Physicists create a strange new quantum state called a fractional fermi sea
Researchers have shown that an unusual class of quantum states known as “fractional Fermi seas” can be deliberately…
Pretty moth and butterfly spotted at opposite ends of the Okanagan
Beautiful bugs abound Photo: Stefania Eymundson Stefania Eymundson spotted a pale swallowtail butterfly in her Penticton garden recently.…
Report: Rising insurance costs are pricing enthusiasts out of performance cars
Theft data is driving the repricing Underwriters are not operating on instinct. Theft exposure, crash severity, repair costs,…
Recycled-plastic blocks can snap into a small house in five days, as construction starts to look like a puzzle
A house made from discarded plastic can sound flimsy at first. The mental image is a grocery bag…
Starwatch: Ophiuchus the serpent bearer, straddling the celestial equator | Space
This week we will look for another large but faint constellation: Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer. One of the…
Breakthrough could lead to ‘big leaps’ in battery performance, scientists say
It was previously thought that during the charging process much of the activity happens in metal elements inside…
UPDATE: Rainfall warnings extended to cover all of southern Alberta
(Image Credit: Environment & Climate Change Canada) By Dave Lueneberg Between 50 and 100 mm forecast Jun 27,…
From interplanetary spaceships to lunar reactors, our future in space looks nuclear-powered
Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to…
Laser strums atoms trillions of times in search for better computers
A scientist works on the MID instrument that researchers used in a new study to ‘see’ atoms vibrated…
The Lion With Nine Lives: Jacob’s Story And The Making Of A Wildlife Documentary.
A YOUNG JACOB UP A TREE, WITH ALL HIS NINE LIVES STILL AHEAD OF HIM ALEX BRACZKOWSKI Our…
The James Webb telescope picked out 16.5 million individual stars in the Cigar Galaxy — a neighbor forming stars ten times faster than the Milky Way, in a burst estimated to last only a few hundred million years
About 12 million light-years from Earth, a nearby galaxy named Messier 82 is building stars at a furious…
Venezuela earthquake: father and son found alive in rubble after four days as death toll nears 1,500 | Venezuela
A man and his teenage son were found alive under the rubble in Venezuela on Sunday, in a…