SpaceX adds long-time Elon Musk ally Roelof Botha to board
Roelof Botha speaks onstage during day one of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at Moscone Center on Oct. 27, 2025…
In 1927 a Brisbane physics professor melted a lump of tar and sealed it in a funnel, and almost a century later that tar, stiff enough to shatter under a hammer, has dripped only nine times
In 1927, a physics professor in Brisbane named Thomas Parnell heated a lump of pitch, a black tar…
Advertiser.ie – Night sky photography contest
Six photographers from Galway have been shortlisted for a national astrophotpography competition. The public has until July 13…
Ethanol swap was great for me in France
Letters Reader is ‘chuffed to bits with the conversion’ Switching to ethanol ‘saves me a great deal of…
Whoever finds the Voyager Golden Record will know exactly how long it has been drifting, because the scientists who built it pressed a small sample of uranium into the cover — a built-in clock that keeps time for roughly a billion years.
The two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, each carry a gold-plated copper phonograph record holding sounds and images…
A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer with all-to-all connectivity
Quantum operations The 1Q and 2Q gates are implemented with pairs of 515-nm laser beams separated by the…
Ariane 6 launches with more powerful boosters, setting a new European payload record
Europe’s heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 has launched 36 satellites for Amazon’s low-Earth orbit constellation, using four upgraded solid-propellant…
Solar panels are creating a strange effect by forming rainfall clouds and thriving oases in the middle of the desert
Solar panels may be benefiting the world in more ways than one. We know that solar power now…
NASA satellite can now track fall colors leaf by leaf from space
Every autumn, millions of people try to time nature’s biggest show. Travelers plan leaf-peeping trips, tourism boards issue…
JUNO’s First Results Bring the Neutrino Mass Mystery Into Focus
A giant underground neutrino observatory in China has delivered its first major scientific result, achieving remarkably precise measurements…
Consciousness is Not Exclusive to Earth’s Biology, Philosophers Argue
University of California, Riverside’s Professor Eric Schwitzgebel and University of Lisbon postdoctoral researcher Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness…
Development Sprawl Is Cutting Off Mountain Lion Habitat
Los Angeles County has approved a 1,300-acre development near Castaic Lake in a region where mountain lions already…