On this day in space! Sept. 18, 1977: NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft snaps stunning photo of Earth and the moon together from deep space
On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took its first photo of Earth and the moon. It…
Guest Post — The Quantum Inflection Point: Charting a Science-First Roadmap for the Nation
By Dr. Darío Gil, the Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. His office is…
Whale watching in the Philippines brings to mind Jonah’s ‘leviathan’
A crucial part of the Book of Jonah, which we read during the afternoon service on Yom Kippur,…
US scientists resolve uncertainty in strontium formation in stars
Scientists at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) and Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) in the…
Fighting Fire With Fire Could Save Giant Sequoias
A forester sprays a giant sequoia during a controlled burn in 2009 in Kings Canyon National Park. About…
Quiz of the week: how long could a lunar city survive? – Physics World
Quiz of the week: how long could a lunar city survive? – Physics World Skip to main content…
A 1,100 plasma campaign on a spherical tokamak in Oxfordshire hit the machine’s highest pressure without a single disruption, where the real result was 4 separate ways to tame the plasma edge
A vacuum vessel in Oxfordshire shaped less like a doughnut than a cored apple. Inside it the machine…
Three African wild dog brothers left their Zambian pack in 2025; eight months later, they had travelled 4,126 km, the longest recorded dispersal by an African mammal
Representative Image of African Wild Dogs (Image Credit: Canva) Three African wild dog brothers have turned an already…
Tech billionaires trying to live for ever? That’s a waste of time, says physicist | Physics
Tech billionaires attempting to live for ever are, quite literally, wasting their time, a leading physicist has said.…
Taiwanese rubbish trucks play Beethoven as they drive, and residents come out and hand their sorted waste over in person because there are no communal bins to leave it in. The recycling rate went from around 5 percent in the late 1990s to over 50 percent, mostly by making people meet the truck.
The specific piece of music is Beethoven’s Für Elise, or occasionally Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska’s Maiden’s Prayer. It plays over…
Pikachu in space! New ESA-Pokemon partnership sends the electric mouse to the ISS
Pikachu is one of Earth’s newest outer space ambassadors, thanks to a new partnership. The European Space Agency…
2D magnets convert microwaves to light for future quantum networks
A layered magnetic semiconductor could help solve one of the toughest problems in quantum networking. Researchers want to…