University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066...

Ars Technica

Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated - Ars Technica

Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech
A mysterious earthquake deep below northern Utah had scientists scratching their heads back in 1979. The rumble seemingly occurred f… [+2925 chars]

Scientists have a new analysis of a mysterious and highly unusual earthquake detected deep below northern Utah back in 1979.

Futurism

Scientists Investigate Strange Rumbling Beneath Utah - Yahoo News New Zealand

Mercury will appear farthest from the sun in its current evening apparition on June 15.

Space.com

Catch Mercury shining at its best on June 15 before it slips back into the sun's glare - Space

Apollo astronauts trying to rest on the way to the Moon kept noticing the same thing in the dark. With the cabin lights down and their eyes adjusted, they saw brief flashes and streaks of light, dots… [+5184 chars]

Apollo astronauts trying to rest on the way to the Moon kept noticing the same thing in the dark. With the cabin lights down and their eyes adjusted, they saw brief flashes and streaks of light, dots and lines that no one else could see and that were not ther…

Space Daily

Apollo astronauts trying to sleep on the way to the Moon kept seeing flashes and streaks in the dark, and the cause turned out to be cosmic rays from deep space passing straight through their eyes. - Space Daily

Neptune is definitely the odd one out of the gas giants. It's tilted at a strange angle, and its moons are completely different from any other gas giant we know of.
A new paper by researchers at Cal… [+3791 chars]

Neptune is definitely the odd one out of the gas giants.

ScienceAlert

A Strange Moon Orbiting Neptune May Be The Sole Survivor of an Apocalypse - sciencealert.com

Written in the 1860s, Jules Verne’s novels "From the Earth to the Moon" and "All Around the Moon" were highly speculative fiction in their time, but tell a tale that now seems remarkably familiar: three astronauts in a conical capsule on a free-return traject…

How Jules Verne predicted the Artemis 2 mission to the moon almost 160 years ago - Space

For centuries, scientists have been hunting for an invisible glue that many believe holds our cosmos together. They have yet to observe this "dark matter," but there are convincing signs it exists; t… [+5861 chars]

Scientists suggest dark matter may collide with itself, creating dense cores that could help solve three persistent mysteries of the universe.

Popular Mechanics

A Bizarre New Form of Dark Matter Could Uncover the Mysteries of Gravity—And Our Universe - Yahoo

Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and CNSI (California NanoSystems Institute), led by Professor Aydogan Ozcan, introduced a snapshot 3D image projection system that integrates a d… [+4436 chars]

Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and CNSI (California NanoSystems Institute), led by Professor Aydogan Ozcan, introduced a snapshot 3D image projection system that integrates a digital encoder with a passive diffractive optical decoder, j…

Phys.Org

Light-programmed system projects 28-layer 3D images in single shot - Phys.org

Digital matching platformsfrom professional networking to ride-sharing and accommodation servicesadd value by bringing supply and demand into balance. But deep-seated asymmetries can prove difficult … [+5871 chars]

Digital matching platforms—from professional networking to ride-sharing and accommodation services—add value by bringing supply and demand into balance. But deep-seated asymmetries can prove difficult to expunge, causing platforms' functionality and productiv…

Is 'gender gating' the secret to success in online dating? - Phys.org

The team, led by researchers in Switzerland and Austria, says the current rate of slowdown is unprecedented in at least 3.6 million years. To estimate ancient day lengths, scientists analyzed the che… [+1101 chars]

Melting polar ice subtly lengthens days and disrupts precise timing

Newser

Global Warming Is Tinkering With Time - Newser

"We were totally amazed when we noticed this mass and size range of planet formation."

