The first artificial sweetener – Sac Charin – was discovered by accident, when in 1879, Ira Rimsen, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, saw a sweet substance on his hand after experimenting with various chemicals in a laboratory. Sac Cherin quickly became very popular, mainly because of how cheap it …
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Strange things are far ahead in the galaxy. According to a new analysis of Gaia satellite data, the closest star cluster to our solar system is currently torn apart – not only by normal processes, but also by gravitational bridges that we cannot see. Astronomers say the disturbance could be …
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Update (24 March 2021): Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCB) is still insisting that there are no flaws in our best model of particle physics. As explained below, previous results comparing the standard M from Dale’s expected collision data created a bizarre discrepancy by almost standard deviations, but we need a …
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The weather crisis is affecting our planet to such an extent that summer in the Northern Hemisphere could last for half a year by 2100, scientists have warned. This does not mean staying in the sun for long periods of time, but has a dramatic impact on human health, agriculture …
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The image above may look like a fairly normal picture of the night sky, but what you see is much more special than just the shining stars. Each of these white dots is an active supermassive black hole. And each of those black holes lifts the material into the heart …
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