A single antimatter particle in a cage opens door to ‘revolutionary’ physics
The researchers devised a one-positron quantum cyclotron to probe the particle’s properties.Credit: Gerald Gabrielse/Northwestern University Physicists have now…
US extreme weather survivors are a growing group – now they want to be a political force | Texas
It may be a club none of its members actually want to be in, but the growing number…
NASA Conducts RS-25 Engine Test in Support of Future Artemis Missions
NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis…
There Must Be Stellar-Mass Black Holes in our Stellar Neighbourhood. Can We Find Them?
Scientific estimates show that there should be between about 100 million and 1 billion stellar-mass black holes in…
Orangutans prefer food associated with sounds of laughter, study suggests | Animal behaviour
Orangutans base their food choices on whether others appear to be having a good time, research suggests. Scientists…
NASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, Exploration
Clockwise from top: Caltech graduate students and friends carry out their first rocket firing on Halloween, 1936, in…
A Queensland farmer says his family’s 140-year-old well turned cloudy after neighbouring water tests; the council has rejected a bottling plant linked to a 96-million-litre annual groundwater licence | World News
For generations, a Queensland farming family relied on a well that had supplied water for around 140 years.…
SpaceX and Tesla have formed committees to discuss potential merger, Musk says
New York — Elon Musk, the CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla, voiced support for merging the two companies…
Light-induced asymmetric pseudogap below the critical temperature in cuprates
Keimer, B., Kivelson, S. A., Norman, M. R., Uchida, S. & Zaanen, J. From quantum matter to high-temperature…
Wimpole Estate records ‘abundance’ of wildlife despite drought
A country house and farming estate in one of England’s driest and most nature-depleted areas has an “abundance”…
NASA advances lunar rover development for future Moon Base
This photo, provided by NASA, shows the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover at the Johnson Space Center in…
This Norwegian village is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth. How can its people save it? | Glaciers
On a rugged mountain plateau of snow-dusted rocks, in the remote archipelago of Svalbard, a glaciologist, Andy Hodson,…