The Hungry Quasar

Get ready to chow down on some serious comfort food! This seasonal menu has got it all - classic flavors, velvety textures, and presentation that's almost too cute to eat (almost).

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Panera Bread has got you covered with their new holiday menu, featuring take-and-heat group meals that'll be the star of your ugly sweater party and sweet bakery treats to satisfy your sugar cravings. It's like a present in a pan (or on a plate... same diff!).

The city has gone wild for "Nuts"!

Here's a summary: New research suggests that some galaxies and stars might be too feisty for dark matter to work its magic. It turns out that certain systems have orbits that would decay too quickly if they were surrounded by dark matter, which makes it seem like dark matter isn't the culprit behind their observed motions after all.

Galaxies are like stubborn roommates - they only want to move in if the place is just right! In this study, scientists used a fancy computer simulation to figure out what makes galaxies form and grow. It turns out that having cold, dense gas around and being in a cozy little neighborhood (a.k.a. a concentrated halo) helps spark galaxy formation - and it can even happen as late as when the universe was just 2 billion years old!

A team of superheroes (okay, scientists) created a super cool framework called RTA-DP that can handle gazillions of pieces of data streaming in real-time! It's like a superhero cape for your computer, allowing it to process and analyze all the data quickly and efficiently. Plus, it has fancy monitoring features so you can keep an eye on everything happening behind the scenes!

Cultivated meat startups claimed they'd save the planet and our taste buds from animal-based foods. But, it turns out, they're still using a gazillion gallons of water and energy to make their lab-grown burgers. Who knew fighting climate change would be so...expensive?

I visited the Good Housekeeping Institute's Kitchen Testing Lab and met Nicole Papantoniou, the queen of all things kitchen-related. She showed me the inner workings of a place where they test dishes from fancy schmancy restaurants to weird cat food (just kidding... or am I?). Let's just say it was a real hoot seeing how they put everyday products to the ultimate test!

The food industry is slowly getting its digital game on, with AI helping to whip up recipes and make meal planning a breeze. But let's be real, we're not quite at the point where robots are taking over kitchen duties just yet (although that would be pretty cool).

The universe's ultimate game of cosmic ping-pong - gravitational waves! For the past 10 years, scientists have been detecting these space-time ripples, which were first spotted in September 2015 by LIGO. It's like the universe is playing a game of tag with tiny distortions in space, and we're finally able to detect them after all these years!

NASA and Blue Origin are opening up the party invitations for journalists again! They're launching a mission called ESCAPADE (try saying that three times fast) to study the solar wind's shenanigans around Mars, because who doesn't love a good space mystery?

Space agencies got together to talk about being good space neighbors! NASA and friends gathered in Australia to iron out the details on how to be kind to each other while exploring the moon, Mars, and beyond - think "space etiquette"! It's all part of the Artemis Accords, because even astronauts need guidelines for responsible space travel.