How heavy can a neutron star get? The physics of neutron stars are almost too fantastic to believe: something the weight of two suns compacted to a sphere the size of a city. Each teaspoon of its material would weigh billions of tons.

Roku LT Operating System open source distribution Article URL: https://blog.roku.com/developer/roku-lt-os Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378495 Points: 7 # Comments: 3

Wetlands loss has increased residential flood insurance claim payments by $10 billion across the US, study finds A new study published in Nature Water finds that wetland loss across the United States has increased residential flood insurance claim payments by more than $10 billion since 1985,...

In nature, there exist structures that are mirror images of each other but cannot be perfectly superimposed. These are known as chiral objects, derived from the Greek word for "hand," since left and right hands share the same relationship.

Violent rocket particles could reshape future spacecraft design When rockets fire into space, the insides of their engines become an extreme environment where temperatures soar and tiny particles are thrown around at hypersonic speeds.

'It was very very good': Ötzi the Iceman's body is covered in ancient yeast — and scientists just used it to make a sourdough A new study cultivated four strains of cold-adapted yeasts that had colonized Ötzi's body shortly after his death 5,300 years ago in the Alps.