Category: 7. Science

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that fought for their food, took one for the team, passed the extraterrestrial sugar, and got lost in an ancient haze.  

First, a story about the spiciest meatball in…

Anacondas are among the largest living snakes in the world. They are typically four to five meters long, though they can occasionally grow up to seven meters. A University of Cambridge-led research has rebuilt ancient anacondas from 12.4…

Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have created an extraordinary set of images showing debris disks in a wide range of exoplanetary systems. These dusty structures reveal where small bodies orbit…

Astronomers have created a groundbreaking discovery of images showing debris…

The universe is a thing of enigma, one that generations of humans have been trying to solve and yet it seems we have not even scratched the surface. While living on Earth, scientists have been reaching out into…

What happens when you’ve created an extraordinarily black fabric? That’s what scientists at Cornell had to figure out once they did exactly that. How do you practically apply something so niche?

The researchers who created a fabric so…

A new scientific review is urging the space sector to rethink the way…

Researchers across the world have identified one of the largest rotation systems ever observed: a colossal cosmic filament composed of dark matter and gas, stretching over 50 million light-years. Within this structure lies a…