SpaceX’s Next Big Business Isn’t Rockets. It’s Computer Chips.
Six months ago, SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) was a private rocket company. Today, it is a public one worth…
Excitons in van der Waals magnetic materials
Xu, X., Yao, W., Xiao, D. & Heinz, T. F. Spin and pseudospins in layered transition metal dichalcogenides.…
Scientists Just Found a Smiling “Happy-Face” Spider in the Himalayas
Cephalothorax of female holotype of T. himalayana sp. nov. Credit: Devi Priyadarshini and Ashirwad Tripathy For more than…
China’s satellite engine smashes record, leaves US rival far behind
China has tested a satellite engine with a record-breaking operating life, a key technology that could help propel…
70 years on from the killer smog: what clean air laws teach us about power, pollution and profit
Seventy years ago, London choked. For five days in December 1952, a toxic smog smothered the city. Visibility…
In 1610, Galileo spotted a small, smooth moon circling Jupiter and wrote it down; four hundred years later, scientists confirmed it likely holds the largest ocean in the solar system, buried under ice and never once touched by sunlight
In January 1610, Galileo Galilei turned a small telescope toward Jupiter and noticed something that should not have…
Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in a Lab. Then It Started to ‘Evaporate’. : ScienceAlert
The one thing we all ‘know’ about black holes is that nothing escapes their ineluctable grasp. That is…
Second-largest whale species spotted off Sooke
A fin whale estimated to be about 21 metres long was photographed swimming off Sheringham Point, west of…
Could humans someday explore Saturn’s moon Titan, or will humanoid robots do it for us?
BOULDER, Colorado – Humans have been exploring outer space since April 1961 with the pioneering flight of Soviet…
Storm rips through Laurentians, Lanaudière amid heat wave
Violent thunderstorms and strong winds swept across Quebec amid the ongoing heat wave, knocking out power to thousands…
The Milky Way’s arms might not look as we thought
This video shows what astronomers thought the Milky Way looked like, and what the new data indicates instead.…
Canada prepares for next generation of radio astronomy as SKA Observatory expands
The Square Kilometre Array project is steadily moving toward operational status. Recent milestones show progress on the ground,…