No escape from thermodynamic limits
HOW do you explain what Charles Dickens called “The best of times, and the worst of times?” We…
Scientists filmed a sperm whale giving birth and watched females from another family line help bring the calf into the world — then repeatedly lift the newborn to the surface and support it there while it was still too weak and uncoordinated to swim properly on its own
Blood clouded the water off Dominica just before noon, and eleven sperm whales pressed in closer instead of…
After 8 years, Europe’s BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
But the propulsion module was no longer required, and BepiColombo needed to get rid of it before slipping…
Antarctica Gained a Record 695 Billion Tons of Ice in Just Two Years
A rare surge in Antarctic snowfall temporarily added hundreds of billions of tons of ice to East Antarctica,…
For nearly 50 years, Venus’s clouds have been understood as droplets of concentrated sulfuric acid—but a 2025 reinterpretation of data inadvertently collected by NASA’s Pioneer Venus Large Probe in 1978 suggests their aerosols may instead be about 60 per cent bound water by mass, locked largely inside hydrated iron and magnesium salts.
Venus’s brilliant cloud deck has been described for almost half a century as concentrated sulphuric-acid droplets suspended in…
Radiation changes hardness and stiffness in nuclear fuel, study finds
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have measured the mechanical properties of irradiated…
One of the largest spiders in the world remains largely unstudied
One of Earth’s largest spiders went by multiple scientific names for over a century, and the reason behind…
Scientists detect signals of hydrogen from billions of years ago. Could this help us map out the universe?
Astronomers have used the MeerKAT radio telescope to detect hydrogen gas billions of light-years away from us —…
France records its hottest summer
PARIS (AP) — France recorded its hottest summer since measurements began more than a century ago, the environment…
The DESI Legacy Imaging Survey Releases the Largest 2-D Map of the Universe
In 2012, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was commissioned to measure the effect of Dark Energy, the…
Niobium-tin superconductors scale up for 20-tesla fusion magnets
Fusion’s push toward commercial power is creating a new challenge for the industry to produce enough specialized material…
25 Amazing Animals with Astonishingly Unique and Rare Colors and Markings
We don’t need robot-generated images to appreciate how cool nature is. In a world full of generated images,…