Shanghai starts work on wharf for its “Rocket City”
HELSINKI — Shanghai has begun construction on a wharf intended to connect a planned commercial rocket manufacturing hub…
Types of Quantum Computers: 6 Major Quantum Computing Approaches
Insider Brief Quantum computing hardware approaches vary widely, with superconducting, trapped-ion, photonic, neutral-atom, topological and annealing systems making…
In 2016, a New Zealand ranger became the only human living on a predator-free island; he stayed to guard the last refuge of the world’s heaviest parrot | World News
Kakapo Pounamu, showing how the bird’s plumage acts as camouflage in vegetation. Credits – Wikimedia Commons Off the…
Microbes are living at pH 12 — roughly the alkalinity of bleach — inside mud volcanoes on the Mariana forearc, and there are so few of them that DNA testing fails to find them at all; researchers had to identify them by the fats they left behind
Deep in the Mariana forearc, the stretch of seafloor west of the Mariana Trench, mud volcanoes vent fluid…
Why poetry is a powerful form of climate communication
For too long, climate communication has relied on the belief that if we stick with the science and…
In pictures – the Blood Moon lunar eclipse wows stargazers across America and Europe
The 28 August 2026 partial lunar eclipse was visible over North and South America, the UK and Europe…
Interfacial Phenomena in Droplets: Instabilities, Impact, Wetting and Drying
Droplets are where a great deal of interesting fluid mechanics happens, and the interface is where it is…
Astronomers identified a dwarf-planet candidate beyond Neptune in 2025 whose orbit lasts nearly 24,000 years and carries it beyond the survey’s detection range for 99.5% of the journey — so finding even one suggests roughly 200 similar worlds may be circling unseen.
One faint point of light cannot be turned into 200 discovered worlds. It can, however, expose how incomplete…
The Guardian view on the Nepal-Tibet floods: prepare for more climate-linked disasters | Editorial
Thousands of people in Nepal and Tibet are in desperate need of emergency assistance following Wednesday’s disaster. With…
Why Astronauts’ Lower Eyelids “Let Go” in Space
It’s no secret that spending time in space takes a toll on the human body. Thanks to decades…
Higher-Energy X-Rays Could Enable a New Form of Quantum Sensing
Insider Brief Researchers used entangled electrons in helium atoms to produce higher-energy X-rays beyond the limit predicted by…
Once a hunter, now a protector: The dying animal that changed Anil Mistry’s life and led him to save 70 tigers
For years, the forest had been a source of survival for Anil Mistry. He had grown up in…