Boeing’s Contribution to NASA’s Moon Program Just Took a Major Hit
Boeing is still in the doghouse with NASA. Their relationship has been under mounting strain for the past…
Scientists capture a magnetic flip in 140 trillionths of a second
A team led by Ryo Shimano at the University of Tokyo has directly observed how electron spins flip…
New Species with Milky Way Spots Discovered in Japan’s Coastal Waters
A newly discovered species of jellyfish has been confirmed in Japan’s coastal waters, and it’s being called the…
Meet ‘Tous’ — an entirely new genus of mammal we identified. Here’s why it’s so exciting
Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species…
The sea is higher than we thought, and millions more are at risk, study finds
Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought…
Queensland town hopes dark sky certification attracts stargazers to the outback
Deep in the Queensland outback, far from the light pollution of the big cities, clear skies offer spectacular…
Möbius strip-like molecule has an entirely new and bizarre shape
Representation of the electrons in the “half-Möbius”-shaped molecule IBM Research and the University of Manchester Chemists have discovered…
23-million-year-old ‘frosty rhino’ discovered in the High Arctic
Deep within the frozen ground of Devon Island in Canada’s High Arctic, researchers found the nearly complete skeleton…
AI trained on 9 trillion DNA letters predicts harmful mutations and designs new genomes
Trained on genomic data spanning the tree of life, Evo 2 reveals how artificial intelligence can decode the…
Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction
Artwork of a Hybodus shark, a predator that evolved in the late Permian and survived the mass extinction…
March is a great time to spot the odd glow of zodiacal light. Here’s how to see it
Look to the western sky around sunset on the nights surrounding the spring equinox this month and you…
Evidences of subnanometre orbital diffusion length in heavy metals using terahertz emission spectroscopy
Go, D. et al. Toward surface orbitronics: giant orbital magnetism from the orbital Rashba effect at the surface…