Astrophysicist Meg Urry’s Summer Reading Picks
Yale’s Meg Urry has spent her career investigating the mysteries of the universe, and her summer reading includes…
The real-life “Nemo” could no longer tolerate the warming ocean, so it began shrinking to avoid abandoning its anemone
In Kimbe Bay, the normally warm waters are heating even more. Clownfish are increasingly reverting to their iconic…
Where to watch next week’s solar eclipse in Waterford – News
South East Astronomy are hosting a viewing meet up for next week’s solar eclipse. The eclipse is due…
Time-domain identification of distinct mechanisms for competing charge density waves in a rare-earth tritelluride
Goldenfeld, N. Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group (CRC Press, 2018). Zong, A. et al. Dynamical…
In the 1970s, a Kenyan conservationist spent years perfecting milk for baby elephants: Her formula has helped save more than 300
Baby elephant with keeper | Wikimedia Commons Until the 1970s, orphaned baby elephants rarely survived in human care.…
Astronomers Find a New Object from the Early Universe Using Webb Data
On July 12th, 2022, the first images acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were released to…
Meta ruled a “public nuisance,” ordered to pay $567 million
Months after being fined $375 million by a New Mexico judge and being found liable for harm perpetrated…
NASA’s SkyFall Mars helicopters will wear tiny capes
Picture it: A swarm of tiny robot helicopters descends through a reddish-brown sky, landing gracefully on the Martian…
Touch, play, wonder: Exhibition in Bengaluru makes quantum physics accessible | Bengaluru News
Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB) announces its newest year long exhibition season, QUANTUM, in Bengaluru on Friday.Science Gallery Bengaluru…
Their lipid- and protein-laden bodies create unique, nutrient-rich ecosystems that may sustain creatures of the abyss for decades…
Dead whales sink to the ocean floor, reaching depths of several thousand metres relatively intact. Their lipid- and…
Two habitable-zone planets now sit within 11 light-years of Earth: Proxima Centauri b at 4.24 light-years, confirmed years ago, and GJ 887 d at 10.7 light-years, confirmed only in 2026 — both orbiting red dwarfs, and both raising more questions than they answer
Eleven light-years is a tiny distance on a galactic map. Within that radius, astronomers now know of two…
In 2012, a wildfire scorched 42 sq km of the Rwenzori alpine zone; lake cores showed it was the first large-scale fire there in 12,000 years, with charcoal jumping over 100-fold
Representative Image (AI-generated) A wildfire that swept through the high-altitude alpine zone of Africa’s Rwenzori Mountains in 2012…