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Don’t Miss: Biohackers on Netflix and a book on social isolation
Medical student Mia gets more than she bargains for in German thriller Biohackers and former US surgeon general Vivek Murthy has a new book about loneliness More
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Science Diction review: The origins of jargon in bite-sized chunks
A podcast called Science Diction looks at the stories behind scientific terms and phrases. Each episode is short and nicely put together, says David Silverberg More
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Seagulls aren’t menaces – they are fascinating and complex creatures
Gulls are often misunderstood. Many people think of them as chip-stealing pests, but that’s just because they haven’t spent the time to get to know them, says Madeleine Goumas More
High-speed gas collisions prevent star birth in galaxies’ bars
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 is one of the most spectacular galaxies in the heavens, but the dramatic bar that pierces its heart produces few if any stars — even though the bar abounds with the raw material for creating them. New computer simulations may explain the paradox in this and other galaxies with […] More
Gravitational waves have revealed the first unevenly sized black hole pair
As far as odd couples go, this is one for the record books. The ripples in spacetime stirred up by two distant, merging black holes suggest that one of the pair was much bigger than the other. It’s the first definitively mismatched black hole pair spotted by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations, which search for […] More
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An AI can tell whether ancient faeces came from a person or a dog
Archaeologists can learn a lot about ancient people by analysing their faeces, but only if they can be sure the remains weren’t left by a dog. Now AI can help More
A weird stellar explosion may have caused the brightest supernova yet seen
The brightest supernova ever seen may be the first known example of a rare type of stellar explosion. The supernova, spotted in 2016 in a galaxy about 4.6 billion light-years away, radiated about 5 sexdecillion (5 followed by 51 zeros) ergs of energy. That’s about twice the amount of radiation emitted by the previous record-holder, […] More
New images of the sun reveal superfine threads of glowing plasma
The sharpest images yet taken of the sun’s atmosphere reveal superfine threads of hot plasma draped across small regions that have appeared rather bland until now. Finding these slender strands is essential for understanding how energy moves around in the sun’s atmosphere, says Amy Winebarger, a solar physicist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in […] More
