Gravitational waves have been picked up from the biggest black hole merger yet detected. Scientists say their laser labs sensed the ripples in space-time emanating from this gargantuan collision on 29 July 2017. The event saw two holes, weighing more … Discuss
Author: Spice-Rack-Maker
chocolate caramel tart
Shortly after my husband and I began dating — the dark ages; no seriously, his phone at the time looked like <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=sony+ericsson+phone+2003&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-wuDV8IvfAhUGTN8KHfZUB3wQ_AUIDigB&biw=1440&bih=777#imgrc=mwjJlvSEaUrOUM:">this</a> and I was like whoa, look how fancy you are, dude — we went on a road trip somewhere, stopped at a gas station, and I told him to grab something candy-ish,...
Holiday Decorating for the Irreligious and Talentless
I recently searched on YouTube for “Christmas decorations with natural materials” and found a bunch of crafty people in the U.S. and England. This confirmed my assessment that I’m not one of them. This is as “Christmasy” as my front door will get this season. My goal is really decorating for the winter, so I use...
Spider moms spotted nursing their offspring with milk
On a summer night in 2017, Chen Zhanqi made a curious find in his lab in China’s Yunnan province. In an artificial nest, he spotted a juvenile jumping spider attached to its mother in a way that reminded him of a baby mammal sucking its mother’s teats. On … Discuss
This new atomic clock is so exact, it could be used to detect dark matter
Scientists have invented a new clock that keeps time more precisely than any that have come before. The clock is so accurate that it won’t gain or lose more than one second in 14 billion years — roughly the age of the cosmos. Its ticking rate is so … Discuss