Satellite operators emphasize launch deals in a constrained market
WASHINGTON — Amid a constrained launch market, satellite operators are increasingly emphasizing to investors and customers that they…
The blue whale’s heart weighs about 400 pounds, beats as slowly as twice per minute when the animal is deep-diving, and pushes blood through an aorta about nine inches across, wide enough to fit a human head but not the crawling child of the popular legend
A blue whale’s heart weighs about 400 pounds — roughly a small piano — and when the animal…
2-kiloparsec trail of stars could reveal how dark matter shapes galaxies
A thin ribbon of stars around the ultra-diffuse galaxy UGC 9050-Dw1 may be the first globular-cluster stellar stream…
Recycling fee put forward as solution to Australia’s growing solar panel waste
One of Australia’s leading science organisations says an additional installation fee of about $10 for each panel could…
Bringing space down to earth
Campers at the Cosmosphere use virtual reality headsets to interact with “ISS: Rupture,” an interactive game that simulates…
Swimming emus in WA’s Murchison River leave visitors in awe
A group of emus swimming in one of Western Australia’s longest rivers has surprised tourists and locals alike.…
Scientists led by UCLA found that permanently shaded parts of pits on the Moon stay near a constant 17°C while the exposed surface swings between 127°C and −173°C — meaning humanity’s first permanent lunar address may be underground.
The Moon’s surface imposes a slow, punishing thermal cycle. A location in sunlight can reach about 127 degrees…
AI Set to Extend Fossil Fuel Dominance
AI’s energy footprint is out of control. Hyperscalers are building out data centers faster than the energy industry…
Scientists recreated the conditions on Saturn’s moon Titan and watched molecules that shouldn’t mix form stable crystals together — at around minus 179°C, polar hydrogen cyanide accepts nonpolar methane and ethane into its crystal structure, breaking one of chemistry’s most familiar rules of thumb.
“Like dissolves like” is one of chemistry’s most useful shortcuts. Polar materials tend to associate with polar materials,…
China pushes quantum entanglement 4x to 260 miles across fiber
Quantum networks could eventually connect computers and sensors across cities, but distance remains a major engineering hurdle. Quantum…
Rare footage shows dolphins using empty seashells as tools to catch fish, a skill called ‘shelling’
Video footage shows dolphins using empty seashells to catch fish and a calf potentially learning the hunting technique…
On 1 March 1982, a Soviet probe called Venera 13 touched down on Venus and was expected to last just 32 minutes in 465°C heat — it survived for 127 minutes, drilled and analysed a soil sample, and sent back the first colour photographs ever taken from the surface of Venus.
At 03:57:21 Universal Time on 1 March 1982, Venera 13 settled onto Venus after an atmospheric descent lasting…