CUNY physicists recreate black hole energy extraction in a historic lab experiment
A black hole may be millions of light-years away, but some of its strangest physics has now been…
Meet the Turkey vulture: The bird that vomits at predators and poops on its own legs to survive |
A Turkey vulture drifting high overhead can look almost effortless, its broad wings held in a shallow V…
FSU researcher creates seawater isotope database to improve climate reconstructions, projections
A Florida State University paleoclimatologist led the creation of a global database hosting thousands of seawater isotope measurements…
Metro Vancouver to revert to Stage 2 water restrictions with key supply pipe back in service
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New Horizons flew past Pluto so quickly that an encounter nine years in the making was effectively over within hours — but the data gathered during that brief passage took another 15 months to trickle home
The New Horizons encounter with Pluto was one of the strangest bargains in modern exploration. NASA spent almost…
Einstein’s relativity allows time travel into the future, and we have already measured it: atomic clocks flown around Earth on aeroplanes came home showing a different time from clocks left on the ground
The first machine to carry a human-made clock measurably into the future was a scheduled passenger flight. In…
England: Britain bought 1,525 acres of nearly lifeless farmland for £13.8 million; four years later, beavers are helping it make money
Beavers are finally released at Boothby Wildland. Photograph: Jonathan Perugia/Gaia Visual for Nattergal A bold experiment in Lincolnshire…
Chemistry Reveals the Origins of an Interstellar Comet
Somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy is an old star that has lost one of its comets. By…
Alberta, Ottawa and top oil producers agree to advance the Pathways carbon capture project
Open this photo in gallery: Pipelines run at Suncor’s McKay River oilsands operation near Fort McMurray, Alta., in…
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch a flight-proven Falcon booster for 600th time – Spaceflight Now
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force…
World’s first cyclic quantum heat engine built for quantum computers
Scientists at Aalto University in Finland have built the world’s first cyclic heat engine, operating inside a superconducting…
Unexpected visitor turns heads along Highway 29 in Brockville
Drivers near Brockville were treated to a rare wildlife sighting after a moose was spotted wandering close to…