Rare-earth compound shows strange liquid crystal-like magnetism
A strange magnetic state inside a compound called YbMnBi₂ could help explain one of its most unusual electrical…
Here’s How Fast SpaceX Must Grow to Be a $5 Trillion Company by 2030
Space Exploration Technologies’ (NASDAQ: SPCX) market cap is currently hovering around $2 trillion. So, for it to reach…
Helmut Katzgraber (55North): Why materials simulation beats optimization for near-term quantum
Yuval Boger interviews Helmut Katzgraber, general partner at 55North and former quantum leader at AWS. They discuss Helmut’s…
Victor Glover, Artemis 2 pilot: ‘This race, for us, is not about beating China to the Moon. We will, but this race is to get humans to Mars’ | Science
Five months ago, four excited girls walked into a maximum-security area with their mother wearing the same black…
In 2015, 2kg of rocket seeds went to the space station; after their return, 600,000 UK children helped test them, and researchers found they grew more slowly but remained viable
Tim PeakePhoto credit: Esa.int ESA astronaut Tim Peake took 2kg of rocket seeds to the International Space Station…
Singapore scientists build world’s most accurate clock — it loses one second in 260 billion years
SINGAPORE, Oct 3 — Scientists in Singapore have built the world’s most accurate atomic clock, a device so…
Astronomers Detected Radio Signals From An Alien Planet
Astronomers are always on the lookout for radio signals from outer space.…
The search for life on Mars begins with ‘Charlie’ in Spain’s Almería desert | Science
A team of engineers and scientists has brought a machine from the future to the Tabernas desert in…
APOD: 2026 October 3 – Selfie at Vera Rubin Ridge
Explanation: On sol 1943 of its journey of exploration across the surface of Mars, the Curiosity Rover recorded…
A Few Picoseconds Reveal Superconductivity’s Hidden Breaking Point
A current pulse lasting only a few picoseconds passes through a superconductor before magnetic vortices have time to…
Dead star orbiting a neutron star ‘cosmic lighthouse’ is at a rarely seen stage of its afterlife
Astronomers have caught a white dwarf, the type of stellar remnant the sun will leave when it dies,…
The final showdown of Alaska's Fat Bear Week is between these two units – Stuff
The final showdown of Alaska’s Fat Bear Week is between these two units StuffFirst Hollywood, now Fat Bear Week:…