Scientists Studied 906 Mafia Marriages and Found Something Surprising

Scientists Dropped a Camera Into the Arctic Deep and Filmed a Fish Doing Something Odd

The old folk wisdom used to be that fish couldn’t swim backward. We’ve known for a while that isn’t true. Fish can reverse direction when they need to reposition themselves or squeeze through tight spaces. But researchers studying a fjord in Greenland recently captured footage of a fish just casually drifting backward. The footage came from a new PLOS One study conducted in Inglefield Bredning, a glacial fjord in northwest Greenland. Scientists …

Scientists Studied 906 Mafia Marriages and Found Something Surprising

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that got ID’d, caught on camera, internally probed, and married off.First, scientists have confirmed the identities of four sailors who died in a grisly Victorian voyage. Then: the sights and sounds of an Arctic seafloor, a glimpse into the guts of ice giants, and a wedding kiss of death.As always, for more of my work, check out my book First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Al…