Take one minute to watch a video of a system of 3 galaxies – called SDSS J0849+1114 – all orbiting each other a billion light years from Earth. Each galaxy contains a supermassive black hole, which are circling each other, about to collide. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/sdss-j08491114-3-black-holes-due-to-collide…
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Could This Contaminant Be Causing the Mysterious Vaping-Related Illnesses?
For weeks, officials have searched for what could be causing a string of vaping-related respiratory illnesses across the country. Now, they may have found a clue. Source: https://www.livescience.com/vitamin-e-oil-linked-vaping-related-lung-illnesses.html
Apple Has Copied Some of the Most Popular Apps in the App Store For its iPhone
Developers have come to accept that, without warning, Apple can make their work obsolete by announcing a new app or feature that essentially copies their ideas. Some apps have simply buckled under the pressure. The Washington Post: Clue, a popular app women use to track their periods, has risen to near the top of Apple’s Health and Fitness category. It could…
A Clue To the Reason for Women’s Pervasive Car-Safety Problem
Women are far more likely to suffer serious injuries in a car crash. From a report: The danger divide was first quantified in a 2011 study out of the University of Virginia, which found that for men and women who wore seatbelts, women were nearly 50 percent more likely to be seriously or fatally injured in a crash. And now it’s…
Can You Beat The World’s Worst User Interface?
Design firm Baggar writes:
A user assumes certain actions to be in a certain place or color because interface designers worldwide have been collaboratively educating users and feeding them these design-patterns. But what happens if we poke all good practice with a stick and stir it up? What if we don’t respect our self-created rules and expectations, and do everything the other…
Video: Watching solstices and equinoxes from space
See how sunlight falls on Earth’s surface during the solstices and equinoxes, and get a better understanding of why Earth’s tilt causes the seasons. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/watching-solstices-and-equinoxes-from-space…
Iridescent cloud? Or circumhorizon arc?
It’s easy to confuse these 2 elusive, colorful, beautiful daytime sky phenomena. How can you tell the difference? Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/iridescent-cloud-circumhorizon-arc-how-to-tell-difference…
The tell-tale clue to how meteorites were made, at the birth of the solar system
April 26, 1803 was an unusual day in the small town of L’Aigle in Normandy, France – it rained rocks. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-tell-tale-clue-meteorites-birth-solar.html…
Exomoons may be home to extra-terrestrial life
Moons orbiting planets outside our solar system could offer another clue about the pool of worlds that may be home to extra-terrestrial life, according to an astrophysicist at the University of Lincoln. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-exomoons-home-extra-terrestrial-life.html…
Physicists discover new clue to planet formation
An international study led by the Monash School of Physics and Astronomy has discovered the first observational evidence for the existence of circumplanetary discs. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-physicists-clue-planet-formation.html…