Ultrafast triggering of strong coupling in a semiconductor terahertz Fabry-Pérot cavity
THz characterization of a photo-excited thin Si wafer When a semiconductor is excited above band-gap, its optical properties…
Destructive and delicious: how an invasive deer in Hawaii is being turned into dinner | Hawaii
In 1868, the government of Hong Kong gave eight axis deer to Hawaii’s King Kamehameha V. They were…
Reflect Orbital says satellite will not illuminate Saskatchewan communities – DiscoverMooseJaw.com
A company developing satellites that reflect sunlight back to Earth says it has no plans to illuminate Saskatchewan…
How Africa Is Battling Climate Change and the Coming ‘Super’ El Niño
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: African countries respond to climate change-driven wildfires, drought,…
Armed with funding boost, SpaceSail accelerates China’s push to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink
In a record funding round for China’s satellite internet sector, domestic start-up SpaceSail has raised around 7 billion…
Korean Researchers Identifies Cause of ‘Beat’ Signal in Topological Insulator Nanowires
Insider Brief Researchers from KRISS, GIST and Kongju National University identified the source of a beat signal in…
Proposed changes to endangered species law would ‘stab it to death,’ says scientist
Five former chairs of a panel that advises the federal government on endangered wildlife have published an open…
The world banned CFCs and put the ozone layer on a path to recovery. Now thousands of dying satellites are introducing aluminium oxide nanoparticles into the upper atmosphere — particles scientists warn can catalyse the chlorine chemistry that destroys ozone.
The Montreal Protocol produced a result that can be measured in the atmosphere. Nearly all controlled ozone-depleting substances…
Prince Albert residents frustrated as water concerns persist into August
A news release from the City on Wednesday said the Water Treatment Plant collected water samples for further…
An Uncommon Drifter in the Denmark Strait
Greenland’s jagged coastline is lined with fjords, many of them cradling marine-terminating glaciers that routinely calve icebergs into…
Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time
Practically all modern computers, from the cheap microcontroller in your dishwasher to high-tech hardware crunching numbers for artificial…
Australia races to shield little penguins from H5N1 bird flu
“UNPRECEDENTED” In response, wildlife teams started to vaccinate birds in the colony this week, said James Todd, chief…