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A model who makes millions online was rushed to hospital after one smoke led to mold invading her lungs, nose and ears — with doctors forced to put her on life support.  What began as a seemingly innocent puff soon spiraled into a nightmare for Madelynn May. Curious what it would taste like, the now 23-year-old tried marijuana mixed with …

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For decades there has been this tantalizing idea being pitched of pulling CO2 out of the air and using the carbon molecules for something more useful, like making plastics. Although this is a fairly simple process, it is also remarkably inefficient. Recently Caltech researchers have managed to boost the efficiency somewhat with a new two-stage process involving electrocatalysis and thermocatalysis …

Meet Skydweller: A solar-powered drone that can fly for 90 days straight — it’s wider and 160 times lighter than a Boeing 747  Live Science Source link

That prompted three astrophysicists (Isabelle John, Rebecca Leane, and Tim Linden) to try to look at things in an organized fashion, modeling a “dark main sequence” of stars as they might exist within a close proximity to the Milky Way’s center. The intense gravity and radiation found near the galaxy’s core mean that stars can’t form there. So, anything that’s …

On July 15, a colossal filament erupted from the sun’s northeastern limb, dramatically reshaping part of our star’s surface, albeit briefly, and unleashing a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. The outburst was so powerful that it carved a glowing trench of hot plasma more than 250,000 miles (about 400,000 kilometers) long, roughly the distance from Earth to the moon. …

CNN  —  A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth has sold for a hammer price of $4.3 million to an anonymous bidder at a Sotheby’s New York auction Wednesday. Known as NWA 16788, the meteorite weighs 54 pounds (24.5 kilograms), massive compared with most Martian meteorites, which tend to be small fragments, auction house Sotheby’s …

The Subaru telescope located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawai’i has found a new world within our Solar System, dubbed “Ammonite” by the team who found it. In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf planet, named Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea, was found over …

Mars Isn’t as Red as You Think: A Physicist Uncovers the Real Color of the Red Planet—and the Optical Illusion Fooling Us All  Energy Reporters Source link

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN  —  A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever recorded, according to new research. A team of astronomers discovered the event, dubbed GW231123, when the …