High-speed centrifuges recycle nuclear fuel to tap 90% wasted energy
Spent nuclear fuel could become easier to recycle with a high-speed chemical separation system being developed by Argonne…
NASA spots crater on the moon created by SpaceX rocket crash
A NASA spacecraft in orbit around the moon captured dramatic images of the impact crater left when a…
Nvidia Bets on the Classical Side of Quantum Computing
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Vampire bats will regurgitate blood to save a starving roost-mate, even one they are not related to — then remember who helped them before, in a system of animal reciprocity that looks less like instinct than a tiny favour economy
Somewhere in a hollow tree in Panama, a bat that came home hungry is being fed by a…
Meet Bataspis crux, Jawless Fish that Cruised Devonian Seas with Batwing Head
Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of armored, jawless fish from rocks around 419 million years…
On 13 April 2029, a roughly 375-metre asteroid named Apophis will pass closer to Earth than some of our own satellites — just 32,000 kilometres above the surface — and new calculations suggest up to 90% of humanity could potentially see it cross the sky with the naked eye.
On 13 April 2029, asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass roughly 32,000 kilometres above Earth’s surface. For a few…
Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century
With this machinery, Wilson solved the mystery of why many magnets magnetize at the same rate. The zooming-out…
Sea otters have the densest fur of any mammal on Earth, up to one million hairs per square inch, because unlike whales and seals they carry no insulating blubber and would freeze to death in the North Pacific without a coat that traps a layer of air against their skin
A sea otter floating on its back off the California coast is wearing the densest fur of any…
Quantum engines enter the real world: Tiny superconducting device could build computers of the future
Scientists at Finland’s Aalto University have successfully built and operated the world’s first cyclic superconducting quantum heat engine,…
NASA astronaut and 1st female French spacewalker remove failed antenna, but run out of time for replacement
Two astronauts — including the first French woman in history to perform a spacewalk — worked outside of…
van der Waals Josephson junctions for quantum science and technology
Devoret, M. H. & Schoelkopf, R. J. Superconducting circuits for quantum information: an outlook. Science 339, 1169–1174 (2013).…
Alaska’s live bearcam has become a summer hit: 7.3 million views in six weeks as brown bears gather at Brooks Falls to catch salmon
The cameras show brown bears waiting around Brooks Falls as sockeye salmon travel upstream. (Getty images) A livestream…