NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-14 Assignments for Space Station Mission
Four crew members from three space agencies will launch to the International Space Station no earlier than spring…
A fusion magnet system of 44 superconducting coils peaked at 13.7 tesla, against the 1.5 to 3 of a hospital MRI, and spent about 10,000 hours energized across 14 months, riding out sideways stresses of 21,750 psi trying to shove the conductors loose
KeysQuestions4Explore4 Demo4 just ran 44 superconducting coils at 13.7 tesla for 14 months straight, and that endurance record…
Fears for survival of Warrnambool’s little penguins and famous Maremma guardian dog project
For 20 years, a penguin colony on a small island by the Victorian coastal city of Warrnambool has…
Reading 2000-year-old scrolls without unfurling them
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, volcanic gas and ash buried a library of papyrus scrolls…
Scimitar-horned oryx was declared extinct in the wild in 2000; 10 years after its return to Chad, more than 600 now roam free |
Representative Image of a scimitar-horned oryx standing majestically in the Ouadi Rimé–Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve landscape (AI Generated…
NASA’s Machines for Mars Make Beer Bubbly
In 2021, Maine Beer Company’s carbon dioxide supplier ran short on carbon dioxide. “There was potential for our…
An information-theoretic proof of the Planckian bound for thermalization
We demonstrate the following lower bound on the thermalization time. Result For any thermalization machine satisfying requirements 1…
Rick Wakeman performs piano concert to 150 rescued moon bears in Vietnam | Animal welfare
Rick Wakeman has played to all kinds of people around the globe, but he has now performed to…
The Price of Arctic Ambition
In 2016, a crack in the ice opened beneath the site of the U.S. Navy’s flagship Arctic exercise…
New videos of NASA’s Artemis II launch show the absolute power of the SLS rocket
In case you are feeling the empty hole of moon missions, void since the return of the Artemis…
Distant time crystals can somehow fall into the same rhythm
Physicists at TU Dortmund University showed in January 2024 that a continuous time crystal could persist inside a…
Hairy-legged, red-eyed sea spider discovered in the Salish Sea
Two new species of sea spider have been discovered in the Salish Sea off the west coast of…