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In our ongoing search for <keyword id="582933" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="alien-life" source="Orion">alien life</keyword>, astronomers have scoured the cosmos, longing for a connection beyond our own world. While the dream of encountering intelligent beings remains distant, we might just have chanced upon a planet that mirrors our own with uncanny familiarity.<br /><br />In a remarkable revelation, astronomers have pinpointed a potentially habitable Earth-like exoplanet merely 40 light-years away, with temperatures only slightly higher than those on our planet.<br /><br />This intriguing new world, named <keyword id="21786745" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Gliese-12-b" source="keywords">Gliese 12 b</keyword>, completes an orbit around its star every 12.8 days. Comparable in size to Venus and only slightly smaller than Earth, it boasts an estimated surface temperature of 42°C, cooler than most of the 5,000-plus confirmed exoplanets (planets outside our solar system).<br /><br />The key question now is its atmosphere. It might harbour an atmosphere like Earth’s, a nightmarish greenhouse scenario akin to Venus, or perhaps an entirely unique composition not observed within our solar system.<br /><br />Unravelling its atmospheric mysteries could unveil whether <keyword id="21786747" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Gliese-12" source="Orion">Gliese 12</keyword> b is capable of sustaining temperatures suitable for liquid water. This, in turn, would be indicative of its potential to harbour life. This discovery could also offer insights into why Earth and Venus, despite their similarities, have evolved to house such different environments.<br /><br />NASA has underscored the significance of Gliese 12 b, highlighting it as one of the select few Earth-like exoplanets deserving of closer examination. Described as “the nearest, transiting, temperate, Earth-size world located to date,” it stands as a prime candidate for further exploration by the <keyword id="145694" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="James-Webb-Space-Telescope" source="Orion">James Webb Space Telescope</keyword>.<br /><br /><div type="image" title="Gliese 12 b vs Earth" msid="110383855" hostid="261" sizebytes="23944" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;This artist&amp;#39;s concept compares Earth with different possible Gliese 12 b interpretations, from one with no atmosphere to one with a thick Venus-like one.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div><br />Gliese 12 b orbits a cool red dwarf star named Gliese 12, located almost 40 light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The star is about 27% the size of our sun and has a surface temperature around 60% of the sun’s. <br /><br />The implications of this discovery extend beyond the confines of a single exoplanet. It has the potential to reveal whether most Milky Way stars, which are categorised as cool stars, can host temperate planets with atmospheres, which would make them habitable.<br /><br />Fascinatingly, the proximity between Gliese 12 b and its host star amounts to just 7% of the distance separating Earth and the sun. Consequently, the exoplanet receives 1.6 times more energy than Earth and experiences approximately 85% of Venus's solar radiation.<br /><br />This proximity also means the planet's surface temperature depends heavily on its atmospheric conditions. While estimates place Gliese 12 b's temperature at 42°C, Earth, in contrast, maintains an average surface temperature of 15°C.<br /><br />Reflecting on these discoveries, Larissa Palethorpe, co-lead of the research and a doctoral student at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, remarked: “It is thought that Earth's and Venus's first atmospheres were stripped away and then replenished by volcanic outgassing and bombardments from residual material in the solar system.<br /><br />“The Earth is habitable, but Venus is not due to its complete loss of water. Because Gliese 12 b is between Earth and Venus in temperature, its atmosphere could teach us a lot about the habitability pathways planets take as they develop.”<br /><br />This paper has been published in the <em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</em> and can be accessed <a href="https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/531/1/1276/7679807" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />

Earth 2.0? Astronomers have discovered the nearest-yet potentially-habitable planet with Earth-like temperatures!

