In 2024, a nine-year Kenya study showed how farmers used 365 beehives to protect crops from elephants
In the dry farming country beside Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park, the boundary between crops and wildlife can…
The Richest 10% Cause up to $5.7 Trillion in Environmental Damage Each Year
A new analysis estimates that the world’s highest-consuming 10% generate trillions of dollars in environmental damage each year…
Physicists Create a New Kind of Schrödinger’s Cat State From Exotic Quantum Building Blocks
Reconstructed Wigner function of a superposition of two trisqueezed states. Its sixfold rotational symmetry and regions of Wigner…
Osteoarthritis may be one disease after all, Oxford study finds
Largest-ever analysis of knee osteoarthritis challenges decades of thinking and could accelerate the hunt for effective therapies. If…
Lost Tolkien work discovered in Bodleian archives
The researchers believe the document was probably translated by Tolkien in either 1955 or 1956. The typescript was…
Scientists build intense light beams using ‘Einstein’s flying mirror’
A team of researchers from the University of Oxford and Queen’s University Belfast in the UK has demonstrated…
Quantum Breakthrough Turns Simple Forces Into Powerful New Interactions
Experimental trapped-ion setup used to generate the family of squeezed states. The ion is confined between electrode structures…
Scientists Unlock Elusive Quantum Effect Long Considered Theoretical in Breakthrough Experiment
A once-theoretical quantum interaction has been achieved in a breakthrough laboratory experiment by University of Oxford researchers, opening…
Scientists Discover Path to ‘Extreme Light Intensities’ That Could Enable Ultra-Powerful Laser Weapons and Advanced Tech
An international team of physicists has announced a “significant advance” in laser science that offers engineers a practical…
Mind-blowing power and speed of black hole jets measured for the first time
For the first time, scientists have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole.…
Adult Neurons Retain a Molecular Record of Their Birth
Summary: The adult brain carries a “molecular record” of its own creation. Researchers have mapped the first high-resolution…
Gravity Still Sucks — But Researchers Say Quantum Interference Could Make it Push
Insider Brief Physicists have proposed a tabletop experiment in which quantum interference between two gravitational pulls could produce…