Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found previously unseen structures and activity in Jupiter’s atmosphere above the Great Red Spot. These odd features seem to be caused by powerful atmospheric gravity waves. The Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system, twice as big as Earth, and is believed to have been […]
Lunar Graphene Chinese scientists have made an unusual discovery while analyzing the sample Chang’e-5 collected from the Moon’s surface in December 2020. They found naturally occurring “few-layer graphene” for the first time, as state-run news agency Global Times reports, which could have major implications for humankind’s plans to make use of local resources once on […]
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found previously unseen structures and activity in Jupiter’s atmosphere above the Great Red Spot. These odd features seem to be caused by powerful atmospheric gravity waves. The Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system, twice as big as Earth, and is believed […]
Eternal Flame The swirling vortex center of the Milky Way is a weird place, with a supermassive black hole that vacuums up interstellar matter and supernovae torpedoing hapless stars to the edges of our galaxy. Add another strange thing about our galaxy’s nucleus, according to new research: stars that stay young indefinitely by feeding off […]
A family of polar and grizzly bear hybrids, or grolars, in Canada’s western Arctic — which all started with a “pretty strange” female polar bear — is “quite rare,” according to a new study. The research paper, published last week in the journal Conservation Genetics Resources, used a new tool to look at samples from […]
Let’s say you’re putting together a guide titled “How to be a Rochesterian.” Your target audience is people who has moved here recently, drawn by relatively affordable house prices, Abbott’s Ice Cream, garbage plates and friendly people. Right away, you’ve got to train the newcomers on how to pronounce area town names. For that bit […]
Fast radio bursts flash in the sky over Earth. | Credit: NRAO Outreach/T. Jarrett (IPAC/Caltech); B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense, short-lived blasts of radio waves hailing from beyond the Milky Way that can emit the same amount of energy in just thousandths of a second that the sun takes three days […]
Stark Contrast NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a shortcut to steer clear of a path riddled with boulders — and stumbled into a field full of stones the likes of which scientists have never seen before on the Red Planet. On its fourth campaign since landing three years ago, the tireless rover roamed its way […]
The mother of one of the four Hamas hostages rescued by Israeli forces during a special operation over the weekend says her son has described to her “very strange rules” the Palestinian terrorists made him live by. Evgeniia Kozlova told Reuters that her first conversation with Andrey Kozlov after he was freed was “both hard and […]
Donald Trump reportedly called Milwaukee a “horrible city.” The former president is set to be formally crowned the GOP’s presidential nominee there in July. Republicans offered a variety of explanations for Trump’s reported remark. Former President Donald Trump on Thursday reportedly insulted Milwaukee, the site of the Republican National Convention in just a few weeks. “Milwaukee, […]
A startling claim that former President Donald Trump allegedly made Thursday about yearslong political enemy Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her family received a swift debunking from one of the former House speaker’s daughters, who called the presumptive GOP candidate “unwell, unhinged and unfit.” Trump privately met with Washington’s Republican lawmakers in what was labeled […]
The News Nigeria’s president signed into law a bill to change the national anthem, sparking criticism from Nigerians. The “new” anthem returns to a version used from independence in October 1960 until 1978, a year before the first era of military rule ended. The lyrics and music of the former anthem, titled “Nigeria We Hail […]