Brisbane stargazers capture stunning celestial images despite inner-city light pollution
Densely populated and polluted with light, major cities like Brisbane may not be the most obvious places to…
CERN has begun disconnecting the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) stretches 27 km around and relies on thousands of magnets of different types…
After cats and rats were wiped out on Raoul Island, a parakeet missing for generations returned; researchers found its first nests there since 1836 | World News
AI representation: Green parakeet overlooking coastal cliff. Image credits: Chatgpt Raoul Island, the largest of New Zealand’s Kermadec…
High-Altitude Wetland Shows Distinctive DNA Polymerase Genes
Wetlands are well known for filtering water, storing carbon, and supporting biodiversity. Yet much of their microbial genetic…
Hurricane Nolo may trigger ‘catastrophic flooding’ in Hawaii
Hurricane Nolo is forecast to become a major hurricane by this weekend, possibly making it the strongest storm…
NASA Tests Dual Mode Propulsion CubeSat Ahead of Launch
Spacecraft propulsion traditionally relies on volatile fuels and separate, bulky systems for different types of maneuvering in space.…
Quantum computing’s “dark horse” just proved it can go universal
A practical quantum computer must eventually be able to handle any type of quantum algorithm, much like a…
Some gray squirrels are black, and where they live could explain why
Eastern gray squirrels can be black or gray, and new research reveals how surprisingly local conditions are linked…
Earth microbes survive simulated conditions of Saturn moon’s ocean | Saturn
From the moment scientists spotted plumes of water erupting from Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, it became the…
Hurricane Nolo predicted to bring ‘life-threatening flooding’ to Hawaii | Hawaii
Hurricane Nolo is expected to bring potentially life-threatening and catastrophic flooding to Hawaii on Friday, affecting communities that…
Astronomers Find a Sub-Neptune Orbiting Completely Backward Around a Red Dwarf
In our own solar system, all eight planets orbit our Sun in a nice, orderly fashion. None are…
A 60-beam ultraviolet laser flash-vaporized the surface of tiny diamonds so the blast would kick a shock wave through them, melting the hardest material on Earth at 12,680 degrees and 145 million psi, and solid diamond turned out to float on its own melt like ice on water
KeysQuestions4Explore4 For two decades, physicists couldn’t agree on something as fundamental as when diamond melts — and the…