Scientists create an “electron lighthouse” with laser light
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a semiconductor device that uses laser light to direct the…
Collared peccaries vanished from Uruguay after the 1800s; a 17-year breeding effort returned them to forests where a new generation has now been born
For more than 100 years, Uruguay’s grasslands and river forests were missing a native mammal that once moved…
Using Molecule As Quantum Sensor
A new quantum sensing technique could enable measurements of single protein structures and other important molecules, with potential…
Live updates: France issues heat warnings in wildfire-hit areas, as at least 63,000 evacuated near Madrid
Hundreds of thousands of people across France and Spain have been evacuated from their homes in recent days,…
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aces Mars flyby capturing stunning timelapse video
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft completed a highly successful flyby of Mars, giving the mission a carefully planned gravitational boost…
Twisted laser light can tell mirror-image molecules apart
Many molecules come in two forms that are mirror images of one another, much like left and right…
Blue Whales Are Born Bigger Than Adult Great White Sharks
Great white sharks are documented scavengers of dead whales, and young blue whales are considered vulnerable to shark…
There’s a stretch of desert in Chile so dry that a single rain event turned up in four years of instrument records, and its soil fools life-detection hardware in precisely the way Mars does, so NASA spent four field seasons rehearsing a rover mission on it
For four years, an instrument station in the hyperarid core of Chile’s Atacama Desert logged one rain event.…
The Guardian view on Europe’s wildfires: politics must catch up with the new reality | Editorial
A new and ominous word has entered the vocabulary of firefighters struggling to cope with the vast wildfire…
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! Astronomers capture clearest image yet of famous star’s elusive companion
Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Atacama Desert region of Northern Chile to discover…
Quantum Heat Waves Spotted at Room Temperature for the First Time
Visualization of ray-like heat flow in boron arsenide at 300 K (80°F). Credit: H-Lab/UCLA The discovery could improve…
Scientists filmed this rare Arctic squid in the wild for the first time, guarding its eggs in sub-zero water inside the world’s largest national park
Credit: Maroni, P.J., Cornet, J., Skorikova, Y. et al./Springer Nature In the icy waters of Northeast Greenland, scientists…