James Webb reveals Chariklo’s mysterious rings are changing faster than expected
For most of modern astronomy, rings were associated only with the Solar System’s giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,…
Making rocket fuel out of Mars’ thin air: New breakthrough could make it happen
Astronauts could travel back to Earth from Mars using rocket fuel converted directly from the carbon dioxide in…
Entanglement Survives Violence of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have confirmed that quantum entanglement — the phenomenon…
A mammoth-ivory hunter pulled a wolf’s head from the Siberian permafrost with its fur, whiskers and brain still intact — the animal had been dead for roughly 40,000 years
Forty thousand years in cold storage, and the animal still looked annoyed. That was roughly the scene on…
Scientists find a hidden retinal defense against vision loss
Many diseases that lead to vision loss have something important in common: they gradually damage the retina, the…
A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going
An iceberg from Petermann Glacier encounters Joe Island in northwestern Greenland, visible in images captured by the OLI…
Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night with NASA
In April, the world watched as four humans circled the Moon for the first time in over 50…
While a human operator reacts to a fusion plasma in seconds and its instabilities grow in thousandths of one, a controller ran a San Diego tokamak’s six microwave heaters 50 times a second, called a magnetic tear 200 milliseconds early and put current where it would have formed
KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 The PACMAN controller running on a real tokamak isn’t a chatbot bolted onto a press release —…
Ecologists fenced kangaroo rats out of plots in the Arizona desert to study competition among rodents — twelve years later, grass was three times denser and the desert had begun turning into grassland
Evicting the tenants turned out to be the fastest way to grow a lawn in the Chihuahuan Desert.…
Research team paves the way for compact, inexpensive free-electron lasers
Extremely short and intensive light flashes are in great demand to investigate atoms, molecules and new materials. free-electron…
How to help a lot of animals (without going vegetarian)
Many people, when they learn about the horrors of factory farming, become vegetarian or vegan. I’m one of…
SpaceX Sets Sept. 22 For Next Starship Flight Test
SpaceX Sets Sept. 22 For Next Starship Flight Test | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Irene…