Wolfgang Puck’s Rules for Building a Lasting Restaurant Empire
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Wolfgang Puck, a 76-year-old chef based in Los Angeles.…
Urban wildlife is changing from the inside out (commentary)
Cities are now home to wildlife like foxes, parrots, monkeys, raccoons, boars, and countless bird species, which…
Who is Bret Johnsen, the SpaceX CFO behind the company’s historic IPO?
While Elon Musk has extended his lead as the world’s richest man, the SpaceX IPO that made him…
A hidden gene finally explains this rare neurological disorder
Even with today’s advanced DNA sequencing technologies, the underlying genetic causes of many rare movement disorders remain unknown.…
The critical robot arm on the ISS isn’t working properly, but NASA has a plan to fix it
One of the space station’s robot arms, crucial for catching cargo ships and doing a share of maintenance…
High-fidelity entanglement and coherent multi-qubit mapping in an atom array
Kjaergaard, M. et al. Superconducting qubits: current state of play. Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 11, 369–395 (2020).…
Buried 2 miles beneath Antarctica’s ice, a colossal hidden structure may rewrite its history
Beneath roughly two miles of Antarctic ice, scientists have identified an enormous buried geologic feature that could change…
Coal finally loses to the Sun
Electrek reports that solar supplied 12.8% of U.S. electricity in May 2026, beating coal’s 12.2% for the first…
Scientists Reveal What Happened When 12 People Were Trapped Together in Antarctica for 10 Months
A ten-month Antarctic mission revealed that close confinement can increase tensions, while crews naturally form subgroups over time,…
Logical qubits with erasure conversion using metastable neutral atoms
Ryan-Anderson, C. et al. Realization of real-time fault-tolerant quantum error correction. Phys. Rev. X 11, 041058 (2021). Google…
The Sky Today on Saturday, June 13: Catch Comet 220P/McNaught
Back to Article List Comet McNaught recently underwent a major brightening event and is now passing closest to…
Bolivia moves to formalize mining permits without environmental licenses, and the plan reopens the clash between enforcement, revenue, and the ecological cost of “legalizing” the irregular
Bolivia’s government is weighing a decree that could turn 3,982 old mining authorizations into formal administrative mining contracts,…