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At some point we’ve all regretted taking too long to make a move on that special someone, but at least there’s comfort knowing we didn’t take a quarter of all time that’s ever passed. That’s how long the sexual tension has been building between two slow-dancing supermassive black holes, whose eventual congress could rock the entire universe.Black holes get it on all the time, and who can blame them – they are, after all, so attractive that even the famously flighty light can’t say no. When two black holes are drawn into…

The weak gravitational pull on a particle just half the mass of a grain of sand has been measured for the first time. This most precise measurement of its kind is a breakthrough towards the quantum realm and a potential Theory of Everything.Of the universe’s four fundamental forces – gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces – gravity is the one we’re most familiar with in everyday life, but it’s actually the only one that we can’t currently explain using the Standard Model of particle physics, our…

Panorama of the Bulqizë ophiolite as seen from Batra's valley in Albania. Mining activity can be seen in the valley. Credit: L. Truche A team of geologists affiliated with several institutions in France, working with a pair of colleagues from Albania, has measured the largest natural flow of hydrogen ever in an Albanian chromium mine. In their study, reported in the journal Science, the group measured hydrogen gas bubbling up…

Bargains are on the brains of shoppers as the holiday gift-buying season gets into high gear. And talk about information overload: You’d be hard-pressed to miss the flood of “best deals” lists offering tips on which retailers or brands are slashing prices on goods and services. But what if the nation’s official price tracker, the Consumer Price Index, was used as a bargain-hunting tool? INFLATION TRENDS: What’s up? What’s cheaper? What’s next? CLICK HERE! My trusty spreadsheet looked at the CPI’s 330 expenditure…

Intense, relentless heat waves have become the new normal, fueling climate change and exacerbating droughts and wildfires.June was the hottest month on record, but July is set to be even worse. The beginning of the month was Earth's hottest week on record, per early data from the World Meteorological Organization.Excessive heat warnings and heat advisories now cover over 100 million people in the US, per National Weather Service.The climate in the West is particularly punishing. California's Death Valley could topple the…

Founders of startups will also be measured on governance quotient in addition to intelligence quotient and emotional quotient, Boat cofounder and CMO Aman Gupta said on Saturday. "Apart from other things, Founders need IQ, EQ and GQ. Governance quotient now will become more important than ever and it's good for the ecosystem that Corporate Governance is taken seriously from Day Zero", the startup founder and angel investor tweeted. Angel investor and founder of FemTech startup Sirona, Deep Bajaj feels that startups must…

Astronomers have used James Webb to measure the temperature of a rocky exoplanet known as Trappist-1 b, a new posting from the European Space Agency reports. While the exoplanet is located 40 light-years from Earth, astronomers were able to utilize Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) to detect the temperature of Trappist-1 b.  Using MIRI, the team observed Trappist-1 b’s thermal emission – heat energy that is given off as infrared light. This discovery is extremely notable because it is the first time that…

ARLINGTON, Va.—A Federal Reserve official said he supported the central bank’s plans to continue raising interest rates in quarter-point increments until it is comfortable that inflation will return to the Fed’s 2% goal. Fed officials unanimously approved an increase in its benchmark federal-funds rate of a quarter-percentage point, or 25 basis points, to a range between 4.5% and 4.75%, at the conclusion of their most recent policy meeting on Feb. 1. That increase followed six larger,…

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A bulbous corpse found bobbing off a tiny island in the Azores is the heaviest bony fish ever measured. The record breaker is a bump-head sunfish (Mola alexandrini). Taller than it is long, with a truncated back fin and mushroom-colored skin, the fish weighed in at just more than three tons (2,744 kilograms). This beats out the previous bony fish record holder, another bump-head sunfish caught off the coast of Japan in 1996 that tipped the scales at more than 2.5 tons (2,300 kilograms). Fish lose weight because of water…