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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 …

A vast blob of hot rock moving slowly beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the northeastern US is now thought to be the result of a divorce between Greenland and Canada some 80 million years ago. A study by an international team of researchers challenges the existing consensus in both geographical and chronological terms. It was previously thought the breaking up …

A mysterious ‘hot blob’ is moving towards New York City, leaving scientists puzzled. UK scientists have found a massive ‘blob’ of rock under the Appalachian mountains, and it is headed towards the Big Apple, a study published in the journal Geology claimed. The ‘hot blob’ heading towards NYC was originally thought to have formed 180 million years ago, when North …