Wildfire emissions soar, exposing millions to worse air pollution
Wildfires in France and Spain have exposed millions of people to health-damaging air pollution over the last few…
APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
Explanation: The Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars toward the small constellation…
BlueQubit Supports Qedma, IBM and RIKEN Study on Error-Mitigated Quantum Simulation
BlueQubit CompanyUnited States · 11-50 FTEs BlueQubit specializes in quantum computing software, providing a cloud-based platform that enables…
Blast off! The best space and sci-fi Playmobil sets
Playmobil is known for crafting imaginative playsets, taking kids (and adults) on big adventures from the comfort of…
After decades of drought, water is returning to the south of the Sahara Desert as ancient farming techniques and the Great Green Wall breathe new life into the Sahel |
Communities dig water-harvesting pits to restore degraded land and improve soil moisture in the Sahel. For decades, the…
The night sky is changing this August — here’s which planets to watch
Venus dominates the evening sky throughout August, but early risers have a special treat too, as Mercury and…
World-first photonic time crystal opens a new era of light control
An international research team has experimentally produced the first all-optical photonic time crystal (PTC), a material designed to…
Submersible stumbles upon prehistoric animal 365m deep in Pacific darkness
Ocean researchers have shared the extraordinary moment a nautilus swam right up to their underwater vehicle to say hello. Marine…
Huygens took around 700 pictures on its way down through Titan in 2005, and we have half of them, because a single command was missing from Cassini’s instructions — one of the two radio channels was never switched on, and roughly 350 images were lost
Most ways a space mission can fail are dramatic. A rocket explodes. A lander tips over. A heat…
New solar panels in Great Britain at 15-year high as fossil fuel costs soar | Solar power
Great Britain has recorded more new solar power installations in the first half of this year than in…
APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad Discover the cosmos! Each day a different…
UC San Diego Advances Quantum Metamaterials for Ultrafast Optical Computing
National Science Foundation GovernmentUnited States · 1001-5000 FTEs The National Science Foundation, situated in Alexandria, Virginia, is a…