beans

there are many different types of beans. kidney beans, red beans, even peanuts (not to be confused with the pee nut)! the bean is closely related to the ‘pea’. here are some fascinating facts: 1.it’s a flowering plant 2. it’s more than 9,000...

milestone x-ray burst! by Ethan Kwan

on august 21′ st, 2019, NASA’s NICER telescope on the ISS, observed the largest x-ray burst to date. the flare-up came from SAX j1808.4-3658, a binary system 11,000 light-years away, where a brown dwarf, a failed star to big to be a planet but not big...

wormholes explained (pt 1)

for most of human history, we thought space was a stage, and the planets and stars were just actors. then Einstien came walking along and said “WRONG!” and he made space more like a water bed. the old stage would be hardwood. this space can: A.bend B.torn...