Guest Post — The Quantum Inflection Point: Charting a Science-First Roadmap for the Nation
By Dr. Darío Gil, the Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. His office is…
Researchers placed 40 kangaroo carcasses in front of camera traps. This is what happened next
You might be familiar with apex predators, but what about apex scavengers? These large animals play an equally…
Tech billionaires trying to live for ever? That’s a waste of time, says physicist | Physics
Tech billionaires attempting to live for ever are, quite literally, wasting their time, a leading physicist has said.…
Polar vortex strengthens over Arctic, very strong El Niño supports mid-winter weakening signal
The Northern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex returned to westerly circulation over the Arctic in late August 2026 and…
Everyone talks about ‘equinox auroras’ — but the Harvest Moon may have other plans
Last winter I made two trips to see the aurora, one to northern Canada and the other to…
A 1,100 plasma campaign on a spherical tokamak in Oxfordshire hit the machine’s highest pressure without a single disruption, where the real result was 4 separate ways to tame the plasma edge
A vacuum vessel in Oxfordshire shaped less like a doughnut than a cored apple. Inside it the machine…
New Bolivian cat claws its way into species list: What we meow | Wildlife News
A new species of wildcat, discovered in Bolivia, has been formally identified after the accidental discovery of a…
Human brain is two separate organs, new Stanford research finds
The team at Stanford Medicine found that the brain is comprised of two ancient nervous systems and could…
Taiwanese rubbish trucks play Beethoven as they drive, and residents come out and hand their sorted waste over in person because there are no communal bins to leave it in. The recycling rate went from around 5 percent in the late 1990s to over 50 percent, mostly by making people meet the truck.
The specific piece of music is Beethoven’s Für Elise, or occasionally Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska’s Maiden’s Prayer. It plays over…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could last more than twice as long as planned
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may be able to operate for far longer than originally expected. An…
Scientists are about to test Einstein’s gravity with exotic matter
Does gravity affect every type of particle in exactly the same way? Researchers at ETH Zurich and the…
Fat Bear Week has returned – and the salmon are swimming for their lives | Alaska
The bears have returned to the river and are packing on the pounds as another Fat Bear Week…