U.S. Oil Drilling Continues to Inch Upward
By Julianne Geiger – Oct 09, 2026, 12:31 PM CDT The total number of active drilling rigs for…
NASA Just Made Nearly 1 TB of Artemis II Data Available to the Public
NASA has just released about 800 gigabytes of scientific data generated by the Artemis II mission. The archive…
Atomic-scale visualization of three-dimensional magnetization vectors with competing spin Hamiltonian interactions
Fernández-Pacheco, A. et al. Three-dimensional nanomagnetism. Nat. Commun. 8, 15756 (2017). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Coey,…
Why Horsey Gap is the best spot for seals this Autumn
Between November and February each year, Horsey Gap becomes a haven for wildlife enthusiasts, photographers, and day-trippers, as…
Record-Breaking Clock Just Set a New Standard For Accuracy : ScienceAlert
The time-keeping offered by your watch or phone may be good enough for day-to-day life, but scientists are…
The hidden cost of farmed fish: Pollution, forced labor and the depletion of wild fish
As of 2022, more than half of the seafood eaten worldwide was farm-raised rather than caught at sea,…
Hubble Space Telescope may have found a planet born after its star died
Astronomers revisiting decades-old observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found a new clue in a long-running cold…
Scientists demonstrate sustained operation of the world’s first self-regulating nuclear clock
A thorium-229 nuclear clock in Vienna ran for more than 24 hours without intervention, automatically correcting its laser…
Jonathan the tortoise: Oldest land animal may hold longevity clues
A new genetic analysis has revealed potential clues to the longevity secrets of a giant tortoise named Jonathan,…
Drought declared in Yorkshire as reservoirs and rivers run low after months of dry weather
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Scientists engineer microbe to help humanity settle Mars
A new genetically engineered microbe may one day help humanity settle Mars, a nonprofit biotechnology research startup suggests.…
Quantum X Labs Seeks Patent for Structured-Beam Atom Cooling System
Insider Brief Quantum X Labs has filed a USPTO patent application for a structured-beam Zeeman slower and atomic…