Wooly devil is new plant species discovered at Big Bend

Wooly devil: Fuzzy white leaves and a center to the flower of yellow with pink spikes.

Meet the wooly devil. Staff members recently discovered this new plant species inside Big Bend National Park in Texas. Image via NPS/ D. Manley. New plant species: Wooly devil Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas is home to more than 1,200 species of plants. And now you can add one more to that list. … Read more

Black holes could ‘bend it like Beckham’ to reveal hidden asymmetries of the universe

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called “gravitational waves” that propagate away from colliding black holes, scientists could reveal hidden asymmetries in the universe. The team behind new research on the topic suggests that measuring whether gravitational waves from black hole mergers are right- or left-handed can tell us if the Cosmological Principle — an … Read more

Sols 4391-4392: Rounding the Bend

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