Stars change in brightness for all kinds of reasons, but all of them are interesting to astronomers at some level. So imagine their excitement when a star known as J0705+0612 (or, perhaps more politically incorrectly, ASASSN-24fw) dropped to around 2.5% of its original brightness for 8.5 months. Two new papers - one from Nadia Zakamska and her team at the Gemini Telescope South and one from Raquel Fors-Toribio at Ohio State and her co-authors - examine this star and have come to the same conclusion - its likely being caused by a circumsecondary disk.

New research from the International Space Station reveals that in near weightless conditions, both bacteriophages and their *E. coli* hosts mutate in ways not seen on Earth. This unexpected finding not only deepens our understanding of how microbial life adapts to extreme environments but has already yielded practical benefits. Some of the mutations discovered in space dwelling viruses led researchers to create superior viruses that specifically infect and kill bacteria, capable of fighting drug resistant bacterial infections back on Earth.

It's one of political science's most controversial factoids - but can it really be true?

At least its not coming for our brains, but the fungus that created the zombie threatens many other things.

Carpenters, chefs, plumbers, boat handlers, and scientists are all in hot demand.

In order to overcome the challenges posed by climate change, we will need new ways to quickly share ideas and make them freely available.

For a long time, open-world games were all the rage. If you couldn't spend hundreds of hours uncovering every single POI on the same map, then what was really the point?

There are arguments for Resident Evil being an action series, and there are arguments for it being a survival horror series. While elements of both genres are woven through every game, I'm of the opinion that the series ended when they dropped the bomb on Raccoon City. This is where the puzzles died. This is where Leon got buff and gruff. This, to me, is where Resident Evil left the realms of survival horror and, for the most part, became an action series. The fundamentals that made RE so iconic were no more, and Resident Evil became Resident Evil in name alone.Read the full story on PCGamesN: After four hours of Resident Evil Requiem, it could be the return to classic RE I've waited so long for