Quantum memory stores single photons for record time in major leap towards a quantum internet
Researchers stored telecom-heralded single photons for up to 180 microseconds in a solid-state quantum memory while preserving nonclassical…
Europe just built a 10-ton giant telescope that can study 1,000 stars at once
Europe just built a 10-ton giant telescope that can study 1,000 stars at once – Futura-Sciences September 25,…
A 9-Million-Year-Old Tooth Just Challenged What Scientists Thought They Knew About the Atacama Desert
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a group of Cardiatherium, a genus of extinct, direct relatives of modern capybaras, pictured in…
‘Everything we know about space travel is going to change within a decade’: The fusion breakthrough that could unlock a path to the stars
Fusion-powered space travel has long held the promise of rapid trips across the solar system: Mars in weeks,…
Earth’s first bats didn’t come from where we thought, landmark genetic study reveals
Scientists may have settled a decades-long debate about bat evolution, including controversial questions about when bats began to…
Fossilized Vomit Reveals a Surprising Secret About Plesiosaur Behavior
Artist’s impression of plesiosaurs feeding on the sea floor. Credit: Lente ArtemieffUnusual fossils from an ancient North Sea…
Marmite smears, live locusts to celebrate Orana Wildlife Park’s 50th birthday
Gibbons at Christchurch’s Orana Wildlife Park have been treated to smears of Marmite and peanut butter on poles,…
Astronomers Believe The Solar System Once Had Nine Planets
Jack Parinussa/Shutterstock Several decades ago, we thought the…
APOD: 2026 September 26 – Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way
Explanation: On August 15, this perseid meteor streaked through night skies over the Observatorio del Roque de los…
Sebastian Hassinger (The New Quantum Era): why neutral atoms lead the qubit race for now
Yuval Boger interviews Sebastian Hassinger, host of The New Quantum Era podcast, and author of a new book…
New hairy-legged, three-lipped, red-eyed sea spider species discovered
EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing…
Turns out, finger ratios don’t predict how men treat women
In 2015, researchers reported a wonderfully strange finding: men whose index fingers were relatively short compared with their…