Ambitious fix extends Voyager 2’s mission and could help its twin
An ambitious effort to boost an aging probe on its journey through the uncharted territory of interstellar space…
Mercury Wave Made With 20 Vials Suspended From Springs
Photographer and former radio astronomer Marcel Clemens suspended 20 tiny vials containing slightly different masses of mercury from…
Pluto’s Famous Glacial Heart Has Been Secretly Leaking Liquid Nitrogen
Odd surface patterns on Pluto hinted to astronomers that, sometime in the past—quite possibly not that long ago—liquid…
DC drought designation lifted after recent soaking rains
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows encouraging progress: DC and much of the Interstate 95 corridor are no…
‘1 more step’: NASA astronauts conduct 6.5-hour spacewalk to prep ISS for solar array upgrade
Two NASA astronauts installed the seventh and final set of mounting hardware for new sets of solar arrays…
Simons Foundation Funds 12 Targeted Math and Physics Research Groups
As part of its mission to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences, the…
IU physicists help upgrade world’s largest particle accelerator
Indiana University physicists are working on the upgrade of the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the…
A global atlas of soil microbial genetic resources exposes protection shortfalls
State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China…
SpaceX’s 10 GW Nvidia Vera Rubin Bet: The Compute Landlord Thesis Scales to $100 Billion
SpaceX has set a new ceiling for AI infrastructure. During its inaugural earnings call as a public company…
Physicists harness sunlight for quantum entanglement
At the foundation of photonic quantum computing are pairs of light particles. Linked together through a process called…
The Wildlife You’re Most Likely To Die From In A National Park
Given their millions of visits each year, fatal wildlife encounters are statistically rare in America’s national parks. But…
Fluffy meshes clean up microplastics big and small
Pieces of plastic ranging from nanometers to millimeters in size are amassing in oceans and fresh water. Removing…