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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 …

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 …

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 …

A galaxy billions of light-years across space-time has puzzled scientists since its discovery more than 50 years ago. PKS 1424+240 is a blazar, with a hugely active black hole in its center blasting powerful jets of plasma out into intergalactic space. To qualify as a blazar, a galaxy has to be oriented in a very specific way – with one of …

When the James Webb Space Telescope first came online in 2022, it immediately spotted something astronomers had never seen before: “little red dots” peppering the ancient expanse of deep space, originating from around when the universe was just one billion years old. Ever since, we’ve struggled to explain what these faint signals could be. The prevailing theory is that they’re …

A fisher who recently went out on the Mississippi River in Minnesota ended up spotting a submerged car and evidently helped solve a nearly 60-year-old missing person case, according to authorities and local news reporting. Brody Loch, the fisher at the center of the remarkable chain of events, told the Minneapolis news outlet WCCO that he called authorities after discovering …

Apple’s Hide My Email is a feature that lets users create unique, random email addresses that forward to their main inbox. However, Hide My Email is exclusive to Apple’s ecosystem. If you primarily use Gmail, which many of us do, Hide My Email isn’t directly accessible. Gmail doesn’t have an equivalent one-click alias generator like Apple. It does support plus …

Bloating is one of the most common digestive complaints, yet it’s also one of the most misunderstood. Many people dismiss it as a minor inconvenience after a heavy meal, but for others, it can be a recurring issue that affects daily comfort, self-confidence, and even overall health. The sensation, often described as abdominal fullness, tightness, or excessive gas, can stem …

A Grand Theft Auto 5 content creator believes he has finally solved the infamous Mount Chiliad mystery after 12 years of sleuthing, but some members of the community aren’t convinced. If you’ve played GTA 5 – and there’s a good chance you have – you’ve also likely heard about Mount Chiliad and the notorious UFO Easter Egg associated with it. …

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed many wonders of the early universe, but few discoveries have puzzled astronomers more than some mysterious “little red dots.” These tiny, brilliant galaxies appear scattered across deep space images like cosmic breadcrumbs, challenging everything scientists thought they knew about how galaxies formed in the early universe. These faint, compact objects were completely undetected …