Crab Trapped in Plastic Bottle Survived Two Months at Sea
A large, live swimming crab, Portunus sanguinolentus entrapped inside the bottle. Credit: Hajime Sato / Hiroshima University A…
A Powerful Cosmic Accelerator Has Been Confirmed in the Milky Way
NASA’s Fermi telescope detected GeV gamma rays from LHAASO J1912+1014u, helping confirm it as a proton PeVatron. The…
Trapped like the Salamander in a Japanese folktale, scientists study a crab that grew too big for its bottle
Back in July 2022, a research team from Hiroshima University was carrying out a routine survey about 500…
Matcha may be able to curb hay fever, Japanese researchers say
For some it’s an acquired taste, for others, it’s part-beverage, part-fashion statement. But one thing Japan’s green tea…
Physicists Revive a 19th-Century Theory of “Cosmic Knots” to Help Untangle the Mysteries of Dark Matter and Neutrinos
A long-dismissed idea involving “cosmic knots” could help explain several of the universe’s most perplexing mysteries—including the origins…
New Method Proposed To Detect Universe’s Mysterious “Phantom Heat” Predicted by Einstein
A team in Japan has proposed a clever method to finally detect the mysterious Unruh effect, a predicted…