World’s First Room-Temperature Quantum Material Sorts Light in an Unprecedented Way
A new Nature study establishes a blueprint for engineering future quantum materials that operate under everyday conditions. Credit:…
Former newsreader and big cat conservationist Gillian van Houten dies
Gillian van Houten, one of South Africa’s most recognisable news presenters and a former SABC newsreader during the…
The Physical Mechanics of Memory Erasure
Summary: A new study demonstrates that non-Brownian suspensions can form, retain, and overwrite multiple microscopic memories simultaneously, offering…
This Week In Space LIVE — The Viking Mars landings 50 years later
This Week in Space 220 – YouTube Watch On Hey, Space Fans! Every weekend here at Space.com, you…
We talk with astronaut Michael Foale about the 1997 Space Station Mir crisis: ‘He took all the blame of the collision on his shoulders’
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Hubble Spies One-Sided Spiral – NASA Science
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a spiral galaxy struggling against titanic forces that…
US scientists find cleaner way to separate rare earths using minerals
Rare earth elements power everything from electric vehicle motors and wind turbines to MRI scanners and smartphones. However,…
Oldest Mars meteorite reveals Mars lost its water early
View larger. | Closeup of the Teghaza 001 Mars meteorite. A new analysis of this ancient piece of…
How MP taught orphaned tiger cubs to return — and rule — in the wild
An orphaned tiger cub crouches silently in the undergrowth. A chital grazes a few metres away, unaware of…
Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, hides intense heat beneath its porous crust
NASA’s Juno spacecraft measured heat below Io’s surface for the first time and found temperatures rise sharply just…
Kilometre-scale Jovian moon characterized for a potential JUICE flyby
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Japan’s monkey sensation Punch turns 1, drawing a flood of well-wishing messages, in photos
ICHIKAWA, Japan (AP) — Punch, the orphaned monkey at a Japanese zoo that stole many people’s hearts by…