Articles for author: Sumi

10 Mind-Bending Facts About Black Holes That Will Astonish You

10 Mind-Bending Facts About Black Holes That Will Astonish You

Sumi

Black holes sound like pure science fiction: invisible monsters that can swallow stars, bend time, and twist space like a crumpled sheet of paper. Yet they’re very real, and the more astronomers study them, the stranger they become. Even with today’s powerful telescopes and supercomputers, black holes still behave like cosmic riddles that refuse to ...

Quantum Entanglement: How Particles Communicate Faster Than Light

Quantum Entanglement: How Particles Communicate Faster Than Light

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Imagine changing something in your living room and watching the effect appear instantly on the Moon, with no delay at all. That’s roughly what quantum entanglement sounds like when you first hear about it, and it feels almost like science cheating at the rules of the universe. For more than a century, this phenomenon has ...

Ancient Civilizations Possessed Knowledge That Modern Science Is Only Now Rediscovering

Ancient Civilizations Possessed Knowledge That Modern Science Is Only Now Rediscovering

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Every few months, a new study pops up that sounds almost unbelievable: ancient farmers bred crops with surgical precision, builders oriented temples with astronomical accuracy, and doctors in dusty, pre-modern clinics performed procedures that look oddly familiar to a twenty-first-century surgeon. It’s tempting to shrug and say they “got lucky,” but the closer you look, ...

Space-Time Itself Might Be a Fluid, Not a Fixed Canvas for the Universe

Space-Time Itself Might Be a Fluid, Not a Fixed Canvas for the Universe

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Imagine discovering that the stage on which the entire universe performs isn’t solid at all, but more like a strange cosmic liquid that can swirl, ripple, and boil. That’s the wild idea behind the notion that space-time itself might be a fluid, not a rigid, unchanging backdrop. It sounds like science fiction, but serious physicists ...

New York City Races to Help Homeless People as Temperatures Plunge

NYC Intensifies Homeless Outreach After Snowstorm Ushers in Deadly Single-Digit Cold

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Deadly Chill Exposes Vulnerabilities (Image Credits: Unsplash) New York City – A powerful winter storm blanketed the region with up to 10 inches of snow over the weekend, giving way to temperatures that plunged into the teens and single digits and amplifying risks for those living unsheltered.[1][2] Deadly Chill Exposes Vulnerabilities Officials reported at least ...

More people are shoveling their way into the hospital, DC-area doctor says

DC-Area Hospitals Report Rise in Snow Shoveling Injuries

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Emergency Departments See Surge in Cases (Image Credits: Pixabay) Washington region – Emergency rooms across the D.C. area treated more patients for snow shoveling-related issues following a recent winter storm. Emergency Departments See Surge in Cases A local emergency room physician observed a notable uptick in admissions linked to snow removal efforts. Patients arrived complaining ...

Coast-to-coast coral assessment reveals Thailand’s reefs losing complexity

Thailand’s Coral Reefs Confront Huge Crisis in Landmark Nationwide Survey

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Revealing a Nationwide Baseline (Image Credits: Unsplash) Thailand – A comprehensive coast-to-coast evaluation by marine scientists exposed the diminishing structural complexity of the nation’s coral reefs, confirming long-held concerns amid escalating environmental pressures.[1] Revealing a Nationwide Baseline Researchers delivered the most detailed overview yet of Thailand’s coral ecosystems, spanning both the Andaman Sea and Gulf ...

Magnetic avalanches on the sun reveal the hidden engine powering solar flares

Astronomers Trace Massive Solar Blasts Back to Minor Magnetic Shifts

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Solar Orbiter Witnesses a Flare’s Fiery Birth (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission provided unprecedented views of a solar flare’s buildup, exposing how minor magnetic shifts snowball into massive eruptions on the sun’s surface.[1][2] Solar Orbiter Witnesses a Flare’s Fiery Birth On September 30, 2024, the spacecraft approached within 43 million kilometers of the ...