In the desert, they’re building an “artificial sun” to power cities
Deep in the United Arab Emirates, construction is underway on Khazna Solar PV, soon to become the world’s…
James Webb Space Telescope discovers what remains after two stars collide and explode as a red nova
Astronomers have discovered what kind of stellar body is left after two stars collide and merge to generate…
Ultrafast transition from coherent to incoherent polariton nonlinearities in a hybrid 1L-WS2/plasmon structure
Törmä, P. & Barnes, W. L. Strong coupling between surface plasmon polaritons and emitters: a review. Rep. Prog.…
Strategic sex: Alaska’s beluga whales swap mates for long-term survival
video: Beluga whales in the High Arctic during summer. A group of beluga whale bulls in a bay,…
Habitable worlds may be far more common than thought, Israeli study says
Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always show…
‘Wrong side of history’: Report ties top polluters to countries blocking fossil fuel phaseout
An increasingly concentrated group of fossil fuel giants is dominating global emissions and “actively sabotaging” climate action to…
4 Exciting Space Missions Launch This Year Including NASA’s Return to Moon, Japan’s Jump to Mars
From a return of humans to Lunar orbit, to Japan’s first crack at Mars, the trend of humans…
Demonstration of low-overhead quantum error correction codes
Nielsen, M. A., Chuang, I. L. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010). Google Scholar Shor,…
Code Links Microscopic Insights to Macro World
In inertial confinement fusion, a capsule of fuel begins at temperatures near zero and pressures close to vacuum.…
How to spot a landslide before it happens – disaster expert
A general view shows a landslide while a search is underway by local emergency services for missing people…
Blue Origin launches 6 space tourists to the final frontier after last-minute crew swap (video)
Blue Origin just sent its latest batch of space tourists to the final frontier. The company, which was…
Strain-induced two-dimensional topological crystalline insulator in bilayer SnTe
Experimental realization of strained 3 atomic layers We prepared ultrathin SnTe films on a 2H-NbSe2 substrate using the…