Special skin cells give desert geckos from Namibia a neon-green glow. Source: https://www.livescience.com/gecko-fluorescent-green-glow.html
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Image: Cosmic neon lights
This image shows a new type of star that has never been seen before in X-ray light. This strange star formed after two white dwarfs—remnants of stars like our sun—collided and merged. But instead of destroying each other in the event, the white dwarfs formed a new object that shines bright in X-ray light. Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-01-image-cosmic-neon.html…
What is a supernova?
A supernova is a star’s colossal explosion at the end of its life, potentially outshining its entire galaxy. Read about the causes and types of supernovae here. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/definition-what-is-a-supernova…
Metal-poor globular cluster forces astronomers to rethink theories
The discovery of the most metal-poor globular cluster recorded to date has forced scientists to rethink how both galaxies and globular clusters form. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/metal-poor-globular-cluster-ext8-found-in-andromeda-galaxy…
Engineers Have Figured Out How To Make Interactive Paper
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Engineers at Purdue University have created a printing process by which you can coat paper or cardboard with “highly fluorinated molecules.” This then makes the coated paper dust, oil, and water-repellent, meaning you can then print multiple circuit layers onto the paper without smudging the ink. According to a paper the engineers published…
Glowing Blue Waves Lighting Up SoCal Coastline Roll Into the South Bay
Crashing waves emitting a flash of neon blue have lit up darkened stretches of Southern California’s coastline this month, most recently making an appearance in the South Bay. From a report: The sporadic phenomenon — sometimes called sea sparkle — is something scientists have been studying for 120 years. It’s associated with a red tide, or an algae bloom, made up…
Electron-eating neon causes star to collapse
An international team of researchers has found that neon inside a certain massive star can consume the electrons in the core, a process called electron capture, which causes the star to collapse into a neutron star and produce a supernova. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-03-electron-eating-neon-star-collapse.html…
Netflix, Which Spent $100M in Oscars Campaign Alone, Won Just 2 Awards. ‘Parasite’, a South Korean Movie That Cost $11M To Make, Won 4
An anonymous reader shares a report: Around Thanksgiving, it looked like this could have been Netflix’s year to win it all at the Oscars. Critics were heaping praise on the epic scale of Martin Scorsese’s mob movie “The Irishman,” which felt destined to be the streaming giant’s best shot at the elusive best picture trophy. The Los Gatos-based tech company put…
Newly discovered neon-green spider named after the ‘Lady Gaga of mathematics’
Given their coloring, the members of this spider’s family are known as green cucumber spiders. Source: https://www.livescience.com/newly-discovered-math-spider.html
Oldest Material On Earth Discovered
fahrbot-bot shares a report from the BBC: Scientists analyzing a meteorite have discovered the oldest material known to exist on Earth. They found dust grains within the space rock — which fell to Earth in the 1960s — that are as much as 7.5 billion years old. The oldest of the dust grains were formed in stars that roared to life…