A day on Venus lasts longer than its year. 🌡️ It's Earth's near-twin in size, and the most hostile world in the solar system. Here's what the numbers actually say.
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A day on Venus lasts longer than its year. 🌡️ It's Earth's near-twin in size, and the most hostile world in the solar system. Here's what the numbers actually say.
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Wild finding out of Dresden: a machine used to filter cholesterol from blood also pulled out PFAS ("forever chemicals") and microplastics, and researchers aren't fully sure why yet. 🧬 Early, small-scale results, but it's opening a new question: if pollutants hitch a ride on fat particles in your blood, could filtering fat also filter them out?
Some people really are mosquito magnets and it's not about "sweet blood." 🦟 New research points to your skin's carboxylic acid levels (yep, science can explain that itchy summer mystery). It's mostly genetics + your skin microbiome, and it doesn't budge much no matter what repellent tricks you try.
Ever wonder why one yawn in a room sets off a chain reaction? 🥱 Turns out it's tied to mirror neurons, empathy, and how socially close you are to the person yawning, you're way more likely to "catch" a yawn from a friend than a stranger. Dogs do it with their owners too.
ADHD isn't just 'the kid who can't sit still', an estimated 8.4% of kids and 4.4% of adults meet the criteria, and most affected adults are never diagnosed. 🧠 New post breaks down what it actually is, what causes it, what treatment realistically looks like, and what doesn't work.
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Black holes have a reputation problem. 🕳️ We picture them as cosmic vacuum cleaners, pull everything in, nothing escapes. New observations of a black hole 2.7 kpc away just complicated that story. Astronomers watched it feed on a companion star... and also blast huge amounts of that material right back out into space, through jets and winds, even after it had faded to 1% of its peak brightness. Turns out black holes aren't just swallowing. They're digesting. 🌌 #Astrophysics #BlackHole #Space
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