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🪐 Astronomers Found Two Giant Planets Less Dense Than Cotton Candy Astronomers have confirmed the existence of two of the puffiest planets ever discovered — gas giants roughly the size of Jupiter, but with densities so low they are less dense than cotton candy. The pair, named TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c, orbit an F7-type star about 1,110 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Volans. Th

🌋 Yellowstone May Not Be Powered by a Deep Mantle Plume After All Yellowstone is one of Earth’s most famous supervolcanoes — and for decades, many geologists explained it with a familiar image: a deep mantle plume, a vertical column of hot rock rising from near Earth’s core, similar to the plume that built Hawaii. A new study in Science suggests a very different mechanism. Researchers built a high

🌞 The Sun Is Waking Up Fast — A Major X-Class Solar Flare Could Happen at Any Moment Solar activity has accelerated dramatically over the past 48 hours, and space weather scientists are watching closely. The number of solar flares has surged from 5 per day two days ago, to 8 yesterday, and 17 within the last 24 hours. This morning, the Sun produced its first M-class flares of the current activity

🔭 Astronomers Have Just Opened a New Map of the Black Hole Universe The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration has released GWTC-5.0 — the largest gravitational-wave catalog ever assembled. It adds 161 new detections from the O4b observing run, bringing the total number of observed gravitational-wave events since 2015 to 390. What began as a handful of almost unbelievable signals has now become a real pop

⏳ Scientists Found a Way to Make Quantum Time Look Like It Runs Backward At our everyday scale, time has a clear direction. Eggs break, coffee cools, and no one has ever un-spilled a glass of water. But at the quantum scale, the story is stranger. Many fundamental equations work just as well forward or backward in time. The arrow of time appears when a system is measured — because measurement rand

🧬 Harvard Built a Silicon Chip That Can Write DNA Using Electricity and Water Writing custom DNA has barely changed in decades. Today’s DNA synthesis relies on phosphoramidite chemistry—a highly effective but solvent-intensive process that depends on hazardous chemicals and specialized manufacturing facilities. Researchers at Harvard have now demonstrated a completely different approach: parallel

🐸 A Frog Gut Bacterium Eliminated Colorectal Tumors in Mice A bacterium found in the gut of Japanese tree frogs has shown a striking anti-cancer effect in mice. Researchers at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) screened 45 bacterial strains isolated from amphibians and reptiles, including Japanese tree frogs, fire belly newts, and grass lizards. One strain stood out: Ew

🤖 NEO Just Got New Hands 25 degrees of freedom. Still far from matching the human hand, of course — but the progress is impressive. The company calls them an “API to the physical world.” https://www.1x.tech/discover/neos-hands #Robotics #NEO #RobotHands #gadget #science