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There is a mile of rock between us and understanding, or so it sometimes feels with quantum physics,…
In 1912, a young homesteader walked deep into British Columbia’s mountains and spent 54 years at an isolated lake; his family helped save its trumpeter swans, and the homestead eventually joined a provincial park | World News
Ralph Edwards (LEFT), Trumpeter swans (RIGHT): Wikimedia Commons Ralph Edwards was looking for a place where he could…
A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going
An iceberg from Petermann Glacier encounters Joe Island in northwestern Greenland, visible in images captured by the OLI…
Dust Storm Sweeps Over Mali
As summer winds down in West Africa, so does much of the region’s dust activity. Dust storms can…
See the highest-resolution footage of a black hole jet ever taken, thanks to AI and 27 years of observations
Astronomers just dropped a video 27 years in the making: the highest-definition animation of a gargantuan black hole…
Single-mode lasers before the merger
A central problem in semiconductor lasers is deceptively simple: how can one increase optical performance without allowing unwanted…
In 1807, pigs were released on New Zealand’s Auckland Islands as food for castaways; 192 years later, 17 were rescued before the feral population was eradicated
On a remote, windswept archipelago far south of New Zealand, a small herd of pigs lived out more…
APOD: 2026 September 10 – LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula
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Forecast suggests winter to wait as El Nino extends fall
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites, lands on ship at sea (video)
SpaceX will launch a secret mission for the U.S. Space Force today (Sept. 10), and you can watch…
Physicist Bhupal Dev at Washington University used the debris from GW170817 — the 2017 neutron star merger — to squeeze new limits on axion-like particles, treating the hot post-collision remnant as a natural forge for dark-matter candidates
For about one second after two neutron stars collided 130 million light-years away, the wreckage they left behind…
Scientists will deploy 70 electronic tags on 3 vulnerable shark species around Britain, pairing new tracking data with anglers’ catch records dating back to 1953
Representative Image (AI-generated) Britain’s coastal waters are home to more shark species than many people might expect, but…