In 1973, physicist and later Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson proposed a bizarre state of matter: the quantum spin liquid (QSL). Unlike the everyday liquids we know, the QSL actually has to do with magnetism—and magnetism has to do with spin. …
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This bizarre planet could have supersonic winds in an atmosphere of vaporized rock
Scientists think they have identified a lava world so dramatic that it might boast a thin regional atmosphere of vaporized rock where it is closest to its star. Source: https://www.livescience.com/bizarre-exoplanet-supersonic-winds-liquid-and-gas-rock.html
500 million-year-old creature with mashup of bizarre features could be arthropod ‘missing link’
Astonishingly well-preserved fossils of a shrimplike Cambrian arthropod represent a rare chimera. Source: https://www.livescience.com/cambrian-arthropod-five-eyestalks.html
Electric! Astronomers find sprites in Jupiter’s atmosphere
Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission say they have detected sprites or elves – electrical phenomena above thunderstorms on Earth – in the clouds of Jupiter for the first time. Unlike the red-colored earthly ones however, the Jovian ones are blue. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/sprites-or-elves-in-jupiters-atmosphere-lightning-juno…
In the eye of a stellar cyclone: Bizarre secrets of a ticking time-bomb star
While on COVID lockdown, a University of Sydney honours student has written a research paper on a star system dubbed one of the “exotic peacocks of the stellar world”. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-10-eye-stellar-cyclone-bizarre-secrets.html…
Virginia invaded by venomous hairy caterpillars
Authorities have warned residents to steer clear of the pests which have shown up in the east of the state. At a glance this bizarre looking creature,… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/340040/virginia-invaded-by-venomous-hairy-caterpillars…
A mini fractal universe may lie inside charged black holes (if they exist)
In one upside-down, hypothetical version of the universe, a bizarre type of black hole could exist that is stranger than an M.C. Escher sketch: charged black holes. Source: https://www.livescience.com/bizarre-charged-black-holes.html
It took several million years for Arrokothn to acquire its bizarre, pancake-flat shape
The trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, also known as Ultima Thule, which NASA’s space probe New Horizons passed on New Year’s Day 2019, may have changed its shape significantly in the first 100 million years since its formation. In today’s issue of the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research…
Meet the Pi planet. It orbits its star every 3.14 days
In a fun cosmic coincidence, researchers used old Kepler spacecraft data to discover an Earth-sized exoplanet with an orbital period of 3.14 days, a number that matches the mathematical constant pi. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/pi-exoplanet-k2-315b-has-3-14-day-orbit…
13 Scientists Troll Scientific Journal With a Bogus Paper about Earth’s Black Hole
“They’re trolling us… we think. But how the hell did this get published?” asks Popular Mechanics. Slashdot reader worldofsimulacra shares their report: Scientists have uncovered a bizarre, indefensible paper that squeaked through peer review at what appears at first pass to be a legitimate medical journal… 13 listed authors from wildly different fields throw together a series of escalating falsehoods. “Recently,…