Scientists Are Still Trying To Understand How the Moon Formed
The Giant Impact Hypothesis says that about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized world named Theia slammed into…
Single-mode lasers before the merger
A central problem in semiconductor lasers is deceptively simple: how can one increase optical performance without allowing unwanted…
Matters of the heart: what’s a blue whale’s heartbeat telling us?
The study found that heart rate immediately after a lunge jumped to around 22 beats per minute in…
In March 2025 a French Navy drone was mapping the seabed south of Saint-Tropez when its sonar picked up something large that nobody had recorded. A camera sent down after it found a merchant ship from the 1500s lying 2,567 meters down, the deepest known wreck in French waters.
The drone was not looking for a shipwreck. It was working through a stretch of seabed off Ramatuelle,…
Astronomers detect ancient hydrogen signal that could help map the Universe
Astronomers have directly detected an extraordinarily faint radio signal from hydrogen gas billions of light-years away, demonstrating a…
Physicists Find Useful Energy Hiding in Quantum “Waste Heat”
An atom in a cavity between two mirrors (left) acts as a heat engine in a driven-dissipative quantum…
New Owl Species Discovered in Peru
A horned owl living in a narrow strip of high-Andean grassland in northern Peru is a species new…
Leap second proposal will keep software stacks in sync
“That means an enterprise does not only have to worry about what its own servers do. It has…
From the Corps to the Cosmos, featuring Jaden Caradine
Jaden Caradine knew he wanted to be an engineer at eight years old. He just took a winding…
Rice University physicists used a grain-of-sand-sized magnet levitated above a superconductor cooled to near absolute zero to search for ultraheavy dark matter. Results presented in September 2026 found no signal but probed particles approximately 10 million times heavier than those examined in previous levitated-particle experiments.
A tiny magnet floating above a superconductor has given physicists a way to test an unusually heavy set…
Nepal’s farmers built terraces into steep Himalayan slopes; now growing macaque populations are making it harder to keep their harvests |
Nepal’s mid-hills are places where farming has long meant working with the landscape rather than against it. Terraces…
Wind turbines are built for gusts near 120 miles an hour, so the 10 steel towers a radar truck watched fold across three Iowa wind farms were carrying almost three times that
A wind turbine tower is a tube, not a post. It carries the machine on top by keeping…