University of Michigan-Led Quantum Photonics Project Receives $4 Million NSF Award
Insider Brief Phase 2 adds $4M to the $1M pilot award, enabling the team to design connectable quantum…
Hunting the tardigrade: one small step in sequencing DNA of all life on Earth | Biology
Witek Morek is closely inspecting an old brick-and-flint wall on the Cambridgeshire campus of the Wellcome Sanger Institute.…
Astronomers Spot an Extremely Rare Galaxy Mega-Merger
Scale in the universe is hard to understand from a purely human perspective. Many times the math just…
Rescue mission launches to save NASA telescope falling back to Earth
A three-armed spacecraft has rocketed into orbit to rescue a NASA telescope that is in danger of crashing…
How to find Uranus this week, the hardest planet I’ve ever tried to see
I used to think Uranus was the sort of planet you graduated into. Saturn and its rings first,…
Physicists Discover Superconducting States That Get Stronger Under Conditions Meant to Kill Them
Superconductivity, the ability for materials to conduct electricity with zero resistance, is a valuable scientific treasure. Researchers have…
Hobart City Council backs Halls Saddle transport hub, leaves size question open
Hobart councillors have backed a master plan for a multi-million dollar visitor hub at the base of kunanyi/Mt…
In 1610, Galileo spotted a small, smooth moon circling Jupiter and wrote it down; four hundred years later, scientists confirmed it likely holds the largest ocean in the solar system, buried under ice and never once touched by sunlight
In January 1610, Galileo Galilei turned a small telescope toward Jupiter and noticed something that should not have…
Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in a Lab. Then It Started to ‘Evaporate’. : ScienceAlert
The one thing we all ‘know’ about black holes is that nothing escapes their ineluctable grasp. That is…
New fossil discovery explains the disappearance of the Flores ‘Hobbits’ 61,000 years ago
In a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, a tiny human relative once lived alongside dwarf elephants,…
Great Barrier Reef avoids ‘in danger’ listing in World Heritage Committee draft decision
The Great Barrier Reef has avoided an “in danger” listing in a draft decision by the World Heritage…
Rescue mission launches to save NASA telescope that’s falling back to Earth thanks to solar storms
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s…