25 years after 9/11, what disasters reveal about Americans’ ability to reconnect
Many Americans will pause on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to remember the nearly 3,000 people…
SpaceX Rises 7% as Starship Test 14 Approaches, Tesla Jumps 7%, Rocket Lab Ticks Up
Starship test 14 is close enough to taste, and investors are already crowding into two specific Musk-linked names…
‘There is no conflict between quantum physics and gravity’: Physicists prove Einstein’s equivalence principle holds true at quantum scales
For the first time, physicists have measured the tiny quantum shift an object acquires by falling through Earth’s…
Angelina Jolie-backed wildlife sanctuary is fighting to save 217 animals in Namibia; lions, leopards and African wild dogs are at the centre | World News
PC: The Namibian Investigative Unit At a wildlife sanctuary east of Namibia’s capital, the fate of more than…
Hubble spots mysterious 10-sided ‘decagon’ swirling around Saturn’s south pole — and it wasn’t there a decade ago
New Hubble observations have revealed a dramatic, 10-sided jet surrounding Saturn’s south pole, and it appears to be…
Hawaii put 195,000 plastic bottles’ worth of recycled plastic into Fort Weaver Road in 2022, but the experiment came with a hidden environmental question | World News
A road in western Oahu looks much like any other stretch of asphalt. Cars pass over it, tyres…
New Study Expands Search for “Dark Photons,” a Leading Dark Matter Candidate
More than fifty years after it was proposed, the search for Dark Matter continues, whether through cosmic surveys…
In 1945, an Arizona professor started hunting glowing scorpions at night; decades later his laboratory had become a major centre for venom research |
Representative Image of fluorescent scorpions glowing across a desert landscape after dark (AI-generated image) In 1945, an Arizona…
Scientists call them “belatedly habitable planets”: worlds that enter their star’s habitable zone only after formation. Around M dwarfs, some may first endure hundreds of millions of years of intense radiation that splits atmospheric water and drives its hydrogen into space, leaving them dry before temperate conditions finally arrive.
A planet can occupy the habitable zone and still have arrived too late. That is the point behind…
Strong El Niño whips up rare trio of hurricanes in the Pacific
The NHC added: “Swells from Lowell are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip-current conditions in portions of…
Penultimate Lunar Occultations Inbound for Jupiter, Venus and More in September
The Moon has a full dance card along the ecliptic this month. The Moon is busy in September.…
46 years ago, Carl Sagan beautifully explained the fourth dimension using a sliced apple
How do you explain the concept of a fourth dimension to humans who are only able to see…