Giant asteroids could require a very different defense strategy
Scientists believe a giant asteroid helped wipe out the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, and smaller impacts…
The Search for Room Temperature Superconductors Just Got a Huge AI Boost
YRu3B2 and LuRu3B2 gain their superconductivity from electrons forming flat bands in a kagome lattice, named after a…
Trapped like the Salamander in a Japanese folktale, scientists study a crab that grew too big for its bottle
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CDC By Talker By Stephen Beech Hospital samples from the 1970s helped reveal how a deadly antibiotic-resistant “superbug”…
Poilievre says Ottawa needs to ‘get out of the way’ and approve a pipeline proposal from Alberta
Not everyone is opposed to a North Coast pipeline One of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s key promises during…
Isar Aerospace to launch German-built Planet imaging satellite
WASHINGTON — Isar Aerospace won a contract from Planet’s German subsidiary to launch an imaging satellite, demonstrating an…
The Milky Way’s weird gamma-ray glow may be dark matter after all
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Japan deploys bear cameras in mountains as attacks surge
Japan has begun installing hundreds of cameras in its northern mountains as part of a nationwide survey of…
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I enjoyed Jonathan Freedland’s lampooning of climate sceptics suffering in the recent heatwave (Climate sceptics cheering as they…
Ars Live recap: When are the big rockets NASA desperately needs going to be ready?
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A supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy cluster has erupted after approximately 100 million years of complete silence, unleashing a jet of magnetised plasma across nearly a million light-years of space in what the astronomers who observed it have described as a cosmic volcano coming back to life after ages of calm
Every large galaxy in the observable universe is thought to host a supermassive black hole at its centre.…
Vancouver’s Crow Dive-Bombing Tradition: Map Your Attack Zones This Spring! | World News
Image of a crow. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Vancouverites can expect, each spring, the onset of warmer weather…