'We were astonished': Millions of exoplanets could be born near active supermassive black holes - Space

The Apollo astronauts who tracked Moon dust back into their cabin kept filing the same odd report. Fresh lunar dust, they said, smelled like spent gunpowder. The impression was immediate, and it was … [+5156 chars]

The Apollo astronauts who tracked Moon dust back into their cabin kept filing the same odd report. Fresh lunar dust, they said, smelled like spent gunpowder. The impression was immediate, and it was reported by multiple crews. Yet the smell never survived the…

The Apollo astronauts who carried lunar dust back into the cabin kept making the same strange report — fresh Moon dust smelled like spent gunpowder — yet the smell never survived the trip home, and more than fifty years later no one has fully explained wh - Space Daily

When Scott Jurek won the Western States 100-mile endurance run seven consecutive times, he was eating a fully plant-based diet, and the detail he kept returning to in interviews and in his memoir Eat… [+8853 chars]

Plant-based athletes from Scott Jurek to Patrik Baboumian consistently describe the same first change: not raw strength, but the ability to train hard on back-to-back days. The recovery-window shift shows up in inflammation markers within weeks and compounds …

Athletes who go plant-based consistently report the same first change before any strength gain — they can train hard again the next day, and the next, and the cumulative effect over months is enormous - Space Daily

Beneath the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, in the Malheur National Forest, a single honey fungus has been spreading through the roots of the forest for thousands of years. It now covers nearly ten… [+5382 chars]

Beneath the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, in the Malheur National Forest, a single honey fungus has been spreading through the roots of the forest for thousands of years. It now covers nearly ten square kilometres. Most of it is invisible. What you see at…

Beneath Oregon’s Blue Mountains, a single honey fungus has been spreading through the roots of the forest for thousands of years, now covering nearly 10 square kilometres. Mostly hidden underground and betrayed at the surface by dying trees and season - Space Daily

A team of scientists has uncovered what may be one of the largest hidden geological structures on Earth a continent-sized "megastructure" buried deep beneath Antarctica.
It's so massive, in fact, th… [+2152 chars]

The discovery, published in Nature Geoscience, reveals one of the largest deep-Earth structures ever mapped on the continent.

Surfer.com

Antarctica’s Hidden ‘Megastructure’ Stuns Scientists With Continent-Size Scale - Yahoo

If you really want to understand something, merely reading a sentence about it won’t cut it. We need the “who,” the “what,” the “when,” the “where,” and the “why.”
So we invite everyone who enjoys i… [+333 chars]

If you really want to understand something, merely reading a sentence about it won’t cut it. We need the “who,” the “what,” the “when,” the “where,” and the “why.”

Boredpanda.com

“Here To Explain Everything”: 92 Facts And Stories You Might Not Have Heard Of Before - Bored Panda

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, opening a new radio astronomy frontier. A hydroxyl megamaser is a natu… [+8617 chars]

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, opening a new radio astronomy frontier. A hydroxyl megamaser is a natural space laser, and this one is located in a violently merg…

South African telescope detects record‑breaking signal from the early universe - Phys.org

Its 2134, and humanity has finally embraced green technologies while ridding the Earth of harmful fossil-burning technologies, most notably gasoline, wood, coal, and oil. As a result, soot has been r… [+3992 chars]

It’s 2134, and humanity has finally embraced green technologies while ridding the Earth of harmful fossil-burning technologies, most notably gasoline, wood, coal, and oil. As a result, soot has been rendered obsolete, and all commercial products from soot, in…

Universe Today

JWST Finds Exoplanets Choked by Diesel Smog - Universe Today

Detached sea cucumber tissue was found to survive and keep regenerating for years in ordinary seawater. The discovery highlights a remarkable regenerative ability that could help scientists better un… [+5924 chars]

Detached sea cucumber tissue survived, healed, and grew for years in natural seawater, revealing a remarkable new model for regeneration and biomedical research.

SciTechDaily

This “Zombie” Sea Creature Keeps Growing After Being Cut Apart - SciTechDaily

Summary: Researchers unmasked a hidden metabolic mechanism that explains why advanced maternal age (AMA) impairs female fertility and reduces the success rates of assisted reproductive technology (AR… [+9440 chars]

A new study reveals that age-related autophagy decline blocks embryo development by triggering a lipid-burning crisis.