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In 2019, LIGO and Virgo detected GW190521—a mysterious gravitational wave that could mark either the colossal merger of two black holes or the tantalizing possibility of a wormhole echo from another universe.
GW190521 could be a single gravitational-wave echo from a wormhole, specifically a wormhole created after two black holes merged in another universe.
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The picture shows the dynamic environment around the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center, featuring the newly discovered gas cloud G2t alongside previously known clouds G1 and G2, whose similar orbits suggest a common origin from the star system IRS16SW.
SpaceMassive binary star system may be feeding the Milky Way’s central black holeJoseph Shavit
SpaceNASA cleanroom fungus could survive a trip to Mars, raising contamination concernsJoshua Shavit
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries deuterium-rich water, pointing to a far colder birthplace than our solar system.
SpaceInterstellar comet 3I/ATLAS points to a far colder planetary birthplaceJoshua Shavit
A sketch of the giant octopus.
DiscoveriesGiant octopuses were the ocean’s apex predators 100 million years agoHannah Shavit-Weiner
Artist's impression of the planet Epsilon Indi Ab, with water clouds atop its ammonia-dominated atmosphere.
SpaceAstronomers find thick water-ice clouds on Jupiter-like exoplanet Epsilon Indi AbJoseph Shavit
These discoveries hint that the area was once submerged, strengthening theories that the site could be linked to the biblical vessel.
DiscoveriesNew scan data of Turkish formation is reviving the Noah’s Ark debateRebecca Shavit
MIT researchers say classical least action can exactly reproduce key quantum behaviors in a new mathematical framework.
DiscoveriesThe strange connection between falling balls and quantum weirdnessShy Cohen
Why walls stop visible light but often let Wi-Fi through comes down to how electrons absorb energy.
DiscoveriesStrange Physics: Why Wi-Fi and radio waves can pass through walls but light can’tJoseph Shavit
On Oct. 25, 2020, NASA’s Curiosity rover snapped a selfie after drilling into a rock called “Mary Anning.” Years later, that sample has delivered the richest mix of organic molecules ever detected on Mars.
SpaceNASA’s Curiosity rover detects never-before-seen organic compounds on MarsJoshua Shavit
In experiments with rice seeds submerged in water, MIT researchers found that the sound of falling droplets shook the seeds out of a dormant state, stimulating them to germinate more quickly than seeds that were not exposed to the same sound vibrations.
Green ImpactSeeds can sense the sound of falling raindrops, MIT study findsRebecca Shavit
A Mexican axolotl in Wake Forest University biologist Josh Currie's regeneration lab.
HealthSalamander gene could hold the key to regrowing human limbsHannah Shavit-Weiner
Long-term genome tracking shows how chronic blood cancers quietly evolve years before patients worsen.
Health25-year-long study discovers how blood cancers evolve and worsenMac Oliveau
The Milky Way is a massive, spiral-shaped collection of stars, gas, and dust that houses our own solar system. Dr Karl Fiteni (inset) led the study. Photo shows the core of the Milky Way as photographed by Joseph Caruana from Dwejra Gozo
SpaceFor the first time, astronomers identify the edge of the Milky Way’s discJoshua Shavit
This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows a series of sedimentary deposits in the Glenelg area of Gale Crater. Gale Crater is a paleolake located close to the putative coastal shelf.
Space‘Bathtub Ring’ points to vast ancient ocean on MarsJoseph Shavit
New COLIBRE simulations show how cold gas and dust help galaxies evolve from the early universe to today.
SpaceCosmic simulations reveal how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of yearsJoshua Shavit
Trapped ions already power quantum computers and the world’s most precise clocks. Now, by merging those strengths, researchers are probing something deeper: time itself behaving as a quantum superposition.
DiscoveriesBreakthrough ion clock experiments reveal that time can go quantumShy Cohen