White dwarfs — the superdense, slowly cooling embers left behind when stars like our sun die — are usually quiet cosmic relics. A rare few, however, are anything but. In recent years, astronomers analyzing data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft identified a handful of white dwarfs hurtling through the Milky Way at breakneck speeds of up to 1,240 …
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I used Google’s new AI model to quickly remove the coffee cup from this photo. As expected, an AI image model known as ‘Nano Banana’ that was making a big impression last week is in fact made by Google. The tech giant announced it last night along with its actual name ‘Gemini 2.5 Flash Image.’ “This update enables you to …
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Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming from a nearby galaxy. Observations of this phenomenon, a powerful flash of radio waves that lasts only about a millisecond, could shed light on one of the most mysterious cosmic phenomena ever studied. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, were first discovered in 2007, but their exact sources remain unknown. Since …
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Jupiter holds secrets at its heart that continue to puzzle scientists. The largest planet in our Solar System has what researchers call a “dilute core” – a central region that doesn’t have sharp boundaries like once expected. Instead of a distinct rocky centre surrounded by layers of gas, Jupiter’s core gradually blends into the hydrogen-rich layers above it, creating a …
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Samsung is launching its new Galaxy Tab S10 Lite as a “value-packed” new, more affordable tablet, but the company won’t say what it actually costs. Set to launch to the global market and in the US starting on September 4, the Galaxy Tab S10 Lite is a new tier in the company’s lineup of Android tablets – sort of. The …
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In a new study, scientists began pondering a pretty wild question: What if black holes can convert dead star matter into dark energy, the mystery force driving the acceleration of the expansion of the universe? If so, then it just might explain a multitude of “hiccups” in our models of the universe. This new theory proposes that black holes could …
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A recent study published in the Journal of Human Evolution sheds new light on one of the most enigmatic fossils in human evolutionary history—the nearly complete cranium discovered in Petralona Cave, Greece, in 1960. For decades, this fossil has confounded researchers, with its unique characteristics suggesting that it belongs to the genus Homo, yet it does not neatly align with …
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Paramount Spoilers for the latest episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” ahead. “Strange New Worlds” is showing the beginning of the most important relationship in “Star Trek,” with the series revealing how the bond between Spock (Ethan Peck) and James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) came to be. However, there have been …
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If there is anything to give a shock to the system, it is discovering that Pierce Brosnan is now an actor who can star in a movie about wrinkly pensioners investigating a murder mystery in their retirement home. That is exactly what has happened, and in the blink of an eye, the ‘90s James Bond is now leading the movie …
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A long-misunderstood 1954 quake may reveal Cascadia’s hidden ability to break in unexpected ways. Credit: SciTechDaily.com In 1954, a mysterious earthquake rattled Northern California near Humboldt Bay, puzzling scientists for decades. A new investigation now suggests it originated not in the usual Gorda Plate faults but on the Cascadia subduction interface—the same fault capable of producing a massive magnitude 9 …
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