Quantum Computing Challenges Holding Back Practical Quantum Computers
Insider Brief Quantum computing still faces major hardware, error correction, scaling, software and workforce challenges before it can…
When threatened it slips into a crevice and inflates its body like a rubber raft. Within seconds, it’s twice its original size and wedged in place.
The so-called swell shark cephaloscylum ventriosum, which is found near temperate reefs in the eastern Pacific ocean, truly…
For nearly 50 years, Venus’s clouds have been understood as droplets of concentrated sulfuric acid—but a 2025 reinterpretation of data inadvertently collected by NASA’s Pioneer Venus Large Probe in 1978 suggests their aerosols may instead be about 60 per cent bound water by mass, locked largely inside hydrated iron and magnesium salts.
Venus’s brilliant cloud deck has been described for almost half a century as concentrated sulphuric-acid droplets suspended in…
Magnitude 5 Earthquake Hits Tibet 7 Days After Deadly “Himalayan Tsunami”
An earthquake of magnitude 5 struck Tibet on Thursday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The earthquake…
Milky Way at the dining table: Bath art show celebrates 18th-century brother and sister astronomers | Astronomy
From the garden of their Georgian townhouse in Bath in the late 18th century, a brother and sister…
Walking the Line | Nat Geo Photo of the Day
Highliner Gabriel Camolesi rides a unicycle along a tightrope in New South Wales, Australia, with a full moon…
Peter Beck’s Neutron Rocket Could Slip to 2027. Here’s How Much the Delay Actually Matters.
In the summer of 2025, I took a little road trip — all the way out to the…
He began studying the Amazon in the 1970s; 50 years later, Philip Fearnside’s research has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon on account of deforestation, dams and highways
Philip Fearnside’s research has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon on account of deforestation, dams and highways…
Quiz of the week: how much data will NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope produce each day? – Physics World
Quiz of the week: how much data will NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope produce each day? – Physics…
Pulsar Timing Arrays Could Look for Evidence of Dark Matter Stars
Pulsars are incredibly precise cosmic clocks. So precise that we can use them to measure subtle changes in…
Lone Malaysian elephant, who went viral for walking 100 km with an injured leg amid traffic to return to his herd, finds new home
Lone Malaysian elephant Sulong Challi who walked 100 km probably in search of his herd has been relocated…
Life evolved thanks to an giant poop explosion, say scientists
We may have a huge poop explosion to thank for the existence of complex life on Earth, according…