<p>Everyone has a few favorite pieces of <keyword id="40674" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trivia">trivia</keyword> they keep on file, and they're best when they're the kind that make people scoff, demand proof, and reach for their smartphones.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1l2omq/what_is_one_fact_that_sounds_like_bullshit_but_is/">recent Reddit thread</a> asked users for their favorite fact that "sounds like bullshit but is actually true." </p>
<p>They all sound completely ridiculous, but the facts bear them out.</p>
<p>Here are some of our favorites. Sources or additional reading provided when they weren't by the <keyword id="334157" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Reddit">reddit</keyword> users. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p>Via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1l2omq/what_is_one_fact_that_sounds_like_bullshit_but_is/cbvh1n2">Reddit user xRyNo:</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Death rates in boxing exploded after the introduction of the boxing glove. Almost nobody ever died bare knuckle boxing because head punches often resulted in broken hands, so nobody used them."</p>
<p>Sourced from a <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/muhammad-ali-vs-bruce-lee-who-would-win-and-other-sporting-questions-767122.html">2007 article in The Independent</a>, though <a href="http://ejmas.com/jcs/jcsart_svinth_a_0700.htm">another study disputes it.  </a>  </p>
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<p><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source">Ethan Miller/Getty Images</p><p class="caption">A non-fatal fight between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto</p></div></div></p>
<p>Via Reddit user CaptainNoBoat:</p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span class="s1">"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champawat_Tiger">One tiger</a></span> killed 430 people.</p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;">That tiger killed more people than 300 years of worldwide shark fatalities.<span class="s2"><br /> </span>- More people than snakes, bears, wolves, and spider fatalities <em>combined</em> in the U.S. in the last 100 years.</p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;">One tiger."</p>
<p class="p1">He's referring to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champawat_Tiger">Champawat Tiger</a>, active mostly in the 19th century, and eventually shot in 1907 by legendary hunter Jim Corbett.</p>
<p class="p1"><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/robryb/2073342441/">Flickr/RobRyb</a></p><p class="caption">Not the Champawat Tiger</p></div></div></p>
<p class="p1">Via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1l2omq/what_is_one_fact_that_sounds_like_bullshit_but_is/cbv9bue">Reddit user ma_petite_choufleur</a></p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;">"Mammoths were lumbering around Russia* 3600 years ago.</p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;">The Egyptians were making pyramids 4000 years ago."</p>
<p class="p1">*The original post referred to Siberia, but the last surviving mammoths were the small mammoths of Wrangel Island, which is in the Arctic Sea to the north. They may have died out <a href="https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/2015">as late as 1650 BC.</a>  </p>
<p class="p1"><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source">Tim Boyle/Getty Images</p></div></div></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Via </span><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1l2omq/what_is_one_fact_that_sounds_like_bullshit_but_is/cbvbbrl">Reddit user --wasp</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">:</span></p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;">There is a planet that is covered in burning ice. Not dry ice. Ice, but it's incredibly hot. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_436_b"><span class="s1">It is called Gliese 436 b</span></a>. Its surface is at a constant 800ºF, but the ice remains as ice because the gravity of the planet is so incredibly powerful that it compresses all of the water vapour into a solid state. It is actually called <a href="http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/ice_x.html"><span class="s1">ice-ten/ice X</span></a>.</p>
<p class="p1"><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Gliese-436-b.jpg">Wikimedia commons</a></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Via Reddit </span><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1l2omq/what_is_one_fact_that_sounds_like_bullshit_but_is/cbv92ir">user Eagle1388:</a></p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;">"There is a measurement of radiation exposure called "The banana equivalent dose"...bananas are naturally radioactive because they are high in Potassium-40 isotopes."</p>
<p class="p1">A dental X-ray, for example, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15288975">delivers about 50</a> "banana equivalent doses." </p>
<p class="p1"><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22280677@N07/2730965982/">Flickr/oatsy40</a></p></div></div></p>
