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Spend enough time on the internet and you have probably come across the urban legend that if you sneeze with your eyes open, your eyeball can pop out of its socket. Well, you’ll be pleased to have it confirmed that your eyeballs do not pop out of your sockets like champagne corks, even if similarly […]

Last September, DART hit asteroid Dimorphos, the small companion of asteroid Didymos. The impact was a test of planetary defense, showing that we can truly shift the orbit of a celestial body. But it was also a chance to study what an impact on an asteroid looks like. And astronomers did not waste time in […]

Market Overview Diabetic neuropathy is nerve damage caused by diabetes that may present as symptoms such as pain, numbness, and tingling in the extremities. The diabetic neuropathy market consists of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other products used for the prevention and treatment of this condition. The global diabetic neuropathy market is expected to expand in […]

A new animation allows us to get the gist of how sparkly the night sky would look to us in gamma rays thanks to the data collected by NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope in just one year. The visible light that humans can see with our unaided eye is but a small slither of the electromagnetic […]

Market Overview The cardiovascular device market is an exciting and rapidly developing segment of the global medical device industry. This sector encompasses a diverse range of devices used to diagnose, treat, and monitor heart disease and related conditions. The global cardiovascular devices market was valued at USD 56.3 billion in 2022 and is expected to […]

Fancy yourself a code breaker or a technological wiz? If so, you could win $700,000 if you can solve a 2,000-year-old mystery. The former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and a group of scientists are giving away prizes worth a total of $1,000,000, at the time of writing, to anyone who can successfully decipher scrolls recovered […]

Turbulence in a fluid due to the rotation of a body has applications across all realms of science and engineering. It doesn’t matter if you’re focusing on a neutron star or on an airplane engine: turbulence is there, often messing up your nice “simple” equations. There is turbulence also at the quantum level and, like […]

A new emergency alert system is being tested by the UK government on April 23. The alert sound has been shared on Twitter, and it will temporarily block the phone’s functionality until the owner has acknowledged the notification. “A new system that will give the Government and emergency services the capability to send an alert […]

The climate crisis is getting deeper and deeper – but humanity still has a number of options left on the table, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today.  The report can be summed up very simply: the planet is facing big trouble, but solutions are still available.  Advertisement “If […]

Depending on where you are, it’s the equinox today or tomorrow, but what does that really mean? It’s easy to define the solstices; they represent the longest day or night of the year depending on your hemisphere. On the other hand, the definition of the equinoxes is that the equator is pointed directly towards the […]

In Judge C. R. Magney State Park, Minnesota, there is an unusual feature known as the Devil’s Kettle, where the Brule River splits in two around a large rock. While the bulk of the water goes over a waterfall and continues downstream, a significant amount of it travels down into a hole and then…. sort […]

Members of the Sulfurimonas group of bacteria have found a way to thrive in the smoky plumes at the bottom of the ocean, even without other sources of food. These bacteria have a genome beautifully adapted to living in an environment too oxygen-rich for their relatives. These plumes could have counterparts in the depths of […]

Medicine in the 1900s was questionable. It pretty much consisted of hard drugs delivered far beyond reasonable dosages, and for almost any ailment, cocaine or opioids were just the thing you needed. Whether they worked is a long conversation (they didn’t), but one thing is for sure – they looked like a good time.  Perhaps […]

Getting busy in the bedroom may come with some more unexpected risks, one of which is an allergic reaction to semen. Semen is comprised of many components, including sperm cells themselves (aka spermatozoa), water, lipids, carbohydrates, and salts. So, it may not be a surprise that the human body can have an allergic reaction to […]

Since at least the 1930s, residents of and visitors to the valley of Hessdalen, Norway, have reported strange balls of light in the sky above. While it’s easy to dismiss reports as UFOlogy nonsense (especially when some write “papers” questioning whether the lights could actually be wormholes) and some sightings are actually of explainable phenomena […]

The Blob – not the carnivorous ameboid alien antagonist from a schlocky 1950s sci-fi, but something much worse – made headlines between 2013 and 2016 as a massively devastating marine heatwave in the northeastern Pacific. As the waters off the western coast of the US warmed, ecosystems were upended, coral reefs were bleached en masse, […]

Raccoon dogs may have played a pivotal role in the COVID-19 pandemic. The suggestion follows the release of genetic sequences yielded from surface swabs taken at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, back in 2020.  The market has previously been suggested as the starting point for SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen that causes COVID-19, but […]

The last known thylacine died in 1936 and was thought to have taken the species with it. Now, new research is claiming that the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger may not have happened until the 1980s, possibly even reaching the millennium. Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) are held up as one of the great examples of human-driven […]

It was a dramatic week for Venus last week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in Texas. It was revealed that there are likely still active volcanos on Venus, which got people really excited about NASA’s imminent return to Earth’s hellish twin. But then it turned out that almost all the funding for […]

Never one to shy away from hot-button topics, it looks like the creators of South Park have used ChatGPT to write parts of a recent episode that pokes fun at the much-hyped artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. Released on March 9, 2023, the fourth episode of season 26, titled Deep Learning, sees students at South Park Elementary […]