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Somewhere, out there, lurking in the Universe, is a whole bunch of matter we haven't been able to find. And it's not a trivial amount, either. Roughly 70 to 80 percent of all mass is considered to be the mysterious stuff known as dark matter. Normal matter makes up the minority. That's everything we can detect – all the stars, planets, black holes, dust, gas, moons, people.

A Glow in Jupiter's Night Could Be The Smoking Gun Signal For Dark Matter

Editor's note: This article was originally published on November 17, 2022. It has since been updated. Black holes have long fascinated both scientists and the general public. While scientists grapple with finding new information about these regions in our universe, we all are forever fascinated by this concept of science. In a revolutionary experiment, scientists have successfully created a black hole replica, potentially answering several key questions about this cosmic phenomenon, according to Science Alert.

Scientists created a black hole in a unique lab experiment, then it started to glow

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It’s the local example of a common and powerful phenomenon that might even be why we’ve never encountered aliens.

Why Do We Always See The Same Side Of The Moon?

The upper atmosphere above the gigantic storm is a lot more exciting than we thought.

Peculiar, Unexpected Structures Discovered Floating Above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

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The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a snapshot of two massive asteroids colliding in a nearby star system — and it could teach us about how common solar systems like our own are.

James Webb telescope reveals 'cataclysmic' asteroid collision in nearby star system


Every now and again, serendipity gives us a unique window into times long past.
An explosive volcanic eruption that took place in prehistory is one of them. As the ash from a pyroclastic flow during the Cambrian age was dumped on a shallow marine environment, its population of ancient arthropods called trilobites were preserved almost instantly – including any soft tissues that are normally degraded or destroyed during other fossilization processes.



					
			

Now, hundreds of millions of years later, those unfortunate animals have given us an unprecedented record of their three-dimensional anatomy, along with any smaller creatures that happened to be clinging to...

Never-Before-Seen Trilobite Anatomy Preserved by Pompeii-Like Ash in Morocco

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Professor Brian Cox has come up with a hilarious reason as to why aliens haven't yet made contact with Earth.It all started when Cox turned to X/Twitter with his bemusement at how the 1977 interstellar probe Voyager could be fixed remotely from Earth. His tweet was met with some comedic responses, comparing it to modern-day problems. "Meanwhile, the printer that's 3 feet from my laptop won't connect," one person humoured, while another chimed in: "It is amazing, and with a tiny amount of power. If we could get that comms team working on train wifi." However, the physicist and musician...

Professor Brian Cox believes this is the reason we haven't yet heard from aliens

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Long COVID is a brutal illness without a known mechanism or cure. Far from being psychosomatic in nature, a new study adds weight to the idea that this misunderstood disease is very much biological.
The lingering toll the SARS-CoV-2 virus exacts on the immune system is widespread and hiding in plain sight, argue researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, CellSight Technologies, and Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center.
When 24 patients who had recovered from COVID-19 had their whole bodies scanned by a PET (positron emission tomography) imaging test, their insides lit up like Christmas trees.
A radioactive drug called...

COVID's Hidden Toll: Full-Body Scans Reveal Long-Term Immune Effects

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Of all the places you can get stung by a bee, the eyeball has to be one of the most unfortunate spots. A rare case study from Wills Eye Hospital in the US state of Philadelphia details the horrifying story of a 55-year-old man who got a barbed bee stinger stuck in his right eye.

Horrific Bee Sting Leaves Barbed Stinger Hiding in a Man's Eyeball

The Moon passes 0.3° north of Neptune at 5 A.M. EDT. Roughly half a day later, at 5:53 P.M. EDT, the Moon reaches Last Quarter as it slowly wanes from Full to New. We’ll catch up with Neptune in the morning sky later this week. Tonight, with no Moon to interfere, let’s visit the constellation Cygnus, high in the east a few hours after sunset, to check out the North America Nebula, also cataloged as NGC 7000.

The Sky This Week from June 28 to July 5: Catch some cosmic fireworks


A detailed comparison of  COVID-19 cases has finally provided insight into why some individuals have yet to endure so much as a sniffle from a  virus that brought much of the world to its knees.



