Phenomenon

Shiba Inu faces stiff competition in the volatile crypto market as its value fluctuates, spotlighting opportunities for rivals. Meanwhile, following strategic partnerships, Aptos’s price leap hints at its growing influence. With its unique approach and promising growth prospects, BlockDAG emerges as the top crypto of 2024, attracting investors keen on diversifying with potential market leaders. Shiba Inu’s Wild Ride in the Cryptosphere Shiba Inu has struggled to keep its price above the crucial $0.000025 mark…

Earlier this year, NASA's Terra satellite was zipping over the Gulf of Mexico when one of its instruments snapped a photo of some odd-looking clouds.The clouds looked like someone had taken a hole punch to the sky.This unusual phenomenon isn't new. Researchers have been documenting it since the 1940s, according to NASA. But it wasn't until about 15 years ago that scientists finally found an explanation.The features are officially called cavum clouds, but are sometimes nicknamed hole-punch clouds or fallstreak holes.…

In 1856, an American scientist that history almost forgot, Eunice Foote, discovered the extraordinary ability of a teensy, transparent molecule, carbon dioxide, to absorb heat.From a simple experiment, she rightly deduced that an atmosphere containing CO2 would "give to our Earth a higher temperature" – describing the driving force of global warming and providing a molecular mechanism to earlier musings about what keeps our planet warm.Now, more than 160 years later, scientists have realized there's more to the story.…

Like thousands of French people, Sylvie Pinault discovered comic books during the pandemic. Though bandes dessinées – literally meaning “drawn strips” and often simply referred to as BD or bédé – are venerated in France as the “ninth art”, the 52-year-old had preconceptions about them being for children. That changed at the start of 2020, when her partner suggested they go to the gigantic comic-book festival in Angoulême. The following year, with the country locked down, the limpid cover of Léonie Bischoff’s graphic novel…

NASA’s SDO captured this rare moment of two solar flares erupting at the same time.Gif: NASA/Solar Dynamic ObservatoryNo, you’re not seeing double. The Sun just flung out two massive flares of radiation from opposite hemispheres at nearly the same exact moment, a sign that our host star is fast approaching a period of peak activity.Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie In a rare moment captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory on Monday, two sunspots can be seen erupting simultaneously from the northern…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Democratic backsliding is occurring in an unprecedented number of wealthy countries once thought immune to such forces—the United States among them, finds a new analysis led by Cornell political scientists and published in World Politics. To inform debates about where backsliding is happening—and to highlight…

This artist’s concept portrays the brown dwarf W1935, which is located 47 light-years from Earth. Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found infrared emission from methane coming from W1935. This is an unexpected discovery because the brown dwarf is cold and lacks a host star; therefore, there is no obvious source of energy to heat its upper atmosphere and make the methane glow. The team speculates that the methane emission may be due to processes generating aurorae, shown here in red. Credit: NASA, ESA,…

I often think of Einstein when I see Orry. To put these two proper nouns in the same sentence is unexpected, of course – there’s the ubiquitous recall value of Einstein’s name and there’s the contrast of “Orry? Orry who?” By this I mean that Einstein is remembered for something, even though many might not know what that something is, while no one seems to have yet figured out why Orry is famous. Orry being himself. (Instagram: Orry1) “Einstein’s brain is a mythical object,” writes Roland Barthes in his essay…

In 2024, Perihelion Day occurs on January 3, at 1 UTC (8 pm CDT on January 2), where Earth approaches the Sun approximately 3% closer than during its farthest point, aphelion, in early July. Perihelion Day marks Earth's annual closest approach to the Sun in its elliptical orbit, occurring due to the planet's elliptical path around the Sun. Unlike a perfect circle, Earth's orbit is an ellipse, where the distance between Earth and the Sun varies throughout the year. Perihelion, derived from the Greek words 'peri' (around)…

A team of researchers has uncovered a novel way that molecules can interact non-reciprocally without external forces, through a mechanism involving kinetic asymmetry. This discovery challenges traditional views on molecular interactions and could have profound implications for understanding life’s evolution and designing molecular machines. Credit: SciTechDaily.comScientists have found that molecules can interact in a non-reciprocal manner without external forces, a discovery that could change our understanding of…