Earth’s history of the asteroid bombardment
Approximately 290 million years ago, the intensity of the fall of asteroids on the Earth and the Moon has increased significantly, so called asteroid bombardment, which may be...
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Thawing permafrost is gathering rapid momentum with global warming around the world
Global warming leaves ever more obvious scars in permafrost areas. As a comparative study shows, in all regions with permafrost in the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as on the...
A wandering black hole in the Milky Way
Using an array of ALMA radio telescopes, astronomers tracked the movements of molecular gas streams located 20 light years from the center of the Milky Way, which indicate...
Adam Savage is back, in 'MythBusters Jr.' on Science Channel (Wednesdays 9 pm ET/6 pm PT)
Adam Savage is back with an all-new show, and he’ll be tweeting live during tonight’s MythBusters Jr. on The Science Channel. The episode is named “Battery...
Merger: a science-fiction short about corporations as literal (as well as figurative) AIs
Keiichi Matsuda created 2016’s Hyper-Reality, an amazing, dystopian video about the future of augmented reality; now Matsuda is back with Merger, that plays darkly into...
Riddles of magnetar PSR J1745-2900
In a new study, astronomers analyzed radio pulses coming from the magnetar PSR J1745-2900 – a rotating dense burnt star with a powerful magnetic field – which is...
Black hole or neutron star birth event
ESA’s Integral and XMM-Newton space telescopes, which work with high-energy radiation, helped to find a powerful X-ray source in the center of an unprecedentedly bright...
Brightest quasar of the young universe
Thanks to the duet of the natural lens and the Hubble space telescope, astronomers discovered the brightest quasar J043947.08 + 163415.7 (or J0439 + 1634) in the early...