News
- Astronomy
Crumbling planets might trigger repeating fast radio bursts
Mysterious blasts of cosmic radio waves might be due to planets sweeping extremely close to their host neutron stars.
- Animals
Most bats don’t echolocate in broad daylight. Here’s an exception
Egyptian fruit bats in Tel Aviv regularly navigate by sound during midday hours to avoid obstacles and forage, despite their excellent vision.
- Astronomy
A newly discovered planet renews debate about how some giant worlds form
An implosion of gas may have given birth to this young exoplanet, which orbits too far from its star to have been built up bit by bit, researchers say.
