IBM’s quantum computer cuts error rates 10x in 15-minute test
IBM and University of Chicago researchers have demonstrated a quantum computing system that they say can perform a…
Routine Health Data Is Outperforming Trial Data for AI Training. The FDA Hasn’t Caught Up.
Three converging developments in the past eight months point to a trend that clinical operations teams have not…
Spain Offers €1 Billion in Bid to Host Thirty Meter Telescope
Credit: TMT Spain has offered a package worth up to €1 billion to support the construction of the…
Scientists Who Uncovered Altermagnetism Win Major Physics Honor
Altermagnetic crystal: not only the directions of spin polarization (in magenta and cyan) alternate on neighboring magnetic atoms,…
Falls in whale sightings, rare seabirds appearing – is something unusual happening in the Southern Ocean?
In late June, whale watchers in southwest Western Australia sounded the alarm. They had seen far fewer humpback…
The Sky Today on Saturday, August 1: Open cluster NGC 6709
Back to Article List This rich grouping of young suns shines brightly in Aquila the Eagle, ripe for…
On this day in space! July 31, 1971: Apollo 15 astronauts drive on the moon for 1st time
On July 31, 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts drove on the moon for the first time. David Scott, the…
These crows may not survive because of how they look. Nature is red in tooth and claw – The Irish Times
This year a pair of hooded crows have nested somewhere near our garden near Derry (incidentally displacing the…
Why NASA Is About To Fly Into Iceland’s Total Solar Eclipse
Topline Scientists are preparing an ambitious series of scientific missions for Aug. 12, 2026, when the moon’s narrow…
Europa is smaller than Earth’s Moon, yet the ocean locked beneath its ice contains more liquid water than every ocean on Earth combined — kept from freezing not by sunlight, but by Jupiter’s gravity squeezing the moon like a slow, endless fist
Europa is smaller than Earth’s Moon, but there may be more liquid water inside it than in every…
Study Shows Prehistoric People Targeted Female Mammoths
Woolly mammoths were a favorite hunting target for Ice Age people in Eurasia and North America for many…
Saturn’s moon Titan has rivers of liquid methane longer than the Nile’s tributaries, but a 2025 Brown University study found that only 1.3% of those rivers form deltas — on Earth, nearly every river does, and nobody yet knows why Titan’s don’t
There is a 400-kilometre river system near the north pole of Titan that drains into a sea larger…