On this day in space! Aug. 6, 2012: NASA lands huge Curiosity rover on Mars with a rocket-powered sky crane
On Aug. 6, 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface. At the time, the…
A German fusion machine runs on 50 superconducting coils chilled to 270 degrees below zero, each one a shape no person could have drawn and only a supercomputer could work out, and it held a plasma for 43 seconds before its own institute walked the record back
KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X stellarator made global headlines for beating tokamaks at their own game — then its…
We need a wartime mindset to fight the threat of wildfires | Seth Klein
As France and Spain battle historic wildfires, comparisons to the second world war abound. “One of the continent’s…
Rocket Lab launches 8th iQPS satellite
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab launched a Japanese radar-imaging satellite Aug. 6, more than a month after the previous…
Photons for Reach, Atoms for Entanglement: A Compound Photon-Atom Blueprint for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
By combining the long-range connectivity of photonic qubits with near-deterministic entanglement mediated by cavity-coupled atoms, Quantum Source’s new…
What happens to elephants that stray from Kruger Park? South African policy needs a rewrite
When an elephant wandered out of South Africa’s Kruger National Park into the nearby village of Matsulu on…
Cell-inspired nanoreactor turns sunlight into hydrogen peroxide
Researchers have created a hollow CdS@polydopamine nanoreactor that imitates two important features of living cells. The design offers…
“You can hear them talking to each other through your hull.” Sailor alone at sea for a week. Then this happens
A sailor who is attempting to complete a solo voyage of the Arctic Ocean has shared footage of…
Guest Post: From the Cosmos to Quantum Computers
Guest Post by Michael Osei, M.Sc. in Physics. Press release – Quantum technology can sound like science fiction:…
Israel’s ultimate stargazing guide: don’t miss August’s spectacular Perseid meteor sh
A meteor is a tiny fragment of rock or dust that enters Earth’s atmosphere at tremendous speed, creating…
All bodies of water in England polluted with toxic chemicals, official data shows | Water
Every single English water body is polluted with toxic chemicals, new government data shows, while just 14.3% of…
How the Tide Turns at the Mouth of the Elbe
One of the major rivers of Europe, the Elbe flows more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) across the…