SpaceX plans $100B Louisiana launch site for Starship rockets
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry discuss the company’s planned $100 billion launch complex and…
MIT scientists watched electrons rebuild inside a quantum material; one phase grew like an ice crystal |
Deep inside a crystal cooled to nearly -230°C, MIT physicists have caught something rarely seen in quantum materials:…
A pet cow has been filmed picking up a handheld brush and flipping it — bristled side against her back and flanks, smooth handle for the sensitive skin of her udder and legs — adjusting her grip by body region, in what researchers call the first documented case of flexible tool use in cattle
Veronika, a thirteen-year-old Swiss Brown cow living on a small organic farm in Nötsch im Gailtal, Austria, picks…
8 deadliest deserts on the planet and some of the dangerous wildlife you’ll find lurking there
From temperatures that push the human body to its limits to landscapes where rain can be absent for…
NASA Johnson Pilots Chase Moon’s Shadow for Eclipse Science
During the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse over Europe, scientists aimed to study a long-standing mystery: why the Sun’s outer…
Researchers Overcome Key Hurdle in Protein Engineering
At a glance: A new tool allows researchers to design and produce synthetic proteins faster, more safely, and…
The policy relevance of climate-change scenarios for biodiversity research
Pörtner, H.-O. et al. Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts. Science 380, eabl4881…
Astronomers discover hot watery exoplanet destined to be swallowed by its star
Astronomers have discovered a new ocean world outside the solar system that orbits extremely close to its parent…
Physicists Use Sound Waves to Keep Quantum Information from Slipping Away
A team of physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has found…
Mood-boosting benefits of birdsong drowned out by traffic noise, study finds | Birds
Hearing the trill or whistle of a bird while going about daily life is well known to boost…
NYC Lunar Eclipse 2026: When to See the Blood Moon
New Yorkers may want to keep one eye on the sky (and the other on the weather app)…
First full-stack neutral-atom quantum computer debuts with 50 qubits
Japan’s first operational full-stack neutral-atom quantum computer, which packs approximately 50 qubits at launch and could eventually reach…