Types of Quantum Computers: 6 Major Quantum Computing Approaches
Insider Brief Quantum computing hardware approaches vary widely, with superconducting, trapped-ion, photonic, neutral-atom, topological and annealing systems making…
In 2016, a New Zealand ranger became the only human living on a predator-free island; he stayed to guard the last refuge of the world’s heaviest parrot | World News
Kakapo Pounamu, showing how the bird’s plumage acts as camouflage in vegetation. Credits – Wikimedia Commons Off the…
Microbes are living at pH 12 — roughly the alkalinity of bleach — inside mud volcanoes on the Mariana forearc, and there are so few of them that DNA testing fails to find them at all; researchers had to identify them by the fats they left behind
Deep in the Mariana forearc, the stretch of seafloor west of the Mariana Trench, mud volcanoes vent fluid…
Brazil’s polluted Rio mangroves were disappearing under waste; then local fishers restored 18.2 hectares and more than 60 animal species returned | World News
Local fishers collect waste from Guanabara Bay as part of a mangrove restoration and cleanup effort in Rio…
In pictures – the Blood Moon lunar eclipse wows stargazers across America and Europe
The 28 August 2026 partial lunar eclipse was visible over North and South America, the UK and Europe…
Interfacial Phenomena in Droplets: Instabilities, Impact, Wetting and Drying
Droplets are where a great deal of interesting fluid mechanics happens, and the interface is where it is…
In 1999, a caretaker moved to an Australian island holding one of the world’s largest little penguin colonies; he stayed 25 years protecting its wildlife and lighthouse | World News
Gabo Island, Victoria, Australia. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons In 1999, Leo op den Brouw began what became a…
Astronomers identified a dwarf-planet candidate beyond Neptune in 2025 whose orbit lasts nearly 24,000 years and carries it beyond the survey’s detection range for 99.5% of the journey — so finding even one suggests roughly 200 similar worlds may be circling unseen.
One faint point of light cannot be turned into 200 discovered worlds. It can, however, expose how incomplete…
Air pollution affects us all, but there is a way we can breathe easier | Environment
Air pollution affects nearly every person on this planet. Yet global efforts to combat the scourge – which…
In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell found pulsars but watched her supervisor receive the Nobel: The discovery that still raises questions about scientific credit |
In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell found pulsars but watched her supervisor receive the Nobel. Back in 1967, a…
Higher-Energy X-Rays Could Enable a New Form of Quantum Sensing
Insider Brief Researchers used entangled electrons in helium atoms to produce higher-energy X-rays beyond the limit predicted by…
Once a hunter, now a protector: The dying animal that changed Anil Mistry’s life and led him to save 70 tigers
For years, the forest had been a source of survival for Anil Mistry. He had grown up in…