Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in…
Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks
New findings from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are challenging a familiar picture…
In 1979, an Australian couple moved to a 10,000-acre island with two babies; 46 years later, their family helped remove three feral pests and completely destock livestock
Flinders island from space. April 1993. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons Most people who buy property look at square…
Saber-Toothed Cats Were A Diseased, Inbred Mess Before They Went Extinct, New Research Suggests : ScienceAlert
Whether waking up to a slobber-soaked ribbon draped across one’s face or an unfortunately massacred mouse ‘gifted’ in…
Urban expansion and the collapse of tropical stream ecosystems
Ruddiman, W. F. The Anthropocene. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 41, 45–68 (2013). Article Google Scholar Malhi, Y.…
AustralianSuper still wary of Musk’s SpaceX months after listing
AustralianSuper has taken a small stake in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with the country’s biggest pension fund wary of…
Vikram’s Lar Gibbon controversy: Actor’s connection explained as Forest Department investigation traces monkey to Erode resident
A video of actor Vikram with a monkey recently went viral on social media, quickly snowballing into a…
We tend to picture glaciers as slow rivers of frozen water, but the Byrd Glacier in Antarctica drains an area larger than California through a gap in the Transantarctic Mountains at up to 800 metres a year, dragging enough ice to raise global sea level measurably if it ever fully released
Byrd Glacier sits at the edge of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and moves. Fast. Radar and satellite…
Rescue teams search for survivors in Indonesia after powerful earthquake | Indonesia
Rescue crews dug through collapsed buildings and landslide debris in eastern Indonesia on Sunday as they searched for…
Ancient Egypt Will Soon Host The Century’s Longest Total Solar Eclipse
Topline Ancient Egypt’s former capital is about to become ground zero for the world’s eclipse chasers. On Aug.…
In 1958, 58 feral pigs were removed from Clipperton Island, helping a seabird colony grow from 650 to more than 137,000
In 1958, Clipperton Island was a very different place from the huge seabird colony it would later become.…
Machine Learning COFFIES “Hears” Sunspots Before We Can See Them
In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these…