Nuclear-powered heater keeps spacecraft alive through lunar night
Firefly Aerospace will send a nuclear-powered heating technology to the Moon in 2028, testing whether spacecraft can survive…
What Quantum Computing Can Do for Humanity — and South Chicago
Sitting in a swivel chair in a hotel conference room, Victor Peng stares out the window at the…
Photographer Captures Dramatic Moment Goslings Take 25 Foot Leap Of Faith From Nest
Every spring at the Julia Butler Hansen Refuge for the Columbian White-Tailed Deer, newborn goslings follow their parents’…
A mother’s age can shape her offspring without changing their DNA
A mother’s age can influence the physical traits and behavior of her offspring in humans and across many…
‘East Cork, it’s like the Sahara Desert’: Dread sets in as drought conditions continue
Irish farm advisors are dreading conversations with farmers as grass growth stalls and winter feed stocks come under…
NASA mission to save its sinking space telescope fails
A mission to prevent a NASA space telescope from coming to a fiery demise in Earth’s atmosphere has…
Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time
Practically all modern computers, from the cheap microcontroller in your dishwasher to high-tech hardware crunching numbers for artificial…
In 1968, a fire destroyed a naturalist’s isolated home and killed his otter; he moved to a tiny island to build a wildlife sanctuary | World News
Skye Bridge on Eilean Bàn. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons In January 1968, naturalist and author Gavin Maxwell lost…
Rescue mission for ageing Nasa space telescope fails
A mission to rescue Nasa’s ageing Swift observatory in space was cancelled on Wednesday after the spacecraft that…
Multiyear tropical warm pool warming drives slowdown in Antarctic mass loss
Data Ice mass variability was quantified using GRACE and GRACE-FO gravimetry data50 spanning 2003–2024. SMB (precipitation minus meltwater…
Two Photographers Spent a Year Planning the Perfect Eclipse Photo and Success Came Down to 30 Seconds
Canadian photographer Liron Gertsman and Texas-based bird photographer Tobias Yoder traveled together to Spain to try and pull…
Atomic-scale double-slit interferometry with a focused electron probe
Sample preparation and 4D-STEM A high-purity (99.999%), undoped, commercially available Si single crystal (Crystal Base Co., Ltd.) was…