ALMA Reveals Betelgeuse’s Fiery, Long-Lived Hot Spots
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have captured stunning new images of the surface of Betelgeuse, the…
French Sunday and the Italian month off | France
As I write this, I’m enjoying my French Sunday (Polly Hudson, 23 August) with a croissant from the…
Meteorite dust holds records of magnetism that may have helped form the sun | MIT News
Magnetic fields are generated by matter that is electrically charged and moving around. In the very early solar…
NIST Researchers Supersize Quantum Technology to Help Detect Faint Photons
In this illustration, photons hit a strip of superconducting wire, disrupting the electric current and registering an electric…
Humpback whales are interrupting orca hunts to rescue completely different species, swimming underneath a doomed seal and lifting it out of the water on their chest, or forming a wall between the killers and a grey whale calf, and scientists still can’t fully explain why they bother to save animals they have nothing to gain from
It’s not a story anyone would have believed if it weren’t so thoroughly documented. A pod of killer…
Water covers about 71 per cent of Earth’s surface, yet the entire hydrosphere accounts for only about 0.02 per cent of Earth’s mass — almost all of the planet’s mass is rock and metal beneath it
Ask most people what Earth is made of and, somewhere in the back of the mind, the answer…
Renewable Energy Industry Is Starting to Spend Big on Elections
The fossil fuel industry has long been a campaign finance powerhouse, using its clout to help put sympathetic…
NASA Research Shows How Sun’s Ancient History Shaped Earth
At the center of our solar system, the Sun influences every planet that orbits it. In two recent NASA-funded studies, scientists uncovered how ancient…
EuroHPC Opens €119M in Funding Calls for Quantum Technologies
Insider Brief The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has launched six calls totaling €119 million to advance quantum computing, quantum…
Conservationists carry the eggs of the world’s rarest duck for 44km on foot. Here’s why
After heavy rainfall threatened nests of the Madagascar pochard, the world’s rarest duck, conservationists collected its eggs from…
Watch SpaceX set rocket-reuse record on 100th Falcon 9 launch of the year early Aug. 25
Starlink launches may have become commonplace, but this one’s definitely worth staying up for. A SpaceX Falcon 9…
A landslide at a landfill in the capital of Guinea kills 30 people, officials say
Conakry, GuineaAP — A mountainous heap of refuse collapsed at the largest landfill in Guinea‘s capital of Conakry early…