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Where does a planet end and a star begin? Webb found a free-floating brown dwarf only about twice Jupiter’s mass, surrounded by a disk of planet-forming material — an object with a planet’s mass that appears to have formed like a star.
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (1201+ words) Webb spectroscopy identifies a roughly two-Jupiter-mass IC 348 member with infrared excess from a disk, while spatial evidence favors star-like formation over planetary ejection....
Google's simulated fruit fly brain 'mines Bitcoin' in web browser proof of concept — FutureBit says real organic neuron miner could have '10x the efficiency of the best silicon 3nm ASICs"
11+ hour, 54+ min ago (204+ words) A project claimed to represent "the first organic neuron Bitcoin miner based on the fly brain" has gone live. Yes, this is a cryptomining project that leans on the fruit fly connectome recently shared by Google. FutureBit, the company behind…...
Strange Seeds Appear to Be Growing Into Massive Black Holes
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (492+ words) Published Sep 20, 2026 8:00 AM EDT For years now, scientists have been puzzled by the existence of “little red dots” first showing up in observations by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. These objects appeared in a region they believe dates to just…...
Scientists outline how spacecraft could reach a nearby black hole within a century
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (1094+ words) A physicist outlines how laser-driven nanocraft could someday reach a nearby black hole and test gravity directly. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / AI-Generated / CC BY-SA 4.0) The idea would require a suitable black hole to be discovered surprisingly close to Earth, along with technologies…...
Black Hole “Burps” May Follow the Same Rule Across the Universe
3+ hour, 11+ min ago (242+ words) ...
Scientists opened a sealed envelope after 10 years. Gravity still didn’t make sense
4+ hour, 3+ min ago (1342+ words) A decade-long NIST experiment has produced a new measurement of the universal gravitational constant that differs unexpectedly from another leading result, deepening a 225-year-old physics puzzle. The discrepancy is tiny, but for one of nature’s most fundamental constants, it is…...
Twenty-two years of X-ray timing suggest the disk around pulsar 4U 1626−67 may have flipped from rotating backward to forward in 2008, turning years of spin-down into spin-up — though the evidence remains indirect.
4+ hour, 1+ min ago (1104+ words) A state-space analysis of 3,340 pulse-frequency measurements slightly favors a retrograde disk before 4U 1626−67's 2008 torque reversal, but a data gap and weak Bayesian odds keep the result indirect....
T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (607+ words) Isotope ratios provide a hint that the giants were actively managing temperatures. For most of the last century, T. rex was pictured as a sluggish, tail-dragging reptile that had to warm up in the sun before it could go anywhere. Then,…...
A 66-million-year-old tooth reveals T. rex was nearly as warm as a human
8+ hour, 38+ min ago (826+ words) Chemical clues preserved inside fossilized T. rex teeth reveal that the dinosaur maintained a body temperature of about 97 degrees Fahrenheit, almost identical to humans. The finding provides direct evidence that the giant predator was warm-blooded, helping explain how it stayed active…...
Scientists Put 200,000 Human Brain Cells on a Chip. Then They Gave Them a Shotgun.
8+ hour, 18+ min ago (482+ words) A player stumbles through Doom, turns toward an enemy and fires. They die a lot, are getting better. That player is …...