Einstein’s Gravity Just Passed a Strange New Quantum Test
A new experiment found that a falling quantum wave behaves just as Einstein’s equivalence principle predicts. The result…
In 1983, Britain reintroduced a butterfly declared extinct just four years earlier; the large blue has since surged 1,866% and now survives at 33 sites
A butterfly once declared extinct in Britain is now at the centre of one of the country’s most…
UC Santa Cruz Physicist Tests Dark Matter’s Nature
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – Dark matter is one of the oldest open problems in physics. It makes up…
There are just 7 species of sea turtle – Here’s where to find them and how to tell them apart
There’s something quite mesmerising about sea turtles, their fascinating lives and the perils they face, from poaching to…
Passion Meets Precision at NASA’s Flight Research Lab
Long before they helped shape NASA’s future aerospace breakthroughs, Derek Abramson, Justin Hall, and Justin Link were in…
Weakly interacting spinons and tightly bound triplons in the frustrated quantum spin-Peierls chain
Tsui, D. C., Stormer, H. L. & Gossard, A. C. Two-dimensional magnetotransport in the extreme quantum limit. Phys.…
In 2003, scientists took one pair of giant stick insects from Ball’s Pyramid to Melbourne Zoo; 11 years later, their descendants had produced more than 11,000 young |
A Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis) is crawling on a hand. Credits – Wikimedia Commons Conservation…
Passion Meets Precision At NASA’s Flight Research Lab
Derek Abramson, Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory chief engineer, left, communicates with the Edwards Air Force Base…
Trump’s endangered species habitat rule repeal faces pushback
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill is pushing back on a seismic shift in US environmental…
When Stars Engulf Rocky Planets, Beryllium Gives It Away
Binary stars are born in the same cloud of molecular gas, and should share the same chemical composition.…
Overmassive black holes and little red dots naturally form in simulations
Our cosmological initial conditions are based on the simulation Phi-4096 of ref. 51. In this work, a dark-matter-only N-body…
How GPS collars and camera traps changed the ‘long-accepted wisdom’ about male Lions and Hyenas in African Savannahs, surprising Zoologists
AI-generated image for representation For years, researchers have assumed a common relationship between lions and spotted hyenas on…