No more leap seconds! Timekeeping is officially changing
The world’s timekeepers announced on Thursday that leap seconds will no longer be added to clocks starting in…
Did the universe begin at a single point, or has it always been infinite?
Bjørn Ludvigsen, a reader, has submitted a question to Science Norway: ‘It is assumed that the Big Bang…
Man in Japan says monkey threw his cat into a pond before attacking him
Yamaguchi primate decides to pick fights with two other species. After several months of bears dominating reports of…
Mysterious ‘Golden Tree’ Coral Is So Weird, Scientists Had to Create a New Family on The Tree of Life : ScienceAlert
In the twilight deeps of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, a magical sight can be found on a seamount…
Microplastics Are Chemically Alive and Probably Up to No Good
Many scientists have argued that microplastics pose a real, if often subtle, threat to human health. A study…
In the Search for Exoplanets, Some Failures Are A Success
In the near future, powerful new telescopes will power a big leap in exoplanet science. Telescopes like the…
Physicists find evidence of weird quantum ‘Bethe strings’ nearly 100 years after they were predicted
“Necklaces” of ultracold atoms have provided new evidence to support a nearly 100-year-old quantum theory. In 1931, physicists…
Honeybees push wild pollinators off flowers without even touching them
Honeybees are pushing wild pollinators away from flowers, raising concerns about competition for food and the impact of…
NASA’s ISS Crew-12 Returnees Reflect On Lengthy Mission
NASA’s ISS Crew-12 Returnees Reflect On Lengthy Mission | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Mark Carreau…
What is Starshield, SpaceX’s military version of Starlink?
Ukraine said on Wednesday that Elon Musk’s SpaceX had restricted “military-grade” Starlink services, hampering Ukrainian drone strike missions…
Cavity-less Brillouin strong coupling in a solid-state continuous system
Novotny, L. Strong coupling, energy splitting, and level crossings: a classical perspective. Am. J. Phys. 78, 1199–1202 https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3471177…
Whalefall true story: How realistic is the movie? A sperm whale biologist weighs in.
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