Asteroid 2024 YR4, whirling serenely around the sun, will certainly not hit Earth in 2032 as once feared. But they've run the numbers for the moon, too, and 2024 YR4 looks like it might be trouble after all. With the additional data, experts from ...
Chewbacca may not have gotten a medal for helping to destroy the Death Star, but now at least he has a species named after him. A new species of deep-sea coral, with shiny branches that flow downward like hair, has been dubbed Iridogorgia chewbacca,
A study of digital decay, the phenomenon of websites slowly vanishing from the web, found that 38 percent of the sites that were online in 2013 are now gone. When Online Content Disappears found that 8% of sites from just two years ago are no longer ...
A storm chaser caught this aesthetically pleasing, giant tornado on camera. This tornado was spotted near the town of Clear Lake, South Dakota. It's by far the most beautiful tornado I've seen in a video. The tornado has a vast upper portion that ...
The Whippet is a newsletter from McKinley Valentine of Melbourne, Australia. Each issue is a collection of marvelous miscellany. The most recent issue has a section about people who found out they have large portions of their brains missing despite ...
It's no secret that I love the rock hyrax, that furry potato-shaped mammal with tiny vampire fangs and the strangest "wawa" scream. I thought I knew a lot about them already, but today I hit upon a treasure trove of new information about the weird ...
General Electric researcher C. D. Graham wrote the following Glossary for Research Reports in a 1957 issue of Metal Progress. Thanks are due to The Science Magpie for assistance with the post and to Futility Closet for valuable discussions. It has ...
For the first fourteen years of his life, Viraj Dhanda, who has autism and apraxia, was non-verbal, non-communicative, and assumed to be intellectually disabled. It wasn't until his father, Sumit, experimented with various communication and keyboard ...
Who would have thought that outsourcing your thinking to an unreliable electric box could make you stupid? According to a recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, folks who use AI regularly to help them write essays, books, and ...
Mathematician Eugenia Cheng once attempted to learn Russian, struggling with a particularly difficult letter. . She says. "the session with my teacher went something like this" Me: shTeacher: noMe: shTeacher: noMe: shTeacher: yes!Me: shTeacher: noMe:
Federal data collection on gender improved markedly in 2014 after relevant questions were added to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System and other surveys, and researchers believe about 2.1 million ...
