Has Jupiter been hitting the treadmill? The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller, thanks to — not a cardio routine — but more precise measuring. Read more from
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Sometimes the findings of a scientific experiment take time. This one started in 1927, when physicist Thomas Parnell filled a closed funnel with the thickest-known fluid: pitch. It won’t take as much perseverance to read the 380-word story. The livestream is another story. Here’s more from @:
Sometimes the findings of a scientific experiment take time. This one started in 1927, when physicist Thomas Parnell filled a closed funnel with the thickest-known fluid: pitch. It won’t take as much perseverance to read the 380-word story. The livestream is another story. Here’s more from @:
Who says all news is bad news? @ challenges us to not smile at the year’s best feel-good stories from the science world. “City Killer Asteroid Probably Won’t Hit Earth” is a good one to start with. Read on:
It's not often a scientist says “Kablooey!” But that's the word a U.S. Geological Survey volcanic expert used to describe a muddy eruption at Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone National Park. Read more (and watch the explosion) at Phys.org:
Ever since the Unit Four reactor at Russia's Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only moved in but survived, adapted, and appeared to thrive. Scientists recently found the evidence clinging to the interior walls of one of the most radioactive buildings on Earth. @ScienceAlert has more:
Dark matter cannot be seen, touched or detected. But the hunt for the Universe’s most enigmatic material just might be over. @sciencefocus has more on a new analysis of 15 years of data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope that claims to have caught a glimpse:
With the demand for human donor organs outracing supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited pig organs can bridge the gap. In one case, a man in Massachusetts lived with a pig's kidney for a record nine months. Read more from @WIRED: