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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has delivered its closest and most detailed view yet of the Sun’s atmosphere, revealing the chaotic origins of the solar wind and space weather events that ripple across the solar system. The findings, based on a historic flyby in December 2024, reported by SciTechDaily, are reshaping scientists’ understanding of how the Sun’s activity can disrupt satellites, …

Astronomers have identified what could be a new supermassive black hole, and with an estimated mass 36 billion times that of the sun, it is about 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This would make it among the most massive objects ever detected. The finding, published in the Monthly Notice of the …

“Small and deceptively cute, but definitely not harmless” is how scientists have described a new species of ancient whale, from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on Victoria’s surf coast. This early species, called Janjucetus dullardi, was an extremely unusual animal, said Dr Erich Fitzgerald, senior curator of vertebrate palaeontology at Museums Victoria Research Institute. It was tiny – about the size …

A Mario fan on Reddit believes that they have discovered the official X account for the series upcoming 40th anniversary, which was registered in July 2020. As you may remember, Nintendo did a similar thing and registered an account in July 2020 for Mario’s 35th anniversary. The Gamer website believes this one could be the real deal, but as always …

Four newly described species of tarantula have been given their own genus, thanks to the record-breaking length of their genitalia. Appropriately, they have been named after Satyrs, the Greek mythological part-man and part-animal figures known for their large male genitalia.  “The males of these spiders have the longest palps among all known tarantulas,” says Dr. Alireza Zamani, a researcher at …

Despite the fact that much of the current research in paleontology focuses on trying to find traces of organic remains in fossils, dinosaur DNA has unfortunately never been recovered. A lot of what we know about dinosaurs comes from preserved bones and teeth that are dug out of the ground. These hard tissues alone, however, are limited in the information …

Eating three servings of French fries a week is associated with a 20% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but eating similar amounts of potatoes cooked in other ways — boiled, baked or mashed — does not substantially increase the risk, finds a study published by The BMJ on August 6. What’s more, replacing any form of potatoes with …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Fermi bubbles are two enormous orbs of gas and cosmic rays that tower over the Milky Way, covering a region roughly as large as the galaxy itself. These giant space bubbles may be fueled by a strong outflow of matter from the …

A study published in PeerJ by paleontologists Sven Sachs and Daniel Madzia has reclassified a nearly complete plesiosaur skeleton found in 1978 in Holzmaden, Germany, as a new genus and species. Named Plesionectes longicollum, this Early Jurassic marine reptile had an extraordinarily long neck and unique skeletal features that challenge previous ideas about plesiosaur evolution during the Toarcian stage, about …

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have uncovered evidence suggesting that binary black holes might not be the “lonely wanderers” we once thought them to be. Instead, they could be orbiting a far more mysterious and massive entity—a third compact object, possibly a supermassive black hole. The Role …