NASA images reveal crater left by SpaceX rocket’s Moon crash
The photographs were captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) between August 11 and 12, and show the…
CosmoCube could use the Moon as a natural radio shield to study the Universe’s hidden era before the first stars and galaxies appeared |
Image: CosmoCube’s Website Long before stars illuminated the cosmos, the Universe passed through a mysterious period known as…
Cold-atom comagnetometry via optical control of spin states
Pezzè, L., Smerzi, A., Oberthaler, M. K., Schmied, R. & Treutlein, P. Quantum metrology with nonclassical states of…
Alaska’s live bearcam has become a summer hit: 7.3 million views in six weeks as brown bears gather at Brooks Falls to catch salmon
The cameras show brown bears waiting around Brooks Falls as sockeye salmon travel upstream. (Getty images) A livestream…
Quantum engines enter the real world: Tiny superconducting device could build computers of the future
Scientists at Finland’s Aalto University have successfully built and operated the world’s first cyclic superconducting quantum heat engine,…
Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century
With this machinery, Wilson solved the mystery of why many magnets magnetize at the same rate. The zooming-out…
Sea otters have the densest fur of any mammal on Earth, up to one million hairs per square inch, because unlike whales and seals they carry no insulating blubber and would freeze to death in the North Pacific without a coat that traps a layer of air against their skin
A sea otter floating on its back off the California coast is wearing the densest fur of any…
NASA astronaut and 1st female French spacewalker remove failed antenna, but run out of time for replacement
Two astronauts — including the first French woman in history to perform a spacewalk — worked outside of…
Japan is sending a spacecraft to land on Phobos, where gravity is about 1,700 times weaker than Earth’s. MMX will collect more than 10 grams of material and return it to Australia in 2031 — the first sample ever deliberately brought back to Earth from the Martian system.
Japan’s Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft is not going to Phobos merely to photograph it. The mission is designed…
Krypton-sputtered tantalum films for scalable high-performance quantum devices
Awschalom, D. D., Bernien, H., Hanson, R., Oliver, W. D. & Vučković, J. Challenges and opportunities for quantum…
In the 1990s, a predatory flatworm was released in Samoa to control giant African snails; it later became linked to the decline and extinction of native island snails
In the 1990s, a predatory flatworm was released in Samoa to control giant African snails An aggressive predatory…
Nate Florence Proves Finding Waves Is Always About the Search
Sometimes the search pays off, sometimes it doesn’t. Photo: Nathan Florence // YouTube The latest video from Nathan…