Scientists Pulled 700,000-Year-Old DNA From Frozen Squirrel Poop
Arctic ground squirrels will eat just about anything. Apparently, they have been like this for at least 700,000…
A solar-powered rubbish-eating boat? The vessel chomping plastic waste out of the sea | Waste
On an overcast June morning, I step from the rubber-sided Zodiac boat on to a floating barge at…
Breathable oxygen has now been produced on the surface of Mars — generated between 2021 and 2023 by a NASA experiment about the size of a toaster, riding inside the Perseverance rover — in the first time humans have ever made air on another planet, opening the door to bringing astronauts safely home one day
Sometime around midday on April 20, 2021, a microwave-sized device on Mars finished its first hour of work…
One-way quantum synchronization could make quantum computers more reliable
A team of theoretical physicists at RIKEN has proposed a new way to achieve one-way quantum synchronization of…
Reciprocal Generosity is Abandoned Inside Unequal Social Relationships
Summary: A new study has redefined the understanding of human cooperation, proving that keeping a mental ledger of…
The underwater wonders I saw on my once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Galápagos | Environment
Darwin and Wolf Islands in the Galápagos archipelago are the kinds of places scuba divers and marine biologists…
You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPO
One thing that seems certain about the SpaceX IPO is that it’s going to make lots of people…
Novel gravitational-wave model sheds light on dark matter – Physics World
Novel gravitational-wave model sheds light on dark matter – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from…
Spaniard’s Bay Seeking Answers on Disposal of Whale Carcass
(Photo via Mark Hayward) Normally a whale sighting is cause for excitement, but the recent arrival of…
Gravastar theory offers alternative to black holes
Two theoretical physicists, Daniel Jampolski and Professor Luciano Rezzolla of Goethe University Frankfurt, have developed a new mathematical…
Climate change is causing fish to move to cooler water. But what if their escape route is blocked?
Around the world, ocean warming is causing fish to move polewards in search of cooler water. But what…
Mars’s missing water and atmosphere finally tracked down
Today we know Mars to be a dry, barren, dead and desolate world. Its distinctive rust-coloured surface stretches…