Divers exploring coral outcrops near Kumejima Island in Japan thought they had found novelty props for an aquarium display. Instead, their cameras captured a tiny siphon‑pumping animal whose stark white stripes and dark eye‑like spots looked like a cartoon panda wearing a skeleton costume. The inch‑tall surprise soon went viral in diver forums, and what began as a curiosity post …
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One of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky and the most brilliant planet are on stage in the early morning dawn sky this weekend and will be joined by the moon on Monday morning. The star in question is Aldebaran, a first-magnitude star that shines with a distinct orange hue and marks the right eye of Taurus, …
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For the first time ever, scientists have captured incredible images of an alien star system being born. The image shows the very earliest moments of planet formation, when hot minerals are just beginning to solidify around a distant star, according to a statement. The researchers published their findings July 16 in the journal Nature. Two telescopes worked together to reveal …
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An extraordinary discovery has taken the paleontological world by storm: the first-ever preservation of soft tissues from a giant ichthyosaur. A remarkable fossil, dating back 183 million years, reveals never-before-seen features of the Temnodontosaurus ichthyosaur, providing a stunning glimpse into its life as a top predator in the Jurassic seas. Published in Nature, this groundbreaking find not only opens new …
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An extraordinary discovery has taken the paleontological world by storm: the first-ever preservation of soft tissues from a giant ichthyosaur. A remarkable fossil, dating back 183 million years, reveals never-before-seen features of the Temnodontosaurus ichthyosaur, providing a stunning glimpse into its life as a top predator in the Jurassic seas. Published in Nature, this groundbreaking find not only opens new …
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The Chinese navy’s rail gun has shocked the world. It was mounted on a ship as early as 2018 – the first ever on the planet – and was widely viewed as a coup for China’s future weapon technology. But power has become its curse. When the current is too strong, metal liquefies. Shells are capped at 15kg (33lbs). It …
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A clock built by a team led by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been estimated to be 41 percent more accurate than the previous timekeeping record holder. By measuring the tiny vibrations of a trapped aluminum ion cooled to near absolute zero, the clock calculates seconds with a precision of 19 decimal places. As …
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Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between solar activity and Earth’s magnetic field. When we first got together, we wondered whether our unconventional project, linking space weather and human behavior, could actually bridge such a vast …
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A massive planet trapped in a death spiral around its star could unlock some of the secrets surrounding star systems. However, the fate of this world is not yet set in stone, with two deaths and one “rebirth” possible in its future. The extrasolar planet or “exoplanet” in question is TOI-2109b, which has five times the mass of Jupiter and …
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