Record-Breaker! Heftiest and Purest 'Failed Star' Identified

Artist's illustration of the newfound brown dwarf SDSS J0104+1535, which is 90 times more massive than Jupiter. The object is the most massive and purest "failed star" known, researchers said. Credit: John Pinfield An ancient brown dwarf is the most massive and purest such "failed star" ever discovered,...

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Rugged Antarctica Shows Its Ice in New 3D Map

Scientists have created a 3D view of Antarctica by combining 250 million measurements taken by the European Space Agency's CryoSat mission between 2010 and 2016. Credit: CPOM  A new three-dimensional view of Antarctica shows off the southernmost continent in all of its rugged glory. Created...

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130-MPH Spring-Loaded Jaws Help These Ants Escape Predators

TRAP-JAW ANTS HAVE an astounding weapon: their mouth. Their spring-stacked jaws are equipped for snapping close as quick as 60 meters/second (134 miles/hr) and can create strengths more than 300 times their body weight. These ants are brutal predators of termites and other little creepy crawlies with...

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Here’s How Burners Can Prepare for the Bugpocalypse

ON WEDNESDAY, SAN Francisco's schadenfreude meter went off the scale when the coordinators of Burning Man affirmed that their site—a desert patch outside of Gerlach, Nevada that they call Black Rock City—is being overwhelmed by bugs. The pictures out of the playa look scriptural, with misty layers...

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Millipede Genitals, Now in Glorious 3-D!

img alt="The Visible Millipede: IT'S BLUE, ITS name is "symbol," and it's virtual. In any case, it's not a 10-foot-tall humanoid outsider; it's another millipede species, and the first to be a "cybertype." Ommatoiulus symbol is the first species to be portrayed utilizing high-determination X-beam microtomography...

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Glowing Tampons Help Detect Sewage Leaks

"YOU DO GET individuals taking a gander at you peculiarly, however the tampon is not that self-evident." That is Professor David Lerner, clarifying what it was similar to direct an examination venture where ladylike cleanliness items were embedded into streams and sewers around Yorkshire, UK. Why?...

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Congress, Don’t Make Us Hitch Rides With Russia. Love, NASA

SATURDAY WILL MARK 1,500 days since the Space Shuttle touched down for the last time. Establishing human spaceflights was constantly expected to be transitory as we made the essential move to another era of rocket, worked by American business bearers. In like manner, paying for seats on Russian rocket...

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