How Reliable Are Quantum Batteries?
September 15, 2026• Physics 19, s114 Increasing the charging rate of a quantum battery leads to unavoidable fluctuations…
In 1949, researchers testing underwater acoustics off Bermuda lowered an early recording system into the water and kept the unexplained sounds it picked up. Seventy-seven years later they were identified as what may be the oldest preserved recording of a whale singing, made before scientists understood humpback whale song.
A man’s voice reads a date onto a plastic disc. “The date, 7 March, 1949,” he says, as…
Scientists Turned Ordinary Shiitake Mushrooms into Living Computers
Just for illustrative purposes. Credit: AI-generated by ZME Science/Midjourney. You can grow a computer on your kitchen counter.…
‘I see them like my own children’: reforesting Ethiopia with 50bn trees, one step at a time | Global development
When Halima Kedir first began planting trees, she was met with scepticism and even mockery. “My neighbours discouraged…
Veterok and Ugolyok: The Soviet Space Dogs Who Defied Limits in Orbit | World News
In 1966, Soviet dogs Veterok and Ugolyok survived 21 days aboard Kosmos 110. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons. Before…
ETH Zurich physicists built an ‘atomic cannon’ to put Einstein’s theory of gravity to the test
Physicists at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute have created a narrow, cold-like beam of muonium, an…
‘Stepped up big time’: Possums running rife in Southland
A record number of possums have been caught in a Southland control area, as concerns mount over a…
Laser design makes major breakthrough in gaseous stimulated Raman scattering
Boosting energy output and repetition rate without compromising beam quality. By leveraging the interaction between high-intensity lasers and…
Climate change is making it easier for invasive species to succeed
In 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico with maximum sustained winds of 250 kilometres an hour.…
If you stood on Mars, you could see Earth pass in front of the Sun. This is what it would look like
Imagine if you could stargaze from Mars. Would you be able to see planet Earth pass in front…
In 2013, St Agnes and Gugh began removing invasive rats brought by 18th-century shipwrecks; 12 years later, Manx shearwater breeding sites rose from 22 to a record 225
In the latest 2025 monitoring data, St Agnes and Gugh recorded 225 apparently occupied breeding sites (AOBs) for…
‘Born-again’ star shows astronomers stellar evolution in real time
How a dead star burst back to life The scientists believe the star was similar to our Sun,…