England is notoriously rainy — yet an ‘exceptionally serious’ drought has hit half the nation
London — England is notoriously rainy — yet an “exceptionally serious” drought has hit half the nation after successive…
An abandoned SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the Moon
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida…
World-first photonic time crystal opens a new era of light control
An international research team has experimentally produced the first all-optical photonic time crystal (PTC), a material designed to…
Submersible stumbles upon prehistoric animal 365m deep in Pacific darkness
Ocean researchers have shared the extraordinary moment a nautilus swam right up to their underwater vehicle to say hello. Marine…
World-first photonic time crystal opens a new era of light control
An international research team has experimentally produced the first all-optical photonic time crystal (PTC), a material designed to…
New solar panels in Great Britain at 15-year high as fossil fuel costs soar | Solar power
Great Britain has recorded more new solar power installations in the first half of this year than in…
APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
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UC San Diego Advances Quantum Metamaterials for Ultrafast Optical Computing
National Science Foundation GovernmentUnited States · 1001-5000 FTEs The National Science Foundation, situated in Alexandria, Virginia, is a…
The Arctic Ocean keeps permafrost carbon firmly locked
image: Permafrost in the Arctic stores large quantities of organic carbon. When the frozen ground thaws or coastal…
‘Extremely scary findings’ show climate crisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather | Wildfires
The extreme heat and drought stoking huge wildfires in Spain and France were made far more likely by…
It Took a Century, but Astronomers Imaged Betelgeuse’s Companion
Most of us are familiar with Betelgeuse (also known as alpha Orionis), the bright shoulder star in the…
America cancelled the world’s most powerful particle collider, leaving a 22.5-km tunnel hidden beneath Texas for more than 30 years | World News
A vast underground tunnel system stretching 22.5 kilometres still lies hidden beneath the fields of Texas, marking the…