Nasa astronauts Menon, Meir complete space stn upgrade
Washington: Nasa astronauts Anil Menon and Jessica Meir completed a six-hour, 27-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station…
Quantum entanglement generated using sunlight instead of lasers
Researchers at the University of Ottawa in Canada have demonstrated that quantum entanglement between photons does not require…
Video shows hippo charging boat full of tourists in Botswana
Video captured by a tourist on board a boat in northern Botswana showed the heart-pounding moment the vessel…
It was the size of a car and had claws bigger than your arm – and no other creature like it has ever been found
Imagine a scorpion the size of a car, armed with claws bigger than your arm and hunting through…
After 30 years, a Dutch river plain has become 5,500 hectares of new nature, and scientists say the Gelderse Poort links flood safety with biodiversity recovery | World News
A representation of the transformation of the Gelderse Poort floodplain in the Netherlands, showing its evolution from an…
James Webb Space Telescope Opens Up a Cosmic Treasure Chest
The newest NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month delivers a spectacularly colorful look at a…
Nocturnal ‘coffee frog’ discovered in Costa Rica
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Researchers use graphene encapsulation to grow air-stable 2D superconductors for quantum circuits
MIT researchers, together with collaborators from Harvard University, Rice University, Yale University, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Pohang University…
Hydraulic traits govern opposing range shifts of montane trees under warming
Sayre, R. et al. A new high-resolution map of world mountains and an online tool for visualizing and…
Inside the mystery of the James Webb Space Telescope’s little red dots — and how they might be evolving
New evidence has come to light showing that the mysterious ‘little red dots’ discovered in the early universe…
Wild at heart
In a “vital” step for the survival of one of the world’s rarest wading birds, more than 100…
In the driest desert on Earth lies a landscape so hostile it resembles Mars — ancient salt flats, near-lifeless soils, towering volcanoes, and some of the clearest skies on the planet, where scientists search for clues about life beyond Earth.
Salt crusts crack like broken glass underfoot. The air carries almost no smell, because there is barely anything…