<p class="p1">Via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1l2omq/what_is_one_fact_that_sounds_like_bullshit_but_is/cbvc7m6">Reddit user somnicule:</a></p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>"Anosognosia is when someone has a stroke or another kind of brain injury, which leaves them with some disability (e.g. the inability to move their arm), and also leaves them incapable of believing they have that disability.</span></p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>The bullshit part? Squirting cold water into the left ear temporarily enables them to acknowledge the disability - for about 10 minutes."</span></p>
<p class="p1">Read more about how the treatment works <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7497101">here</a></p>
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<p class="p1">Via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1l2omq/what_is_one_fact_that_sounds_like_bullshit_but_is/cbvaous">Reddit user Noxate:</a></p>
<p class="p1">"The grandsons of tenth US President John Tyler (born 1790) are <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/01/president-tyler-grandson-alive.html"><span class="s1">still living</span></a>."</p>
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<p class="p1"><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WHOportTyler.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></p></div></div> </p>
<p class="p1">Via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1l2omq/what_is_one_fact_that_sounds_like_bullshit_but_is/cbvcx9m">Reddit user VLHACS:</a></p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;">"14 years before the Titanic sank, a fictional story was written by a man named Morgan Robertson. In the story, the ship was described as the largest ever built at the time (same as the Titanic), it was also woefully short on lifeboats, and it also struck an iceberg and sank. The ship in the story was also a triple screw propeller liner, and it was named the Titan."</p>
<p class="p1">The book, <a href="http://io9.com/5900083/the-novella-that-predicted-the-wreck-of-the-titanic">titled "Futility"</a> was apparently reissued after the Titanic sank with same changes. </p>
<p class="p1"><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RMS_Titanic_3.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p>Via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1l2omq/what_is_one_fact_that_sounds_like_bullshit_but_is/cbvbq3w">Reddit user bigbare:</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Theodore Roosevelt watched his mother die from typhoid fever then went upstairs in his home to watch his wife die from child birth an hour later. This all happened on Valentine's Day and was Theo's 2 year anniversary of getting engaged to his wife.<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"</span></p>
<p>It was <a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/theodore-roosevelts-wife-and-mother-die">February 14th, 1884</a>, he was 25. In his diary that day, <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/at0054.2s.jpg">he wrote</a> simply that "The light has gone out of my life."   </p>
<p><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T_Roosevelt.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></p></div></div> </p>
<p class="p1">Via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1l2omq/what_is_one_fact_that_sounds_like_bullshit_but_is/cbv6810">Reddit user Monkey0410</a></p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;">"A day on Venus is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Venus&amp;mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop">longer than a year</a> on Venus."</p>
<p class="p1"><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source">NASA</p></div></div></p>
<p class="p1">Via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1l2omq/what_is_one_fact_that_sounds_like_bullshit_but_is/cbv6mk2">Reddit user MuskMelon12:</a></p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;">"<a href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130205-sahara-life-giving-sands">Tropical rain forests in the Amazon have their nutrients periodically replenished by the Sahara Desert.</a></p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">Wind blows dust particles all the way from the desert, across the ocean, to the tropics where the sand and its associated nutrients help the fertility of the rainforest!"</p>
<p class="p2"><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markgee6/90102502/sizes/o/in/photolist-8XNkq-8XNRd-FZf1E-FZqF4-2L6Z5d-2MdPDm-3jAEgH-5hy2sQ-5An39W-5Pbm2p-5PfBZS-5RuZse-5RCgGX-5RGCpJ-6gCEDA-6ieGFi-6ikLEV-6ikMFg-6ikPdi-6Pqpgt-7bHexS-7emJ6y-7emKmh-7emKoE-7emL6u-frZuXf-9AtJog-9AtJDk-aahLdS-cPkQZu-cPnBch-cPkGWh-cPnx3y-cPkxXY-cPkBU9-9AwE53-9AwC3G-9AtFuB-9AtGP2-9AtG3i-9AwBiW-9AwAcQ-9AtFDi-9AwEd1-9AwDnd-9AwB69-9AwBrs-9AwDCu-9AtHxr-9AwAT7-9AwBJ7/">flickr/markgee6</a></p></div></div></p>
<p class="p1">Via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1l2omq/what_is_one_fact_that_sounds_like_bullshit_but_is/cbv9ilz">Reddit user InsectOverlord</a></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"The center star of Orion's sword isn't a star; it's the Orion Nebula and is the only nebula visible from Earth with the naked eye. It's so big that if the distance from the earth to the sun were one inch, the Orion Nebula would be 12 miles wide. (source: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/23/AR2010082304771.html">Jack Horkheimer</a>)"</p>
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