Today is Thursday, February 25, 2016. A woman scores a linguine pearl. We also learn more about radio waves from space.
Pearl Linguine
A woman spent $35 on pasta but came away with an estimated $600 when she found a rare pearl tucked inside of her linguine. She was eating seafood linguine at a local Italian restaurant in Washington.
The bead-sized pearl nearly broke her tooth and she at first thought it was an employee’s earring.
Ted Irwin, president of the Northwest Geological Labratory and director of the Northwest Geological Institute, says the pearl is a rare purple Quahog, native to clams of the Atlantic states, specifically New England.
The pearl is a little over one carat and worth about $600.
Radio Waves From Space
Since 2007, astronomers have detected curious bright blasts of radio waves from the cosmos, each lasting no more than a few milliseconds.
Now scientists have been able to pinpoint the source of one of these pulses: a galaxy 1.9 billion parsecs (6 billion light years) away. It probably came from two colliding neutron stars, says astronomer Evan Keane from the UK. All but one of the 16 previously reported fast radio bursts were found long after the signals reached Earth, by trawling through archives of telescope data. But today, supercomputers can process these signals in real time and detect them as they arrive.
