Renowned Expert Elevates UConn Quantum Research
UConn has found its ideal expert to advance its rise as a leader in interdisciplinary quantum research. Internationally…
2,800+ wolves killed, nearly $10 million spent and 15 caribou herds still at risk: Why scientists say British Columbia is targeting the wrong problem
Since 2015, British Columbia has killed 200-300 wolves annually to help endangered caribou populations recover. Recently, the provincial…
How did the infant sun form? Scientists get surprising new insights from 4.6-billion-year-old space dust
New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a “fossil record” dating back to the formation of the…
India proposes mandatory battery storage for new renewable projects from July 2027
India plans to mandate battery storage for all new government solar and wind projects from July 2027, to…
America’s first reconnaissance satellite began as range calculations an engineer penciled on a paper placemat while snowed into a Pennsylvania restaurant, and when it reached orbit in June 1960 its cover story was a real scientific experiment, one whose purpose was to measure radiation from the Sun
The National Reconnaissance Office has published its own account of how the United States put a reconnaissance satellite…
Relativistic position verification with coherent states
Secure score with coherent states In quantum communication practice, using weak coherent states is much more convenient than…
Deep in the Amazon, researchers found birds and monkeys passing predator warnings from one species to another — a single alarm can ripple through the canopy as other animals hear it, react and pass the danger on
A hawk slips between the leaves, and the forest immediately starts talking behind its back. In a remote…
In 2019, astronomers linked eight radio observatories spread across four continents into a single virtual telescope the size of Earth, and after two years of assembling five petabytes of recorded data by hand, the combined instrument produced the first-ever photograph of a black hole’s shadow.
The Event Horizon Telescope isn’t really one telescope. It’s a case study in what happens when a scientific…
Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning | El Niño southern oscillation
British people have been urged to have enough food and water on hand to survive a few days…
The 300-year-old tool helping stranded astronauts get home
For Mars missions, those navigational points may include asteroids, Holt says. “We would say [to the astronaut], we…
In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures
But the relief when I admitted to somebody that I didn’t know something was palpable. It was amazing.…
In 1995, Canada eradicated rats from British Columbia’s Langara Island; by 2004, ancient murrelet pairs had nearly doubled to 20,000–30,000 | World News
Image of an Ancient Murrelet. Credits – Wikimedia Commons Islands have long been risky places for ground-nesting birds…