					
			

Based on an analysis of the genetic activity in the nasal tissues and blood of people with unsuccessful  SARS-CoV-2 infections, a team of researchers led by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and University College London in the UK has discovered a novel immune response that provides a robust front-line defense.
While vaccines and their boosters have radically reduced the risk of death and severe complications...

World-First Experiment Reveals Why Some People Never Get COVID-19

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A rare light eruption from a dead star could possibly be visible this summer on Earth, scientists say.

‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ explosion expected to happen over summer, NASA says


A  black hole discovered lurking in the Cosmic Dawn is just way too big to easily explain. Sitting at the center of a galaxy called J1120+0641, it tips the scales at well over a billion Suns' worth of mass.



					
			

Bigger  black holes exist all around us today. The problem is the when of J1120+0641's existence. At less than 770 million years after the  Big Bang, it's hard to figure out how the black hole had the time to gain that much mass.
We've known about the galaxy and its overstuffed black hole for more than a decade, and scientists...

This Mysterious Black Hole at The Dawn of Time Weighs a Billion Suns

It's possible our movement through the galaxy may affect our climate.

Encounter Between Sun And "Something Outside The Solar System" May Have Dramatically Cooled Earth


As extreme storms, floods, fires, droughts, cold snaps, and heat waves hit us harder and more often than ever, more than half of our planet is predicted to shift into new climate zones by the end of the century.



					
			

A new interactive map, The Future Urban Climates, allows you to explore how your home's climate will be impacted.
Using data from the Intergovernmental Panel on  Climate Change (IPCC), University of Maryland spatial ecologist Matthew Fitzpatrick matches 40,581 places around the globe to nearby locations currently experiencing their future predicted climate in 2080.
For example, a trip to northern Mississippi today would allow...

This New Map Reveals The Predicted Future Climate Where You Live

For many, catching SARS-CoV-2 means an unpleasant few weeks of aches, coughs, and fatigue. In roughly one in every five cases, however, the discomfort endures for months on end. What puts some individuals at greater risk of an acute infection lingering as long COVID has been far from clear. A...

The Risk Factors For Long COVID Have Finally Been Revealed

Some truths about the Universe and our experience in it seem immutable. The sky is up. Gravity sucks. Nothing can travel faster than light. Multicellular life needs oxygen to live. Except we might need to rethink that last one. In 2020, scientists discovered a jellyfish-like parasite that doesn't have a...

This Is The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive


Will the shenanigans of Saturn never end? Scientists have found that the ringed planet sports a massive, seasonal energy imbalance across its globe.
The discovery marks a turning point in our understanding of weather and climate on gas giant planets, their long-term evolution, and the ongoing changes.



					
			

"This is the first time that a global energy imbalance on a seasonal scale has been observed on a gas giant," says physicist Liming Li of the University of Houston. "Not only does this give us new insight into the formation and evolution of planets, but it also changes the way we should think about...

A Huge Imbalance of Energy Has Been Detected on Saturn

The outer solar system is a vast and mysterious place that could be harboring hidden objects we know almost nothing about — from the elusive Planet Nine and baby black holes to interstellar visitors and "planet killer" asteroids.

8 strange objects that could be hiding in the outer solar system

NASA scientists have just identified mysterious shapes flying above the Earth but, don’t worry, this doesn’t mean that aliens are about to strike.Using an imaging instrument called the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD), the experts uncovered strange X and C shapes, which have been cropping up in surprising places at surprising times.The researchers found the structures dancing around the ionosphere – the area where Earth’s atmosphere meets space – and say that the discovery could help improve radio communications and space weather forecasts.The ionosphere – which sits around 50 to 400 miles (roughly 80 to 644 kilometres)...

NASA scientists discover strange structures hovering above Earth

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We Finally Know What Turned on The Lights at The Dawn of Time

We finally know what brought light to the dark and formless void of the early Universe. According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space...

We Finally Know What Turned on The Lights at The Dawn of Time

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