Microsoft And Quantinuum Report on Major Gains in Quantum Error Correction
Insider Brief A Nature study from Microsoft Quantum and Quantinuum found that quantum error-correction techniques reduced computational errors…
Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated
Early in the 11th century, a young Benedictine monk named Eilmer jumped from the 150-foot tower of his…
Are Australia’s carbon farming schemes just hot air? Hardly – forests are regrowing almost everywhere
Trees take carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into wood, storing it for decades. This is…
Catch Mercury shining at its best on June 15 before it slips back into the sun’s glare
Mercury reaches greatest elongation on June 15, placing the elusive planet at its farthest apparent distance from the…
Physicists crack the puzzle of bird flocks with Newton-inspired twist
For more than three centuries, physicists have believed in Isaac Newton’s third law—every action has an equal and…
How Jules Verne predicted the Artemis 2 mission to the moon almost 160 years ago
“From the pages of Jules Verne to a modern-day mission to the moon, a new chapter of our…
Nature No Longer Smells So Natural—and That’s Our Fault – Mother Jones
A sunflower grow near a coal-fired power plant in Niederaussem, Germany.Bernd Lauter via Getty Get your news from…
A Strange Moon Orbiting Neptune May Be The Sole Survivor of an Apocalypse : ScienceAlert
Neptune is definitely the odd one out of the gas giants. It’s tilted at a strange angle, and…
Gina Moore Cougar Rescue: Canadian farmer fights off a cougar to save her baby goat: “I knew there was a chance that the cougar would turn on me…”
There are moments in life where the brain goes quiet and the body just moves. Gina Moore, a…
Apollo astronauts trying to sleep on the way to the Moon kept seeing flashes and streaks in the dark, and the cause turned out to be cosmic rays from deep space passing straight through their eyes.
Apollo astronauts trying to rest on the way to the Moon kept noticing the same thing in the…
Venus’ Strange Rotation Was Likely Triggered By A High Velocity Moon-Sized Impactor
Venus’ bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its axis has long puzzled planetary scientists. But in a…
Watch: Scientists Capture First-Ever Footage Of A Live Goblin Shark In The Deep Ocean
Scientists have captured the first-ever footage of a healthy goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) swimming freely in its natural…