New laser design breaks rigid patterns without losing light control
A laser does not always need a perfectly repeating pattern to produce a clean beam. Researchers at the…
American cheetah was not actually a cheetah, DNA reveals
Ancient DNA reveals that the American cheetah was actually closer to pumas, ranged into Arctic Yukon, and may…
A Solar Storm Knocked GPS Off by 33 Feet Across the US and Scientists Had Never Seen This Kind of Disruption
International Space Station photos of the November 12 2025 solar superstorm auroras. Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit/NASA…
French winemakers forecast 30-year low harvest after severe drought and heat | France
French vineyards hit by severe drought and heatwaves are expected to report a 30-year low in wine production…
An eccentric massive protobinary assembled via a core-merger parabolic encounter
Chini, R., Hoffmeister, V. H., Nasseri, A., Stahl, O. & Zinnecker, H. A spectroscopic survey on the multiplicity…
Quiet Black Holes With a Stellar Companion Raise Questions About How They Form
Active black holes are pretty easy to detect. Their superheated accretion disks emit bright x-rays, and the jets…
It Looks and Tastes Like Beef, Is Actually Bird
When a friend approached Brent Williams four years ago with a business proposition to start an ostrich…
Meet the next generation of Mars exploration
The Rosalind Franklin rover: Playing the long game ESA’s ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover is another example of international…
An Australian woman bought cleared sugarcane land and planted trees; 10 years later, 119,000 trees transformed it into a rainforest home to flying-foxes | World News
Annie Schoenberger bought cleared land near Wonga Beach in Queensland, Australia, with a simple but ambitious goal of…
Galaxies tangled in science and spirit photo of the day for Sept. 7, 2026
Nā ‘Uhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola is the Hawaiian name given to this image of NGC…
Chinese, German scientists build room temperature magnetic sensor
Chinese and German researchers have developed a magnetic sensor to spot magnetic signals much more faint than Earth’s…
How beavers can help create fire breaks as part of a drought preparation plan
Most of the countryside around the Holnicote estate in Somerset has been dry and dusty for most of…