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.....»»
Baldur’s Gate 3 patch revealed via a bizarre escape room livestream
Baldur's Gate 3 is getting a brand new patch, which was announced via a strange escape room livestream......»»
New type of massive explosion explains mystery star
A massive explosion from a previously unknown source—10 times more energetic than a supernova—could be the answer to a 13-billion-year-old Milky Way mystery......»»
Researchers examine properties of supernova SN 2012au
An international team of astronomers has performed photometric, polarimetric and spectroscopic observations of the Type Ib supernova SN 2012au. Results of this comprehensive study deliver important information regarding the properties of this cosmic.....»»
Did lead poisoning cause downfall of Roman Empire? The jury is still out
A new video from the American Chemical Society revisits longstanding academic debate Ancient Rome’s emperors did some pretty bizarre stuff—bursting into uncontrollable fits of laughter, appointing a horse as a priest, dressing in anima.....»»
Zuck Celebrates $1 Trillion Valuation, Dismissed Antitrust Suits With Bizarre Flag-Waving Instagram Post
"Make America weird again," quipped CNBC, describing Mark Zuckerberg's Instagram post today commemorating America's national Independence Day holiday MarketWatch explains: Yes, that's the Facebook Inc. chief executive wakeboarding while holding an.....»»
A fast-expanding Type Ia supernova exploded in NGC 474, study finds
Using ground-based facilities, astronomers from China and elsewhere have conducted extensive optical photometric and spectroscopic observations of the supernova SN 2017fgc, which exploded in the galaxy NGC 474. Results of the study, published June 23.....»»
A New Type of Supernova Unlocks Old Stellar Mysteries
The discovery of a rare “electron-capture” supernova provides crucial insight for understanding the Crab Nebula......»»
Video: How lead (maybe) caused the downfall of ancient Rome
Ancient Rome's emperors did some pretty bizarre stuff—bursting into uncontrollable fits of laughter, appointing a horse as a priest, dressing in animal skins and attacking people ... the list goes on......»»
Newly discovered supernova may be same type as the one observed in 1054
SN 2018zd meets all the criteria for an "electron-capture" supernova. Enlarge / Las Cumbres Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope color composite of the electron-capture supernova 2018zd (the large white dot on the right) and the host starburst.....»»
New crab species with asymmetrical reproductive units identified
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the University of the Ryukyus has recently identified and described a bizarre new genus and species of xanthid crab found on Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Named Mabui.....»»
DNA test kit saves thousands of Earth"s most bizarre turtles
Using a rapid DNA testing toolkit developed by FIU researchers, Colombian officials stopped an illegal shipment of 2,200 Matamata turtles and returned them to the Orinoco river basin......»»
Scientists tap supercomputing to study exotic matter in stars
At the heart of some of the smallest and densest stars in the universe lies nuclear matter that might exist in never-before-observed exotic phases. Neutron stars, which form when the cores of massive stars collapse in a luminous supernova explosion,.....»»
Study on bizarre rodent genetics solves a mystery and reveals another
Open up Scott Roy's Twitter bio and you'll see a simple but revealing sentence: "The more I learn the more I'm confused." Now the rest of the scientific world can share in his confusion. The San Francisco State University associate professor of biolo.....»»
The Bizarre Story of the Man Who Invented Ransomware in 1989
Slashdot reader quonset writes: To this day no one is sure why he did it, but in 1989 a Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist named Joseph Popp mailed out 20,000 floppy discs with malware on them to people around the world. At the time he was doing.....»»
The bizarre story of the inventor of ransomware
Eddy Williems was working for an insurance company in Belgium back in December 1989 when he popped the floppy disc into his computer......»»
Microsoft restores Outlook after a bizarre bug affects users for hours
Microsoft 365 users experienced issues with Outlook making email text vanish on May 11. The company has now issued a fix......»»
How one founder realized the potential of sustainable energy stored deep below our feet
On this week’s Found podcast, we sat down with Dandelion co-founder and President Kathy Hannun. Kathy came up with the idea for Dandelion while working at Google X, tackling some of the world’s most intractable problems, and making them t.....»»
Supernovae twins open up new possibilities for precision cosmology
Cosmologists have found a way to double the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions—one of their tried-and-true tools for studying the mysterious dark energy that is making the universe expand faster and faster. The results from the.....»»
FAST detects 3D spin-velocity alignment in a pulsar
Pulsars—another name for fast-spinning neutron stars—originate from the imploded cores of massive dying stars through supernova explosion......»»
A superluminous supernova from a massive progenitor star
Stars greater than about eight solar-masses end their lives spectacularly as supernovae. These single-star supernovae are called core collapse supernovae because their dense cores, composed primarily of iron at this late stage of their lives, are no.....»»