Forbes

[:es]We’ve known our Universe is expanding for ~90 years, yet unsolved mysteries persist.[:]

[:es]Break out the party hats. Astronomers have all but confirmed that the second known interstellar object is currently whizzing through our Solar System – and unlike the first event, we’ll be able to study it in a huge amount of detail.[:]

[:es]Yeasts, the fungi we use to bake bread or brew beer, are known for their ability to survive in extreme environments. Black yeasts, or black fungi, are even more extreme. Black fungi produce the pigment melanin, which gives them their iconic color and extra protection from a variety of environmental stressors, such as lack of…

[:es]The elusive Planet X — defined as any undetected planet in our outer solar system — may best be directly detected in the cosmic glow of the Big Bang itself. Or so say the authors of a new ‘white paper’ which outlines a means of looking for Planet X via future surveys of our universe’s…

[:es] Far below the ice at the heart of the continent, there appears to be an anomalous hotspot. Something’s cooking the South Pole from below.[:]

[:es]All it takes is one observation, measurement, or experiment that conflicts with the predictions of your theory, and you have to consider revising or throwing out your picture of reality. If you can reproduce that scientific test and show, convincingly, that it is inconsistent with the prevailing theory, you’ve set the stage for a scientific…

[:es]“Supposing that the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an equal volume of closely packed, but uncompressed blueberries, what would happen from the perspective of a person on the surface?”[:]

[:es]The Universe is all there ever was, all there is, and all there will ever be. At least, that’s what we’re told, and that’s what’s implied by the word «Universe» itself. But whatever the true nature of the Universe actually is, our ability to gather information about it is fundamentally limited.[:]