Meteorite dust holds records of magnetism that may have helped form the sun | MIT News
Magnetic fields are generated by matter that is electrically charged and moving around. In the very early solar…
NIST Researchers Supersize Quantum Technology to Help Detect Faint Photons
In this illustration, photons hit a strip of superconducting wire, disrupting the electric current and registering an electric…
Japanese Carrion crows have found a clever way to crack hard walnuts, turning passing cars into their own nutcrackers |
Carrion crows were observed using roads as a tool for opening walnuts. Instead of cracking every shell themselves,…
Water covers about 71 per cent of Earth’s surface, yet the entire hydrosphere accounts for only about 0.02 per cent of Earth’s mass — almost all of the planet’s mass is rock and metal beneath it
Ask most people what Earth is made of and, somewhere in the back of the mind, the answer…
Renewable Energy Industry Is Starting to Spend Big on Elections
The fossil fuel industry has long been a campaign finance powerhouse, using its clout to help put sympathetic…
Goodbye, Falcon 9: SpaceX planning to retire workhorse launcher when Starship is up and running
The rumors are true. SpaceX plans to retire its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket once the company’s giant next-generation…
EuroHPC Opens €119M in Funding Calls for Quantum Technologies
Insider Brief The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has launched six calls totaling €119 million to advance quantum computing, quantum…
Humpback whales are interrupting orca hunts to rescue completely different species, swimming underneath a doomed seal and lifting it out of the water on their chest, or forming a wall between the killers and a grey whale calf, and scientists still can’t fully explain why they bother to save animals they have nothing to gain from
It’s not a story anyone would have believed if it weren’t so thoroughly documented. A pod of killer…
Deimos may owe both its enormous south-polar depression and strangely smooth surface to a single 300-metre asteroid impact — a blow whose debris spread around the entire moon and would mean Mars’s smaller satellite is essentially a porous rubble pile
Deimos has the surface of a world that seems to have been gently dusted over and the silhouette…
Bougainville urged to prepare for El Niño-linked drought
The Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) is urging people to prepare for a prolonged drought linked to El Niño.…
Cathie Wood’s ARK Goes On $27 Million SpaceX Shopping Spree
Cathie Wood continued betting big on SpaceX on Friday. Her ARK Invest firm purchased over 200,000 shares of…
A single neutrino caught beneath the Antarctic ice sent astronomers searching across 11 billion light-years — and led them to a young galaxy nicknamed the Shadow Blaster, its light bent and magnified by another galaxy standing between it and Earth
At 18:17 UTC on 22 September 2021, a pattern of light appeared inside a cubic kilometre of instrumented…