Rocket Lab launches mystery satellite to orbit for secret customer (photo)
Rocket Lab just launched a mystery mission to orbit. An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab’s New…
IonQ Advances Quantum Computing With Superion 256: What’s Ahead?
IonQ IONQ has launched Superion 256, its sixth-generation quantum computing platform and the foundation for future compute products.…
Call for return of trafficked orangutans to Indonesia
Indonesian authorities are working to repatriate five baby orangutans allegedly trafficked to India, where they were found motherless…
“One of the longest-running cold cases of palaeontology.” Scientists may finally know what created these strange markings
An international team of scientists, led by palaeontologist Andrea Baucon from the University of Cagliari, Italy, have partly…
Labor ditches new packaging laws to cut plastic waste, sparking unprecedented ‘scale and breadth of outrage’ | Australian politics
The Albanese government has been accused of breaking a promise after it shelved a longstanding commitment to bring…
The Moon is airless, radiation-drenched and can swing from about minus 173 to plus 127 degrees Celsius, yet NASA-led modelling found that some common Earth fungi and bacteria—from human skin, soil and damp bathrooms—could survive dormant for weeks or even months in cold, shaded niches near the lunar poles.
The Moon appears to offer Earth microbes nowhere to hide. It has almost no atmosphere, no stable liquid…
Les Neutrinos: The Ghosts of the Sun, The Great Neutrino Mystery
Dear readers, faithful companions of the lantern and the basketball, Before we speak of the stars, allow me…
Ursus Maritimus and the Specter of Solitude
“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the…
Experts just found an enormous volcano lurking under England
Buried deep in the east coast of England, scientists have discovered an enormous ancient volcano several times more…
Ethiopia planted eucalyptus to fight deforestation; decades later scientists found the trees can threaten springs and water supplies | World News
Eucalyptus trees were introduced to Ethiopia more than a century ago as the country struggled with shortages of…
SpaceX just revealed an important timeline for launching data centers in space
It was all systems go for SpaceX (SPCX) CFO Bret Johnsen at his first post-IPO investor conference this…
Do black holes have hidden hair? Scientists are searching
When black holes collide, they create ripples in spacetime. If the black holes have extra matter around them…