October 9, 2026 Researchers make ‘molecular movies’ with powerful X-rays to help advance therapeutics
Researchers used SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source to study the AspH enzyme – a potential therapeutic target for…
Germany’s telescoping wind turbine becomes world’s tallest
Germany is taking wind power to new heights with a turbine almost as tall as Berlin’s iconic television…
Hubble Space Telescope may have found a planet born after its star died
Astronomers revisiting decades-old observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found a new clue in a long-running cold…
Tuning a quantum computer: what a violin teaches us about qubit calibration Qubit calibration explained: tuning a quantum computer
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Newly selected NASA mission will hunt for caves on the Moon
The Marius Hills Pit is a large hole, approximately 213 by 295 feet (65 by 90 meters), located…
Solar power is helping the Global South skip fossil fuels
As emerging economies and global living standards rise, is the world in for another fossil fuel boom? The…
NASA Just Made Nearly 1 TB of Artemis II Data Available to the Public
NASA has just released about 800 gigabytes of scientific data generated by the Artemis II mission. The archive…
British soldier regiment ‘Lions of England’ stalked by pack of hyenas in Kenya
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Scientists create a lightsaber-like laser antenna that transmits radio waves
Scientists have demonstrated a new type of radio antenna that looks remarkably like a lightsaber. Instead of using…
U.S. Oil Drilling Continues to Inch Upward
By Julianne Geiger – Oct 09, 2026, 12:31 PM CDT The total number of active drilling rigs for…
NASA Demonstrates Next-Generation Heat Shield Technologies
NASA is testing heat shields that can keep astronauts safe as they return from missions to the Moon…
Atomic-scale visualization of three-dimensional magnetization vectors with competing spin Hamiltonian interactions
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