Rice Researchers Improve Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulation with New Temperature Controls
Insider Brief Rice University researchers developed new controls for a trapped-ion quantum simulator that allow independent tuning of…
Australia’s feral camels were abandoned when trucks replaced them. More than a century later, their isolation is attracting Gulf breeders
Australia’s camel population is difficult to count, partly because the animals are scattered across an immense stretch of…
Temples to Minoan palaces: Greece is opening 126 ancient sites for free under the August full moon
If you’re heading to Greece at the end of August, there’s a nationwide event that should be on…
El Niño may peak at the worst time for the Amazon – and it should worry us all | Amazon rainforest
As a supercharged climate scorches Europe with wildfire and deluges Asia with floods, the Amazon is bracing for…
Elon Musk’s Starbase to get two new monuments with very different messages
Elon Musk‘s Starbase in Texas is getting two very different monuments. While one group is building a 50-foot…
Quote of the day by Richard Feynman: “What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
Image: Princetoniana Museum Two people can read the same explanation of something and walk away with completely different…
BBC Audio | Witness History
When the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck the coast of Kenya, a baby hippo named Owen was swept…
Satellite reveals 400,000-hectare fire no one noticed burning across Australia
Incredible images have revealed that a sprawling 400,000-hectare fire is burning across Australia’s outback. Dr Rohan Fisher, the…
Tougher crops and beaver dams: how UK farmers are tackling drought | Farming
Ponds and collection tanks, drought-resistant crops and a certain rodent. As the climate crisis brings more extreme weather…
Pakistan Enters Moon Race: “Jinnah-1” Rover Aims For South Pole Mission
More than two decades after India launched its Chandrayaan programme and achieved major milestones in lunar exploration, Pakistan…
When an expedition team went to the Falkland Islands, a group of curious animals surrounded them
In spring 2025, after returning from an expedition to the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) in the South Atlantic Ocean, researchers…
London Mystery Unveils New Ecuadorian Frog Discovery
Scientists from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador officially described Pristimantis milpe, an abundant and widely distributed species…