Astronomers discover giant ‘bridge’ and record-breaking tail hidden between two dwarf galaxies
Astronomers have discovered a giant, almost invisible bridge of gas, about twice as wide as the entire Milky Way, connecting a pair of distant dwarf galaxies. The neighboring objects also share a record-breaking galactic tail that is more than 15 times as long as the galaxy is wide. The dwarf galaxy pair NGC 4532 and […]
Astronomers discover a skyscraper-sized asteroid hidden in the sun’s glare – and it’s moving at a near-record pace
Astronomers have discovered a 700-meter (2,300-foot) wide asteroid hidden in the sun’s glare. This asteroid is hurtling through the solar system at a near record-breaking pace. The skyscraper-sized asteroid, named 2025 SC79, orbits the sun once every 128 days and has the second-fastest asteroid orbit in the solar system. It is also the second known […]
Google develops breakthrough ‘Quantum Echoes’ algorithm for quantum computers – runs 13,000 times faster than supercomputers
Scientists at Google have created a new algorithm that can solve problems on quantum processors 13,000 times faster than the world’s fastest supercomputers. They say this brings them one step closer to using quantum computers in drug discovery, materials science, and many other scientific applications. Researchers say the new algorithm, called “Quantum Echoes,” is a […]
Study finds you don’t need to be too happy to avoid premature death from chronic disease
Happiness is known to be correlated with improved health. But now researchers have identified a threshold of well-being above which people are less likely to die prematurely from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. By comparing data from 123 countries over 15 years, researchers pinpointed the threshold at which mortality rates decline […]
Diagnostic Dilemma: Toddler Accidentally Eats Neisseria gonorrhoea from a Laboratory Dish
Patient: 3-year-old boy from San Antonio, Texas What happened: The patient’s mother worked as a microbiology laboratory technician, and part of her job included visiting doctors’ offices to collect lab dishes of clinical samples collected from patients. One day, while on patrol, she put her son in her car, according to a report on the […]
Plants self-organize in a ‘hidden order’ that mirrors patterns found in nature
Scientists have discovered a “hidden order” in the earth’s drylands. There, plants follow a chaotic hyperuniformity. This arrangement appears random and chaotic when viewed up close, but from a distance it follows a clear pattern. The discovery explains phenomena such as West Africa’s “tiger bush,” where bands of plants look like tiger stripes when viewed […]
James Webb telescope reveals chaotic surprises of the early universe
Just like the infants of the universe, galaxies in the young universe were messy and difficult to settle down, a new study shows. Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have observed more than 250 galaxies in the early universe. The researchers charted the movement of gas long ago when the universe was […]
‘Illegal’ metal detector uncovers vast Roman treasure trove in Germany, kept hidden for eight years
A German man discovered a Roman treasure containing hundreds of silver coins, a gold ring, a gold coin and several silver bars, but he didn’t do it legally. A man first discovered the 2,000-year-old treasure in 2017 using a metal detector near the village of Borsum in the Hildesheim district of Lower Saxony in northwestern […]
New research reveals why time seems to pass faster as we get older
Scientists may be getting closer to understanding why time seems to pass faster as we get older. And brain scans of people watching old Alfred Hitchcock shows have helped address this persistent question. In a study published September 30 in the journal Communications Biology, scientists extracted data from the Cambridge Center for Aging Neuroscience (Cam-CAN), […]
Super bright Comet Lemon’s tail is temporarily torn off by solar wind
Striking new photos of the super-bright Comet Lemon (C/2025 A6) show the partial remains of its giant tail, shortly after its ghostly limbs were briefly torn off by the sun. The shredding of space occurred just days before the comet was scheduled to make its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday (October 21). According to […]