My quiet obsession with satellites — and how they’re ruining everything
Did you ever see an Iridium flare? For two decades until 2019, these communication satellites would become dazzlingly…
A solar-powered rubbish-eating boat? The vessel chomping plastic waste out of the sea | Waste
On an overcast June morning, I step from the rubber-sided Zodiac boat on to a floating barge at…
Breathable oxygen has now been produced on the surface of Mars — generated between 2021 and 2023 by a NASA experiment about the size of a toaster, riding inside the Perseverance rover — in the first time humans have ever made air on another planet, opening the door to bringing astronauts safely home one day
Sometime around midday on April 20, 2021, a microwave-sized device on Mars finished its first hour of work…
The Strange “Spacetime Crystal” That Can Suddenly Turn Into a Black Hole
Physicists have long known that black holes do not necessarily have to form from collapsing stars. Under the…
Scientists Pulled 700,000-Year-Old DNA From Frozen Squirrel Poop
Arctic ground squirrels will eat just about anything. Apparently, they have been like this for at least 700,000…
Japan H3 Rocket: Japan’s struggling flagship H3 rocket returns to flight with the debut of a low-cost variant
Japan’s H3 rocket returned to flight Friday with the debut of a new low-cost variant, a badly needed…
One-way quantum synchronization could make quantum computers more reliable
A team of theoretical physicists at RIKEN has proposed a new way to achieve one-way quantum synchronization of…
Brain-inspired chip runs near absolute zero and could transform quantum computing
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have unveiled a significant advance in cryogenic electronics that could…
SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell has a message for investors
SpaceX didn’t just rewrite the playbook for aerospace and defense, it helped birth a new space economy. Now…
ATLAS hunts for a new “soft” signature of the dark sector
The ATLAS Collaboration releases its first dedicated search for soft unclustered energy patterns (SUEPs) – an elusive possible…
The underwater wonders I saw on my once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Galápagos | Environment
Darwin and Wolf Islands in the Galápagos archipelago are the kinds of places scuba divers and marine biologists…
SpaceX May Look Expensive Today — Palantir Co-Founder Says It Could Look ‘Really Cheap’ In 10 Years
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