NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 to Discuss Station Mission, Upcoming Return
Media are invited to hear from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts during a news conference beginning at 2:45 p.m.…
How Big Can The Universe’s First Starbursts Get?
As our telescopes have improved and we’ve been able to peer farther back in time, we’ve begun finding…
Drone films “apex predator at full strength” taking down turtle in Australia
Wildlife watchers in Western Australia were awe-struck to see the circle of life playing out right before their…
AI Temporal Intelligence: Teaching Machines to Understand How Situations Change Over Time
Artificial intelligence has become highly effective at analyzing information available in the present. AI systems can classify documents,…
Dropping a dead solar panel into a U.S. landfill costs $1 to $5, while recycling the same panel has been estimated at $15 to $45. That gap helps explain why most go into the ground, even though a plant that opened in Georgia this year says it recovers 96 percent of a panel’s material value.
What does it actually cost to throw away the future? For a retired solar panel in the United…
APOD: 2026 September 11 – M83: The Southern Pinwheel
APOD: 2026 September 11 – M83: The Southern Pinwheel Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet?
Atom interferometers have existed for 30 years, but none could accomplish what Folman and his colleagues wanted to…
Scientists fitted GPS collars to 17 lions and 14 hyenas expecting hyenas to follow lions; thousands of locations revealed the opposite, with male lions approaching as hyenas retreated
Wildlife biologists tracking lions and spotted hyenas in Southern Africa have found evidence that challenges a long-held belief…
What’s Carving Active Gullies on Mars? It’s Not Water
Scientists were shocked when they received the first images of Martian gullies. They were even more shocked as…
After over 75% of Niagara River coastal wetlands were lost, Canada anchored recycled Christmas trees into the riverbed; restoration has now created 1.64 km of fish habitat
Representative Image (AI-generated) What if a discarded Christmas tree could help bring a damaged river ecosystem back to…
The Moon may have formed intact just hours after a giant collision
Earth has an unusually large moon compared with other rocky planets in the solar system, but scientists still…
Scientists just made quantum computer operations 1,000 times faster
Quantum computers remain highly vulnerable to errors and tiny disturbances from their surroundings. The longer a quantum operation…