Whales and dolphins (cetaceans) live in tightly-knit social groups, have complex relationships, talk to each other and even have regional dialects — much like human societies. A major new study …read more Source:: Science
Day: October 16, 2017
Bite on this: Alligators actually eat sharks
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•Jaws, beware! Alligators may be coming for you. A new study documents American alligators on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are eating small sharks and stingrays. This is the first …read more Source:: Science
Hubble observes source of gravitational waves for the first time
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•The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed for the first time the source of a gravitational wave, created by the merger of two neutron stars. This merger created a kilonova …read more Source:: Science
Radio ‘eyes’ unlocking secrets of neutron-star collision
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•When a pair of superdense neutron stars collided and potentially formed a black hole in a galaxy 130 million light-years from Earth, they unleashed not only a train of gravitational …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers strike cosmic gold, confirm origin of precious metals in neutron star mergers
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•What many thought would be a long way off, the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron stars, actually happened on Aug. 17. The observation of a …read more Source:: Science