‘We are not giving up yet’: Private mission to rescue NASA’s Swift telescope is spinning out of control, and engineers are racing to fix it
A private mission to rescue an ailing NASA space telescope may now need a rescue of its own.…
Extensible universal photonic quantum computing with nonlinearity
Rad, H. A. et al. Scaling and networking a modular photonic quantum computer. Nature 638, 912–919 (2025). Article …
In the 1920s, Washington introduced mountain goats for hunting; the herd grew and damaged rare alpine plants and soils | World News
Mountain goats introduced for hunting in Olympic Mountains now stress the ecosystem. These animals spread across the mountains,…
Boeing Claims Its Beleaguered Starliner Spacecraft Is Pretty Much Good to Go
It’s been two years since Starliner’s first crewed test flight fell apart in shambles, leaving a crew of…
China’s Solar Capacity Set to Overtake Coal This Quarter
China will have more installed solar power capacity than coal-fired generation capacity as early as this quarter, Chinese…
NASA is sending 2 probes to the moon to test complex ‘three-body orbits’
NASA is planning to send two maneuverable probes to lunar orbit in order to learn how spacecraft are…
Quantum Computers Could Freeze Like Ordinary PCs
A quantum computer’s cooling system keeps its quantum chips at temperatures close to absolute zero. Only under these…
VIDEO: Bear climbs utility pole outside police services building
Sault Ste. Marie Police are reminding residents to be bear wise after having a close encounter earlier this…
Dolphins May Help Us Understand Menopause
We can learn a surprising amount from studying other species, including dolphins. Scientists have been looking at bottlenose…
What happens to a moon when its planet is stolen?
We have known for a while that the Milky Way is full of homeless worlds. Rogue planets, free…
Quiz of the week: what type of radiation travels on a photonic highway? – Physics World
Quiz of the week: what type of radiation travels on a photonic highway? – Physics World Skip to…
North America once had 400 million beavers. Nearly wiped out by the 1900s, they are now restoring rivers, wetlands and wildlife one dam at a time | World News
For much of the last century, the beaver was largely missing from many North American rivers. Intense trapping…