Ivan Farkas
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Astronomers May Have Found a Planet in The Habitable Zone of The Hottest Star Yet (opens the original)
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Detecting planets outside of our Solar System mostly relies on measuring minute changes in the light of distant stars. If this were akin to finding a needle in a haystack, astronomers would delight. But it's more like distinguishing the glow of a firefly flitting in front of the nuclear brilliance of a hydrogen bomb. Impressively, astronomers have found more than 6,300 exoplanets so far using various methods. They are a diverse menagerie of mouthwatering worlds, including one that seems to be em
Scavengers Stay Healthy By Not Eating Their Own Kind, New Science Suggests (opens the original)
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Nature is a cycle in which nothing is wasted and death leads to life. When an animal dies, it becomes carrion, a source of nutriment that upholds ecosystems. For example, a "whale fall" settling on the seafloor creates a thriving mini-environment for decades. However, these hotspots also pose dangers to the opportunists that feed here, including the risk of pathogen transmission and predation. Accordingly, it has long been suggested that scavengers avoid eating carcasses that are more closely re
Scientists Burned Their Own Scrolls. Then The Hidden Writing Lit Up. (opens the original)
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When Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago, it devastated the nearby Roman city of Herculaneum with scorching gas, ash, and earthquakes that suffocated its streets, toppled masonry, and even turned one man's brain to glass. Much of the city was destroyed, and its people were vaporized, yet its library full of arcane knowledge has been preserved for posterity by the blanketing ash. In 1752 CE, excavations sponsored by the Bourbon kings of nearby Naples unearthed a collection that currently cont
First New Wild Cat Species Identified in Over 100 Years Is An Adorably Tiny 'Tiger' (opens the original)
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It's not every day that a new species is discovered. Nope, that figure is closer to 44 new species per day, on average, as science identifies over 16,000 new organisms per year. Many of these may be insects, arthropods, plants, or fungi, which are all fantastic. But now, we've all been privileged to witness a potentially once-in-a-lifetime discovery: a new cat. Its scientific name is Leopardus tilcayo, and it's the first new living wild cat species described in more than 100 years – since the Ur
A Woman May Have Ruled Ancient Egypt as King 5,000 Years Ago (opens the original)
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Numerous women ruled ancient Egypt in some form or another throughout its storied history, not to mention some action-movie-worthy princesses. Notable names include Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra – seven Cleopatras, in fact. Sifting back through the sands of time, the first queen of Egypt was Sobekneferu, who ruled almost 4,000 years ago. Or so the conventional chronology goes. But Egypt's first woman sovereign may have ruled more than a millennium earlier, potentially making her the earli
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