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Near a walking track in Brisbane, Australia, a group of fig trees can be found sprouting from the soil, their thick, spindly roots and long branches providing shelter for plenty of wild animals who call the area home. Recently, a walker passed by these trees and noticed something odd — there appeared to be a little black blob struggling on …

In an astonishing feat of gravitational sleuthing, astronomers have found a mysterious, dense blob of invisible matter embedded in a galaxy whose light took 7.3 billion years to reach us. Exactly what this blob might be is currently an open question, but it’s absolutely tiny for the distance at which it was detected – just around a million times the …

In the cool waters around Phippsburg, Maine, harbor seals can often be spotted basking on rocks or swimming through their ocean home. But recently, area residents noticed a small seal doing something troubling. He was suckling on a boat propeller, as if mistaking the object for his mother. Marine Mammals of Maine “[He] would swim away and come back, crying …

Artist’s depiction of the Epsilon Eridani system, including the elusive planet Epsilon Eridani b. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook JWST placed new limits on planets around Epsilon Eridani and demonstrated an improved technique for spotting faint signals. In science, a negative finding can be just as valuable as a positive one. Even the most advanced observatories are sometimes challenged by data artifacts, …

A recent discovery in Lake Huron captured the attention of scientists and the public alike after wildlife officials came across what appeared to be a massive, gelatinous blob floating in the water. According to Yahoo News, the find was so bizarre in appearance that it was jokingly referred to as a “cursed gummy bear” by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife …

A recently published study in Geology by Thomas M. Gernon, Sascha Brune, Thea K. Hincks, and Derek Keir provides new insight into an enormous mantle anomaly—a zone of unusually hot and low-density rock—deep beneath New England. This feature, known as the Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), measures approximately 400 kilometers across and lies about 200 kilometers below the Earth’s surface, within …

A tiny blob of gelatinous tissue sitting in a dish represents a giant leap forward in human brain research. Known as an organoid, it’s a living 3D model of a human organ; one of the first to constitute multiple different regions of the brain. Moreover, those regions connect up with each other and light up with neuronal activity, comparable to …

A Russian cosmonaut and his colleague venturing outside the International Space Station (ISS) on a spacewalk were told to ‘immediately’ leave the area after finding a ‘blob’ in space. Astronauts are trained not to panic, but we bet their hearts still skipped a beat or two. In the end, everything went well. And they eventually learned what the ‘blob’ actually …

There’s a giant blob of incredibly hot rock beneath New Hampshire — and it may be part of the reason the Appalachian Mountains are still standing tall, according to new research. It has, however, been slowly moving and is on course for New York in the next 15 million years. This hot rock blob, called the Northern Appalachian Anomaly, or …

Facebook Tweet Email Link There’s a giant blob of incredibly hot rock beneath New Hampshire — and it may be part of the reason the Appalachian Mountains are still standing tall, according to new research. It has, however, been slowly moving and is on course for New York in the next 15 million years. This hot rock blob, called the …