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Typically solitary creatures, octopuses aren't exactly neighborly when fellow cephalopods encroach on their personal space, even if it means turning just about anything in reach into a weapon.In a recently published study by a team of researchers in Australia, the US, and Canada, observations of wild octopuses casting shells and sand directly at other members of their species have raised questions over whether this unusual behavior is a deliberately antisocial act – or if passers by are accidentally in the line of…

When it comes to the size of black holes, there’s a conspicuous gap in the middle. Astronomers have discovered dozens of small ones and tens of gargantuan ones, but only a handful of midsize ones. Now, researchers have added another potential midsize black hole to the pile, and it’s ravenous: In a distant dwarf galaxy, astronomers have caught this cosmic beast in the act of devouring a star and spewing out brightly glowing crumbs. If more such untidy eaters can…

Underwater video cameras have recorded over 100 instances of gloomy octopuses hurling silt and shells at one another in Jervis Bay, Australia.Star Wars: Shatterpoint Announcement Trailer02:27The First Things To Do In VR, Part 3Today 9:39AMThe video footage—about 24 hours’ worth—was captured in 2014 and 2015, but only now have the videos been fully analyzed. The team of researchers that studied the behavior has published their findings today in Plos One.The gloomy (or common Sydney) octopus (Octopus tentricus) is native to…

Semiconductor whiz Gerald Yin left the U.S. and spent 18 years in China building what he said would be a worldwide powerhouse in chip-making equipment. Now the American citizen’s lifework has been thrown into uncertainty as U.S. restrictions undermine the global industry integration he celebrated. Mr. Yin’s company, Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc., or AMEC, had been making big strides and was gunning for industry leaders based in the U.S. and Japan when Washington stepped in. Decades younger…

A Jeep Compass SUV driven by AM Ariff, who is a Member of Parliament from Kerala’s Alappuzha district was recently involved in an accident. The politician was admitted to a nearby hospital with minor injuries after the accident. The videos from the spot of the accident reveal that, AM Ariff was lucky to have escaped the accident with only minor injuries. Another thing that we noticed in the videos that the car that was driven by the legislator has multiple horns under the bonnet. It should be noted that installing loud…

The last screams of light emitted by a dying star have been preserved in a series of eerily beautiful images, slowly echoing across the cosmos.The Hubble Space Telescope has captured in spectacular detail the flash of light that followed a massive star going supernova in 2016, as the glow spread outward over a period of more than five years.The resulting animation of stitched-together images is a treasure trove of information about the evolution of dying stars, and the dust surrounding the supernova in its home galaxy of…

By NASA October 30, 2022An image of the Sun “smiling” was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on October 26, 2022. Credit: NASA/SDOSay cheese!On October 26, <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory…

The Ministry of Civil Aviation has ordered officials to submit a report after a Bengaluru-bound IndiGo aircraft aborted take-off at the Delhi airport as one of its engines caught fire. “Concerned officials at @DGCAIndia have been directed to look into this and furnish a report at the earliest,” the Ministry said in a tweet on Friday. The flight was carrying 177 passengers and seven crew members. Officials said that the Delhi to Bengaluru IndiGo flight 6E-2131 aborted its take-off and a full emergency was declared at the…

It's a classic nightmare. You think you're having a cheeky, sneaky pick-and-flick (or lick, although you probably shouldn't), only to find you've been caught on hidden camera, knuckle-deep up your own nostril.In this case, though, the nose-picker is an aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), a primate so adept at discretion that this is the first time we've seen it digging for nasal nuggets and feasting on the fruits of its labor.Moreover, it uses its preternaturally long middle finger for the task – reaching, scientists…

In a shocking incident, filmmaker Kamal Kishore Mishra was caught on camera running over his wife. Amboli police have registered an FIR against the director for running his car over his wife’s legs in the parking lot of their residential apartment in Andheri (West) in the wee hours of October 19. #WATCH | Case registered against film producer Kamal Kishore Mishra at Amboli PS u/s 279 & 338 of IPC for hitting his wife with a car.She claims after the incident she suffered head injuries.We're searching for accused.…