An artist’s impression of high-speed winds, illustrated in white, being ejected from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole. Credit: JAXA. Black holes are objects that are so dense that not ...

Polarized emission has been detected from the largest Lyman-α gas cloud, known as blob 1. This result strongly suggests that such clouds are powered by a central source of ionizing radiation.

The peak months for sargassum invasion are June and July, but blobs of the naturally occurring type of macroalgae have been spotted along our shorelines since March. What is sargassum?

Book of the Week. Robert Macfarlane asks us to imagine that rivers are not mere water for human use, but living beings who should be recognised as such in both imagination and law.

Botflies are flies from the family Oestridae and have the appearance of a bee. Also known as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies, their larvae use mammals as their host. When a botfly egg ...

In this reviews roundup, we take a bite out of Two Spoons’ no-sugar-added ice cream, Harken Sweets’ Lil’ Ones and Sour Blobs low-calorie candy. Two Spoons Creamery uses allulose to sweeten its frozen ...

Alli McCrite reports that she saw gelatinous blobs rain from the sky over her home in Rochester, Wash. on April 8, 2025. While the gooey incident was bizarre, as a local she knew this was not the ...

The 23-year-old, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, went viral for “raising” a blob of blue toothpaste as a pet after it was “born in the sink”. Shao shared multiple steps for ...

A strange atmospheric pattern known as an "omega block" is preventing the usual eastward progression of weather across the U.S. — but what is this weird block, and when will it go away?

The former CBeebies boss who helped move the BBC to Salford has been named the new boss of MediaCity. Music and TV executive Alice Webb will become CEO of the Salford media hub in September and ...

More than three decades ago, tiny blobs of gelatinous goo of unknown origin rained down on the small Grays Harbor community and captured national headlines. The cause of the strange phenomenon ...