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Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system (so large, in fact, that some scientists think it might have even consumed other worlds), a gas giant so massive that it shaped the orbits and evolution of the neighboring planets. For decades, scientists thought Jupiter was roughly 4.5 billion years old, forming soon after the birth of our sun. And a …

The Pokémon community has been inundated with news recently, as the launch marketing for Pokémon Legends Z-A is in full swing. A big part of this has been the reveal of new Mega Evolutions, and with the new designs, there’s a growing trend that might actually be proving a certain fan theory correct. If you’re an obsessive Pokémon fan, you …

Physicists have derived a quantum version of Bayes’ rule, revealing how beliefs and probabilities update in the quantum realm with potential applications in computing and beyond. Credit: Shutterstock An international team of researchers has identified a quantum counterpart to Bayes’ rule. The likelihood you assign to an event is influenced by what you already believe about the surrounding conditions. This …

Elizabeth Dawson and Helen BriggsBBC climate and science team Aleksey Maro Understanding more about the diet of wild chimps could help explain human attraction to alcohol Wild chimpanzees have been found to consume the equivalent of a bottle of lager’s alcohol a day from eating ripened fruit, scientists say. They say this is evidence humans may have got our taste …

Kawhi Leonard has made no shortage of headlines in recent weeks. But according to Bill Simmons, the stories may have also come as news to Leonard too. On the latest episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Ringer founder discussed the recent saga surrounding the Los Angeles Clippers star stemming from Pablo Torre’s reporting on an alleged no-show endorsement deal …

Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a key prediction from Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity and began a new era of astronomy. Now, a new gravitational-wave discovery marks the anniversary of this major breakthrough. Published today in Physical Review Letters, it puts to the test a …

Did the Universe have a beginning? Will it eventually come to an end? How did the Universe evolve into what we can see today: a ‘cosmic web’ of stars, galaxies, planets and, at least on one pale blue planet, what sometimes passes for intelligent life? Not so very long ago, these kinds of existential questions were judged to be without …

Trump shares video highlighting discredited theory linking vaccines to autism  PoliticoView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Appendix cancer once had a reputation as one of the rarest forms of cancer. Many were unaware of the condition entirely. And when doctors did encounter it, it was almost exclusively in older people… until now. The number of appendix cancer cases has increased dramatically – but especially among people born after the 1970s, as documented in a recent study. The …

It isn’t pressure or friction that makes ice slippery, but hidden forces at the molecular level. New findings show that dipole interactions disrupt ice’s structure in unexpected ways. Credit: Shutterstock For nearly two centuries, scientists believed that ice becomes slippery because pressure or friction melts its surface. New research from Saarland University overturns this idea. For more than a century, …