Closest black hole to Earth is Gaia BH1, 1,600 lightyears
The closest black hole to Earth is a stellar mass black hole just 1,600 lightyears away called Gaia…
Cold-atom comagnetometry via optical control of spin states
Pezzè, L., Smerzi, A., Oberthaler, M. K., Schmied, R. & Treutlein, P. Quantum metrology with nonclassical states of…
Wildlife Park Guests Get the Cutest Surprise From a Proud Capybara Mom
If there’s one animal almost everyone is instantly smitten with, it’s the capybara. There’s just something about them…
The Milky Way Devoured Smaller Galaxy About 11.8 Billion Years Ago
Lying on the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust, the elephant slowly exhausted himself in futile…
Arctic Iceberg Drones Turn Sheer Ice Into Landing Pads
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Microspines are…
SpaceX recovers rocket off Christmas Island after 24 days at sea
SpaceX has successfully retrieved a rocket that splashed down in the Indian Ocean off Christmas Island, the company…
Tiny quantum defects in diamonds to unlock the secrets of the universe
Researchers in the US have launched a USD 1 million project to develop quantum sensors by using the…
Vampire bats will regurgitate blood to save a starving roost-mate, even one they are not related to — then remember who helped them before, in a system of animal reciprocity that looks less like instinct than a tiny favour economy
Somewhere in a hollow tree in Panama, a bat that came home hungry is being fed by a…
Mystery of ‘Beat’ Signals in Topological Insulators Solved — New Benchmark for Quantum Device Design — BigGo Finance
A South Korean research team has identified, for the first time worldwide, the origin of “beat” signals that…
In 1969, the US released a European weevil to control invasive thistles; it later fed on more than 30 native species, including at least seven rare or endangered plants
A European beetle released across North America in 1969 to control invasive pasture weeds became an ecological problem…
NASA images show crater carved by SpaceX rocket that slammed into Moon
A NASA spacecraft circling the Moon is providing the sharpest views yet of a crater carved by a…
Researchers find a simple mechanical dial for controlling an exotic magnet’s behavior
A gentle mechanical squeeze on a tiny iron sulfide crystal just revealed something researchers had not expected: two…