Why is NZ spending far more on responding to climate disasters than on reducing future risk?
New Zealand is not on track to adapt to growing climate risks, nor is it cutting emissions quickly…
Nuclear-powered heater keeps spacecraft alive through lunar night
Firefly Aerospace will send a nuclear-powered heating technology to the Moon in 2028, testing whether spacecraft can survive…
What Quantum Computing Can Do for Humanity — and South Chicago
Sitting in a swivel chair in a hotel conference room, Victor Peng stares out the window at the…
In the late 1990s, tree frogs apparently reached the Galápagos in cargo; hundreds of thousands now occupy islands that had no native amphibians |
A green tree frog resting on the forest floor. Credits – Wikimedia Commons In the late 1990s, a…
A mother’s age can shape her offspring without changing their DNA
A mother’s age can influence the physical traits and behavior of her offspring in humans and across many…
Northern Lights Forecast: Here’s Where The Aurora Could Be Visible Tonight
Topline The northern lights could be visible on Wednesday night from some northern states, according to a forecast…
Scientists just found the fastest known star in the Milky Way. It zooms around our black hole at 15,500 miles per second
Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius A*,…
Atomic-scale double-slit interferometry with a focused electron probe
Sample preparation and 4D-STEM A high-purity (99.999%), undoped, commercially available Si single crystal (Crystal Base Co., Ltd.) was…
It’s snowing underwater? How in the great depths of the ocean there’s a constant blizzard of ‘snow’
In the ocean, it never stops snowing. The ‘snow’ is a shower of dead microscopic organisms, faeces, mucous,…
Rescue mission for ageing Nasa space telescope fails
A mission to rescue Nasa’s ageing Swift observatory in space was cancelled on Wednesday after the spacecraft that…
Multiyear tropical warm pool warming drives slowdown in Antarctic mass loss
Data Ice mass variability was quantified using GRACE and GRACE-FO gravimetry data50 spanning 2003–2024. SMB (precipitation minus meltwater…
Webb Captures the Treasure Chest at the Heart of the Carina Nebula
The Carina Nebula (NGC 3324), located about 7,500 light-years away in the constellation Carina (the Keel), is one…