What Made This Bizarre ‘Dandelion’ Supernova?
A strange supernova remnant first appeared as a “guest star” seen in 1181 by sky watchers in China and Japan.....»»
Ultra-rare, bizarre fish that washed ashore near San Diego is California"s third this year
Confronted with a jet-black globular fish with razor-sharp teeth, prickly skin and a strange stalk protruding from its head, lifeguards at Swami's Beach in Encinitas, California, immediately knew they had something extraordinary on their hands......»»
Researchers film rare deep sea fish with transparent head
Researchers just captured a rare fish on film, showing off its transparent head and bizarre, upward-looking green eyes in incredible detail......»»
See Little Robots Get Swole in This Virtual "Gym"
The bizarre robots look like cobbled-together Tetris pieces. A new system "evolves" them to run, climb, and throw stuff better......»»
Five weird things that happen in outer space
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know space is weird. But just how weird might surprise you. Space is dominated by invisible electromagnetic forces that we typically don't feel. It's also full of bizarre types of matter that we never experience.....»»
Miley Cyrus serenades Pete Davidson with "It Should Have Been Me" and it"s equal parts hilarious and awkward
If there's an anthem for the broken-hearted, Miley Cyrus has a few, but her cover of "It Should Have Been Me" is now up there.In a bizarre and hilarious turn of events, Cyrus serenaded Pete Davidson with William "Mickey" Stevenson and Norman Whitfiel.....»»
Researchers capture the fastest optical flash emitted from a newborn supernova
A team of astronomers has discovered the fastest optical flash of a Type Ia supernova, and reports a study in Astrophysical Journal Letters published on December 8......»»
Star"s self-destruction is shown in 3D, revealing new details
A 1,000-year-old supernova has been captured in 3D images that reveal yet unseen details of the elements that are ejected when a star explodes. Analysis of data from the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) and X-shooter at the European Southern.....»»
Linux has a serious security problem that once again enables DNS cache poisoning
Bizarre behavior overlooked in Linux for more than a decade revives scary attack scenario. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As much as 38 percent of the Internet’s domain name lookup servers are vulnerable to a new attack that.....»»
Watch Rittenhouse lawyer claim iPad pinch-to-zoom uses AI to fake video footage
Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyer has made the bizarre claim that the pinch-to-zoom feature on iPads uses artificial intelligence “to create what they believe is happening.” You can watch him make this argument in the video below, his unde.....»»
Lenovo working on most bizarre dual-screen laptop concept you’ve ever seen
A new leak suggests that Lenovo might have a brand-new kind of laptop in the works. The rumored ThinkBook Plus has a secondary touchscreen next to the keyboard......»»
Ubisoft is shaming Far Cry 6 players who have given up on the game
Ubisoft is sending out emails to lapsed Far Cry 6 players in a bizarre attempt to make them return to the island of Yara......»»
Promising-looking SETI signal turns out to be of human origin
Space junk may look like a supernova as SETI researchers struggle with a signal. Enlarge / Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth aside from the Sun. (credit: ESA, Hubble, and NASA) Modern human society has been making it.....»»
Astronomers Find Nascent Exploding Star, "Rosetta Stone" of All Supernovas
"A star located 60 million light years away went supernova last year, and astronomers managed to capture all stages of the stellar explosion using telescopes both on the ground and in space," reports Gizmodo. Long-time Slashdot reader spaceman375 sh.....»»
Hubble had a ringside seat to observe a star going supernova
Recently the Hubble Space Telescope observed something very rare: A star in the process of going supernova......»»
Academics recreate supernova reaction in a lab
Researchers in Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group have collaborated with TRIUMF National Laboratory (Canada) to achieve the first direct measurement of a supernova reaction in a laboratory using an accelerated beam of radioactive nuclei......»»
Supernova: A glowing DNA enzyme
Once thought to function primarily as a storage molecule for genetic information, it is now known that DNA can also catalyze chemical reactions. Although such DNA enzymes (deoxyribozymes) have not been identified in nature, they can be isolated in th.....»»
Genshin Impact tweeted (and deleted) a bizarre post about Elon Musk
The Genshin Impact Twitter account started a bizarre community challenge to follow Ella Musk, its Genshin NPC Twitter account......»»
Challenging the big bang puzzle of heavy elements
It has long been theorized that hydrogen, helium, and lithium were the only chemical elements in existence during the Big Bang when the universe formed, and that supernova explosions, stars exploding at the end of their lifetime, are responsible for.....»»
Astrophysicists explain the origin of unusually heavy neutron star binaries
A new study showing how the explosion of a stripped massive star in a supernova can lead to the formation of a heavy neutron star or a light black hole resolves one of the most challenging puzzles to emerge from the detection of neutron star mergers.....»»
Canon"s bizarre new lens lets you shoot VR video with the Canon EOS R5
Canon has announced the world's first lens for mirrorless cameras that can shoot 180-degree VR video. But what exactly does that mean?.....»»