During a Tidal Disruption Event, some stellar debris is flung outward at high speeds, while the rest falls toward a black hole, where it heats up to millions of degrees and generates a distinct X-ray flare.

It is impractical to process imagery captured by flying lower than 100 meters above the ground.

It’s 36 hours after the polls closed and we still don’t know who won Maine’s Democratic primary for governor.

We'd be right about there, according to a website called Ancient Earth globe. Look at plate-tectonic-shifted Africa and Europe. Plus: No icecaps, so the oceans were a lot higher. I learned about it in this article from Kottke.org.

When you breed in fresh water, live in salt water, and have to travel between them in order to reproduce, there are three times as many environmental problems that can hurt you.

If there's any medical advance that the New Hampshire public would love to see right now, it's a Lyme vaccine, as bacteria-carrying ticks sweep over the landscape - and not just in New England or just the U.S.. I suspect even anti-vax folks would find an excuse to get...