Purple Haze Aurora – NASA Science
One of the inspirations for Jimi Hendrix’s iconic 1967 hit “Purple Haze” is said to be the sci-fi…
Entanglement Survives Violence of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have confirmed that quantum entanglement — the phenomenon…
Saudi Arabia released 313 desert gazelles; 20 years later, both species had established in a vast protected desert | World News
Across one of Saudi Arabia’s largest protected desert landscapes, a conservation experiment that began in the 1990s is…
Research Reveals Complexity in Ancient Australian Rainfall
“Sediment and fossil records are a main pillar for our understanding of how the climate works – but…
NSW’s renewable energy rollout is running almost $1b under budget
In 2020, the NSW Coalition government outlined a plan for a once-in-a-generation undertaking. To power Australia’s most populous…
SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbit, sets launch date next week
Pending regulatory approval, SpaceX said today it intends to launch its 14th Starship mission as early as September…
‘Vacuumtronics’ could help make better superconductors – Physics World
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These ‘alien tortoises’ are back on a Galapagos island where they had been extinct since the 19th century
The story of the giant tortoises of the Galapagos is a story of pirates. Starting in the 16th…
AIBN develops self-repairing coating to extend rust protection
Electrochemical testing indicates Dr Nugraha’s self-healing coating can restrict corrosion to 37 nanometers per year. Image credit: AIBN…
A giant collision dumps enormous energy into an icy moon, but new simulations show that shattered fragments shed the heat rapidly—so smaller moons can lose existing oceans or fail to form oceans that would otherwise have developed.
A collision powerful enough to break an icy moon into a cloud of debris appears, at first glance,…
The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA’s expectations
Officials prepared Roman to receive a potential uncrewed servicing mission. NASA attached a grapple fixture on the bottom…
Venus looks pale yellow from space, but modelling suggests that if the liquid inside its cloud droplets were collected into a container, it could appear almost black—the unidentified absorber must be extraordinarily powerful, highly concentrated, or both.
Venus is a pale yellow world in ordinary visible light. In ultraviolet images, however, its upper clouds are…