Guest Post: The Role of Silicon Photonics in Delivering Usable Quantum Computing
Guest post by Professor Callum Littlejohns, Deputy Director at CORNERSTONE, and Dr Amit Agrawal, Associate Professor in Optical…
Experts looked inside Cape Town’s largest predator. What they found has them worried
Most of Cape Town’s caracals have rat poison in their bodies. The discovery, reported in Environmental Pollution, raises concerns…
The Sky Today on Thursday, August 20: Dark, flat Plato
Back to Article List Set your sights on the Moon tonight to explore the crater Plato, as our…
How Africa Is Battling Climate Change and the Coming ‘Super’ El Niño
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: African countries respond to climate change-driven wildfires, drought,…
Armed with funding boost, SpaceSail accelerates China’s push to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink
In a record funding round for China’s satellite internet sector, domestic start-up SpaceSail has raised around 7 billion…
From equilibrium to ultrafast antiferromagnetism
Kittel, C. Introduction to Solid State Physics 8th edn (John Wiley, 2004). Curie, P. Sur la symétrie dans…
Orange lips and roaring calls: meet the DRC’s shy new rainforest monkey
There are 536 species of monkeys in the world today and the Democratic Republic of Congo has a…
The world banned CFCs and put the ozone layer on a path to recovery. Now thousands of dying satellites are introducing aluminium oxide nanoparticles into the upper atmosphere — particles scientists warn can catalyse the chlorine chemistry that destroys ozone.
The Montreal Protocol produced a result that can be measured in the atmosphere. Nearly all controlled ozone-depleting substances…
How Greenland’s summer landscapes are transforming
How Greenland’s summer landscapes are transforming – Futura-Sciences August 19, 2026 8 min Between the exploding vegetation and…
NASA Tests Featherweight Radar Antenna For SkyFall Mars Helicopters
After the little Mars helicopter Ingenuity blew everyone away with its performance, it was clear that a future…
Quantum Entanglement Generated From Sunlight For The First Time Ever
Entanglement is one of the best tricks in the quantum physics magic box, two particles that are inextricably…
Australia races to shield little penguins from H5N1 bird flu
“UNPRECEDENTED” In response, wildlife teams started to vaccinate birds in the colony this week, said James Todd, chief…