Frozen for the future
Robert Ettinger, founder of the cryonics movement, has become a human popsicle himself after dying on 23 July, aged 92. Ettinger joins his mother and first and second wives in liquid nitrogen at his Cryonics Institute in Clinton Township, Michigan, in the hope that one day doctors will have the technology – and inclination – to revive them.
Watery black hole
The largest and most distant reservoir of water yet found is swirling around a black hole in the centre of a bright galaxy 12 billion light years away. The water vapour weighs 140 trillion times more than…
