Quantum Simulation Explained: Applications, Methods and Challenges
Insider Brief Quantum simulation uses quantum computers to model molecules, materials and other quantum systems that can be…
Watch Rocket Lab launch an Earth-observing radar satellite from New Zealand tonight
Rocket Lab will launch a Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit tonight (Sept. 18), and you can watch the…
After 30 years in hot-arid climate, Arco solar modules still deliver about half their original power
Researchers from Algeria’s Centre de Développement des Energies Renouvelables (CDER) have conducted a post-aging assessment of 30-year-old solar…
On this day in space! Sept. 18, 1977: NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft snaps stunning photo of Earth and the moon together from deep space
On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took its first photo of Earth and the moon. It…
Guest Post — The Quantum Inflection Point: Charting a Science-First Roadmap for the Nation
By Dr. Darío Gil, the Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. His office is…
A rare ‘born again’ star is changing again
One of the most rapidly changing stars ever seen, the “born-again” star called Sakurai’s Object has entered a…
Fighting Fire With Fire Could Save Giant Sequoias
A forester sprays a giant sequoia during a controlled burn in 2009 in Kings Canyon National Park. About…
Everyone talks about ‘equinox auroras’ — but the Harvest Moon may have other plans
Last winter I made two trips to see the aurora, one to northern Canada and the other to…
A 1,100 plasma campaign on a spherical tokamak in Oxfordshire hit the machine’s highest pressure without a single disruption, where the real result was 4 separate ways to tame the plasma edge
A vacuum vessel in Oxfordshire shaped less like a doughnut than a cored apple. Inside it the machine…
Three African wild dog brothers left their Zambian pack in 2025; eight months later, they had travelled 4,126 km, the longest recorded dispersal by an African mammal
Representative Image of African Wild Dogs (Image Credit: Canva) Three African wild dog brothers have turned an already…
Electrons seen melting from solid to liquid inside 2D semiconductor
Scientists in the US have developed a new approach that allowed them to directly observe how electrons move…
Taiwanese rubbish trucks play Beethoven as they drive, and residents come out and hand their sorted waste over in person because there are no communal bins to leave it in. The recycling rate went from around 5 percent in the late 1990s to over 50 percent, mostly by making people meet the truck.
The specific piece of music is Beethoven’s Für Elise, or occasionally Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska’s Maiden’s Prayer. It plays over…