The strange science behind cat cuteness

Cuteness, it would seem, is one of life’s most endearing evolutionary strategies – and one that felines have hijacked to remarkable levels. For cat lovers, our furry feline friends are akin to our closest companions, and this is reflected in our neurobiology: being close to them triggers activity in the same emotion-processing region of the…

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A neutron star’s weird wind rewrites space physics

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has identified a surprising contrast between the winds blasting away from a disk around a neutron star and those seen near supermassive black holes. The neutron star system produces an unusually dense outflow that challenges current ideas about how these winds form and how they reshape their surroundings….

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