Black hole jets, which spew near-light-speed particle beams, can trigger nearby white dwarf stars to explode by igniting hydrogen layers on their surfaces. In the recent work — set to publish in The Astrophysical Journal and is currently hosted on the preprint server arXiv — the team studied 135 novae Read more…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil on Monday alleging the company carried out a “decades-long campaign of deception” in which the oil and gas giant misled the public on the merits of plastic recycling. The complaint accuses the company of using slick marketing and misleading public Read more…
SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starship missions to Mars in two years. Earlier this month, Musk had said that the first Starships to Mars would launch in two years “when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. The CEO on Sunday said that the first crewed mission timeline will Read more…
The government of Bhutan is currently holding over $828 million in bitcoin. Unlike most governments, Bhutan’s BTC does not come from law enforcement asset seizures, but from bitcoin mining operations, which have ramped up dramatically since early 2023. Crypto intelligence firm Arkham highlighted the Kingdom of Bhutan’s bitcoin holdings on Read more…
Industrial civilisation is close to breaching a seventh planetary boundary, and may already have crossed it, according to scientists who have compiled the latest report on the state of the world’s life-support systems. Ocean acidification is approaching a critical threshold, particularly in higher-latitude regions, says the latest report on planetary Read more…
An international team of scientists published a peer-reviewed paper Thursday saying genetic evidence indicates the coronavirus pandemic most likely originated with a natural spillover from an animal or animals sold in a market in Wuhan, China, where many of the first human cases of covid-19 were identified. The paper, which Read more…
Scientists in Brazil found microplastics in the brain tissue of cadavers, according to a new study published Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open. Mounting research over the last few years has found microplastics in nearly every organ in the body, as well as in the bloodstream and in plaque Read more…