Once you can accept the Universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

— Albert Einstein

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Kissing May Have Evolved 21.5 Million Years Ago in Ancestor of Great Apes and Humans

Scientific American.com - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 2:45pm

Humans and their ancestors have likely been kissing for a very long time

Categories: Astronomy

Massive Study Debunks One of RFK Jr’s Biggest Claims about Fluoride in Tap Water

Scientific American.com - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 2:05pm

Researchers tracked thousands of Americans for decades, finding no links between ingesting recommended levels of fluoride and lower cognitive skills

Categories: Astronomy

Mosquito proboscis repurposed as a fine nozzle for 3D printing

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 2:00pm
When engineers struggled to make 3D printer nozzles narrow enough for their needs, they turned to nature and found the proboscis of a female mosquito had exactly the properties they needed
Categories: Astronomy

Mosquito proboscis repurposed as a fine nozzle for 3D printing

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 2:00pm
When engineers struggled to make 3D printer nozzles narrow enough for their needs, they turned to nature and found the proboscis of a female mosquito had exactly the properties they needed
Categories: Astronomy

Climate heating has reached even deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 2:00pm
The depths of the Arctic Ocean have warmed more than scientists expected. New research has placed the blame on warmer water from Greenland
Categories: Astronomy

Climate heating has reached even deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 2:00pm
The depths of the Arctic Ocean have warmed more than scientists expected. New research has placed the blame on warmer water from Greenland
Categories: Astronomy

The James Webb Telescope May Have Seen the First Stars in the Universe

Scientific American.com - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 1:40pm

Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the universe’s most ancient stars

Categories: Astronomy

We've Long Thought The Surface Area Of A Black Hole Can't Decrease. Now We Have Data To Back It Up.

Universe Today - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 1:15pm

Observations of a merging black hole further supports the Area Theorem of black hole thermodynamics, which states that the event horizon of a black hole produced by two merging black holes must have a surface area no less than the areas of the original two.

Categories: Astronomy

Imagining a future where smart glasses allow 'AI slop' to be avoided

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 1:00pm
In the latest in our imagined history of inventions yet to come, Future Chronicles columnist Rowan Hooper reveals how an ingenious way to avoid being swamped by AI content was invented in the late 2020s
Categories: Astronomy

Imagining a future where smart glasses allow 'AI slop' to be avoided

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 1:00pm
In the latest in our imagined history of inventions yet to come, Future Chronicles columnist Rowan Hooper reveals how an ingenious way to avoid being swamped by AI content was invented in the late 2020s
Categories: Astronomy

Cars are getting bigger. This is a problem for us and for the planet

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 1:00pm
Sport utility vehicles and other larger cars are becoming more and more common, and this is dangerous for our health in many ways. But we have ways to counter "carspreading", says Anthony Laverty
Categories: Astronomy

Cars are getting bigger. This is a problem for us and for the planet

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 1:00pm
Sport utility vehicles and other larger cars are becoming more and more common, and this is dangerous for our health in many ways. But we have ways to counter "carspreading", says Anthony Laverty
Categories: Astronomy

Who finds dad jokes funniest? The answer might not astonish you

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 1:00pm
Feedback is delighted to discover that two academics have taken a scholarly interest in dad jokes, but is unsurprised by their key finding: the people who most enjoy dad jokes are dads
Categories: Astronomy

An ambitious look at quantum physics is fun – but overdoes it a little

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 1:00pm
Attempts to describe quantum physics are rarely enjoyable, but Paul Davies' zeal in Quantum 2.0 sometimes steers too close to hype, finds Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
Categories: Astronomy

Who finds dad jokes funniest? The answer might not astonish you

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 1:00pm
Feedback is delighted to discover that two academics have taken a scholarly interest in dad jokes, but is unsurprised by their key finding: the people who most enjoy dad jokes are dads
Categories: Astronomy

An ambitious look at quantum physics is fun – but overdoes it a little

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 1:00pm
Attempts to describe quantum physics are rarely enjoyable, but Paul Davies' zeal in Quantum 2.0 sometimes steers too close to hype, finds Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
Categories: Astronomy

Meet the Seven Sisters’ 3,000 Lost Siblings

Sky & Telescope Magazine - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 11:13am

The Pleiades star cluster is part of a much larger complex that stretches across the entire sky, a new study shows.

The post Meet the Seven Sisters’ 3,000 Lost Siblings appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

Categories: Astronomy

Why quasicrystals shouldn’t exist but are turning up in strange places

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 11:00am
Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the world’s most extreme environments
Categories: Astronomy

Why quasicrystals shouldn’t exist but are turning up in strange places

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 11:00am
Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the world’s most extreme environments
Categories: Astronomy

Epstein Files Spark Harvard Investigation into Larry Summers

Scientific American.com - Wed, 11/19/2025 - 10:50am

E-mails between Larry Summers and the now deceased financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2018 and 2019 have raised questions about a relationship Summers pursued with a student

Categories: Astronomy