Astrophotographer captures jaw-dropping view of the Crescent Nebula
The Crescent Nebula shines in the constellation Cygnus. (Image credit: Kevin Boardman) Astrophotographer Kevin Boardman captured this spectacular…
Game On: Quantinuum Demonstrates Exponential Edge Over Classical Strategies
Insider Brief Quantinuum researchers demonstrated an exponentially growing quantum advantage in a game that can be verified efficiently…
Australia brought back brush-tailed bettongs after more than a century of local extinction; the animals are now breeding and reshaping Yorke Peninsula |
A major project on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula has entered a new phase with the launch of a…
Chinese Satellite Breaks Apart in Rare Orbit That Could Hold Debris for Centuries
A reconnaissance satellite suffered an unidentified anomaly and broke apart into pieces. Now, those fragments are trapped in…
Canada’s Oil Pivot to Asia Is Starting to Materialize
Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline hit full capacity for the first time in June, and the company running it…
On this day in space! Sept. 8, 2004: NASA’s Genesis solar wind spacecraft crashes in the Utah desert
On Sept. 8, 2004, NASA’s Genesis spacecraft crash-landed in Utah after its parachutes failed to deploy. Genesis was…
Scientists Reversed a Law of Physics by Scrambling Cause and Effect
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists just discovered that the second law of thermodynamics…
Named for Homer’s heroes, three tiger cubs carry hope for a vanishing species
SPATA, Greece (AP) — The world’s most endangered tigers have started a family in Greece, offering hope for…
Google Mapped a Fruit Fly’s Brain. Now It’s Playing Doom and Super Mario 64
Researchers at Google and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus last week announced a major milestone…
Save our seabirds from the huge windfarm due to be built near Bass Rock | Birds
Lev Parikian paints a vivid picture of the gannets of the Bass Rock and the impact that avian…
NASA Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images
Algorithm NASA first applied to satellite imagery is now used to peer into antiquity High in the central tower…
Some Black Holes Grow Much Faster Than Their Galaxies
Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole. The few that don’t have had theirs ejected during a…