An curved arrow pointing right. Astronomers have been perplexed for 15 years about Lyman-Alpha Blobs, giant clouds of shining light in space. Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes ...

Unlike the sci-fi monster, this Blob didn’t come from outer space. This marine heatwave that was first detected in 2013 and was formed due to an area of persistent high-pressure over the Pacific ...

and references a 1958 sci-fi film “The Blob”, starring a gelatinous space alien that consumes everything. As education secretary, Michael Gove adopted it “with a slight twist”, wrote ...

For instance, the network’s Pectra Upgrade — which aims to significantly change how Ethereum allocates blob space — is scheduled for this year. “The plan is simple: scale Ethereum as ...