James Webb Space Telescope finds ‘hidden stars’ making the universe’s 1st galaxies much bigger than we knew
Imagine looking at a vast city on Earth from a great distance, knowing nothing about that city; you…
Chemistry in Pictures: Fluorescent side quest
Tatiana Munteanu was aiming to make light-activated molecular motors, part of a growing class of metamaterials that can…
Humans have learned to fear ‘bugs’, but we shouldn’t – life as we know it hinges on invertebrates | Chris Packham
Too many animals are regarded as “bugs”. And, if anything is a bug, it is a short step…
Muon Space raises $250 million to ramp up satellite production
TAMPA, Fla. — Muon Space has raised $250 million to fuel the small satellite specialist’s push into larger,…
Upconverting colloidal quantum dots bring ‘colour vision’ to the infrared – Physics World
Upconverting colloidal quantum dots bring ‘colour vision’ to the infrared – Physics World Skip to main content Discover…
'The fish is in the right', says man bitten after catching blue shark – BBC
‘The fish is in the right’, says man bitten after catching blue shark BBCSuccessful surgery for ‘very lucky’ shark…
Cold War nuclear tests nearly doubled the carbon-14 in the atmosphere, leaving an isotopic timestamp inside cells born during those decades — and researchers later used that accidental fallout to answer a question anatomy had failed to settle: whether the adult human heart can make new cells
Anyone alive in 1963 ate fallout. Not enough to hurt them, but enough to leave a mark, and…
Between six lanes of Manhattan traffic, Broadway’s medians are being replanted with native species to create a five-mile corridor for birds and bees
As of 2026, 12 malls have been restored. (Picture: BMA) In the middle of Manhattan, Broadway’s green medians…
What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 4: Looking For Us
(This is Part 4 of a series on what we can actually find on an exoplanet. Read Part…
Irreversibility and symmetry breaking in the creation and annihilation of defects in active living matter
Sanchez, T. Spontaneous motion in hierarchically assembled active matter. Nature 491, 431–434 (2012). Article ADS Google Scholar Guillamat,…
Orange lips and roaring calls: meet the DRC’s shy new rainforest monkey
There are 536 species of monkeys in the world today and the Democratic Republic of Congo has a…
A 96% partial lunar eclipse is just 1 week away: Here’s what you need to know
We’re just one week away from a stunning partial lunar eclipse on Aug. 27-28, when billions across North…