Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?
18 July 2023
What would happen if we pushed a sun-sized ball of water into our star? The Dead Planets Society podcast dives into the possibilities
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26 US states are likely to ban abortion to the fullest extent possible
27 June 2022
After the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade, abortion bans in states such as Louisiana and Tennessee won't include exceptions for cases of rape or incest
How the US response to covid-19 broke its world-class health agencies
28 October 2020
A series of bad decisions and ill-judged policies, coupled with unrivalled political interference, has led to the FDA and CDC losing the trust of the public and scientists
Common dolphins may finally be returning to the Adriatic sea
25 August 2020
The common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) was regionally extinct in the Adriatic Sea for 40 years, but there now appear to be four individuals living in the region
Time travel without paradoxes is possible with many parallel timelines
13 December 2019
Time travel brings up paradoxes that break the laws of physics, but multiple similar timelines running parallel to one another could get around this
Predators may make prey get smart and grow more brain cells
11 December 2019
Predators are a problem for Trinidad’s killifish: in streams where the problem is worst the killifish grow more brain cells, perhaps to help evade the hunters
Samoan government takes drastic measures to fight measles outbreak
6 December 2019
Samoan government employees stopped work to administer measles vaccines in an attempt to halt an outbreak of the deadly disease sweeping the island nation
Black holes formed from dark matter could be making dead stars explode
6 December 2019
White dwarfs are burnt out stars that can explode into supernovae, and this process might be kicked off by a black hole made of dark matter in the heart of the star
Amazon enters quantum computing race with cloud quantum processors
3 December 2019
Amazon has combined three types of quantum computing processors from D-Wave Systems, IonQ, and Rigetti Computing into a cloud service to test quantum algorithms
NASA has found the remnants of India’s Vikram moon lander
3 December 2019
In September, India’s attempted moon landing ended in a crash, but the debris was lost. Now NASA has pinpointed where the Vikram lander smashed down
