For The First Time, Scientists Say They’ve Built a Synthetic Cell From Scratch : ScienceAlert
Scientists from the University of Minnesota say they have created the first-ever synthetic cell built entirely from scratch,…
Astronomical Circumstances in July 2026
Two planets will dominate the sky in July: Venus will be prominent in the evening, situated low above…
The unsettling possibility raised by quantum gravity is that time may not be a basic ingredient of reality. It may be something that emerges only inside the universe, from entanglement, entropy, and relationships between physical systems — while the deeper quantum structure underneath may have no ticking clock at all.
The unsettling possibility in quantum gravity is not just that our clocks might be inaccurate. It is that…
Weatherwatch: Cleaner clouds may slow rate of global heating | Climate crisis
Cleaner clouds are helping to slow the rate of global heating, a study shows. Falling levels of dust…
This weird ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanet has a hotspot in the wrong place, and astronomers aren’t sure how
Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the universe, blazing gas giants like Jupiter or…
This Strange New Magnet Could Transform Future Electronics
An illustration of the atomic structure of altermagnets. Neighboring atoms are rotated and their magnetic spins are flipped.…
Evolutionary noncoding RNAs reveal new targets for cancer therapy
In cancer research, one person’s junk is increasingly becoming another person’s treasure. Scientists have now uncovered new evidence…
America at 250, Seen from Space
The mosaic stretches from the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest to the Everglades of Florida, and from the…
Scientists create quantum sound device that could transform communications
Researchers at McGill University have developed a new quantum device that generates tiny sound-like particles called phonons at…
Scientists reveal what really happens when water is trapped in tiny spaces
Water has been studied more than almost any other substance, yet scientists have long debated a surprisingly simple…
In 2024, engineers rescued Voyager 1 after it spent months transmitting gibberish, remotely rewriting and relocating pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip from more than 24 billion kilometres away.
In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1,…
What is a Lagrangian used for in physics?
This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that’s delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon.…