The most extreme rogue wave occurred in November 2020, lifting a single buoy off of Canada's British Columbia coast some 58 feet high. Since then, dozens more rogue waves have been recorded (some even in lakes). @ScienceAlert has more on this aquatic phenomenon that was once considered a myth. And if buoys could talk, the one that went for a wild ride would tell you how very real rogue waves are: https://flip.it/AILAJv #Science#Ocean#PacificOcean#Waves#RogueWaves
Earth may have had its own ring system that formed around 466 million years ago, lasting for tens of millions of years. Researchers propose that the ring may have formed after a large asteroid came within our planet's Roche limit — a distance at which the tidal forces of the Earth's gravity begin to pull the rocky body apart. Futurism calls it a “match made in orbit.” Read more: https://flip.it/416XSb #Science#Earth#Space#Comet#Asteroid
A 'golden age' of rat research may be here. What the often unwanted companions can teach us about us.
From NPR: "Rats are one of the most prolific mammals on the planet. Their close, often-fraught relationship with humans have allowed them to spread to pantries, sewers and garbage piles around the world. Domesticated brown rats are a commonly used mammal in laboratories making advancements in medicine and health."
New evidence points to Wuhan market as source of COVID-19 outbreak.
From New Scientist: "A new study by an international team concludes it is more likely that the virus emerged from wild animals sold at the market and not from a lab escape. The researchers re-analysed data from 800 samples collected at the Huanan market by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention beginning on 1 January 2020, and also studied viral genomes from the earliest COVID-19 cases."
A "Shazam for whales" uses AI to track sounds heard in the Mariana Trench.
@newscientist reports: "An artificial intelligence model that can identify the calls of eight whale species is helping researchers track the elusive whale behind a perplexing sound in the Pacific."
Scientists detect longest pair of jets streaming from a supermassive black hole.
AP reports: "The jets shooting hot plasma are the largest ever spotted – about as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up end-to-end. ... The discovery, made using images from a European radio telescope, was reported Wednesday in the journal Nature."
Earth will get a second "mini-moon" for 2 months this year.
CBS News reports on "a small asteroid [that] was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving around Earth in a horseshoe shape from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25."
We always love reading about the "corpse plant." 💀 🌱
From the BBC: "It takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are still unravelling the baffling lifecycle of the titan arum."
Virus that causes paralyzing illness is spiking in the U.S., wastewater data shows.
NBC News reports: "Enterovirus D68 is linked to rare cases of the polio-like illness acute myelitis, or AFM. So far this year, the CDC has confirmed 13 cases of AFM."
A U.S. park ranger wrote about a dropped Cheetos bag in Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. It hit a nerve.
From @outside: "The discarded Cheetos bag attracted all sorts of flora and fauna, namely mold and bugs, and within a day of its discovery, the pile of Cheetos had become a thriving neighborhood for creepy crawlies. Poor park rangers had to spend 20 minutes cleaning up the mess."
"Get ready for a partial lunar eclipse and supermoon, all rolled into one. The spectacle will be visible in clear skies across North America and South America Tuesday night and in Africa and Europe Wednesday morning."
Tech billionaire returns to Earth after first private spacewalk.
From AP: "[Jared] Isaacman became only the 264th person to perform a spacewalk since the former Soviet Union scored the first in 1965, and SpaceX’s Sarah Gillis the 265th. Until now, all spacewalks were done by professional astronauts."
We have some incredibly powerful telescopes that have given us spectacular views and allowed us to look back to the early days of the universe. But what if we could access an even better telescope that already exists? Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into the cosmos. Space.com has more: https://flip.it/yH22Ur #Science#Space#SpaceExploration#Sun#JWST#Telescope
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