Watch a Monarch Caterpillar Become a Butterfly in Seconds
What’s hidden beneath a caterpillar’s shed skin surprises almost everyone who sees it for the first time. See…
China narrows Tianwen-3 Mars sample return landing site selection, seeking traces of life
HELSINKI — China will select a final landing site for its Tianwen-3 Mars sample return before the end…
Planting billions of trees in China to fight climate change backfired, altering the water distribution across the entire country
Billions of trees and grasses planted by China to fight climate change caused water to evaporate faster than…
Peptides may persist in Venusian clouds
In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have long focused on one key ingredient: liquid water.…
Quantum chip opens new way to read complex quantum systems
A quantum computing method called QCS reconstructed spectra from static, open and periodically driven quantum systems using one…
When threatened it slips into a crevice and inflates its body like a rubber raft. Within seconds, it’s twice its original size and wedged in place.
The so-called swell shark cephaloscylum ventriosum, which is found near temperate reefs in the eastern Pacific ocean, truly…
Engineered bacteria speed rock weathering for carbon removal
Weathering rocks naturally pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but the process is too slow to make…
Precipitation and soil phosphorus regulate post-drought resilience in tropical forests
Pan, Y. et al. The enduring world forest carbon sink. Nature 631, 563–569 (2024). Article CAS Google Scholar …
Three Additional Space-Based AMTI Vendors Revealed
Three Additional Space-Based AMTI Vendors Revealed | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Vivienne Machi September 04,…
MIT Qubit Design Could Speed Quantum Operations While Preserving Data
Insider Brief MIT researchers designed a qubit architecture that simulations suggest could speed quantum operations while preserving stored…
Coromandel’s Mahakirau sanctuary: Pigs found eating rare Archey and Hochstetter frogs
Only three endemic frogs live in New Zealand. Two, the Archey and Hochstetter frogs, live in the sanctuary.…
For nearly 50 years, Venus’s clouds have been understood as droplets of concentrated sulfuric acid—but a 2025 reinterpretation of data inadvertently collected by NASA’s Pioneer Venus Large Probe in 1978 suggests their aerosols may instead be about 60 per cent bound water by mass, locked largely inside hydrated iron and magnesium salts.
Venus’s brilliant cloud deck has been described for almost half a century as concentrated sulphuric-acid droplets suspended in…