Ultrafast triggering of strong coupling in a semiconductor terahertz Fabry-Pérot cavity
THz characterization of a photo-excited thin Si wafer When a semiconductor is excited above band-gap, its optical properties…
The ‘world’s first rewilded sharks’ are being raised by shark nannies
EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing…
New sweating discovery reveals hidden limits of body cooling
The purpose of perspiration was a mystery in 1775, when English physician Charles Brian Blagden and a few…
What if our cities were designed for wildlife as well as people?
On a warm evening in May, swifts scream over rooftops, chasing insects above the traffic. A fox slips…
Scientists create ‘laundry gun’ for astronauts to clean their clothes by shooting out plasma
If you have ever shared a room with multiple people for days on end, you may know how…
A room-temperature cavity–magnonic source of correlated microwave magnon polariton pairs
Mandel, L. & Wolf, E. Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995). Scully, M. O. &…
In 1964, a 27-year-old woman bought an abandoned 18 acre island off Maine and built a small house to live there alone; 22 years later the island was donated to become a wildlife sanctuary
Before it was a wildlife sanctuary, it was a woman’s abode. Witch Island is an approximately 18-acre land…
NASA Tests Featherweight Radar Antenna For SkyFall Mars Helicopters
After the little Mars helicopter Ingenuity blew everyone away with its performance, it was clear that a future…
Bringing justice to informal adaptation to heat stress
McFarlane, C. Plan. Theory Pract. 13, 89–108 (2012). Article Google Scholar Alfaro d’Alençon, P. et al. Habitat Int.…
Nuclear-powered heater keeps spacecraft alive through lunar night
Firefly Aerospace will send a nuclear-powered heating technology to the Moon in 2028, testing whether spacecraft can survive…
MIT physicists discover electrons rebuilding like ice inside a quantum material
A glass of ice water offers a familiar example of two phases existing at the same time. The…
Photographer Captures Dramatic Moment Goslings Take 25 Foot Leap Of Faith From Nest
Every spring at the Julia Butler Hansen Refuge for the Columbian White-Tailed Deer, newborn goslings follow their parents’…