Milky Way at the dining table: Bath art show celebrates 18th-century brother and sister astronomers | Astronomy
From the garden of their Georgian townhouse in Bath in the late 18th century, a brother and sister…
Nuclear reactor simulations advance with new quantum transport method
Physicists modeling nuclear systems have long faced a basic computing problem: particles do not move through neat, uniform…
When threatened it slips into a crevice and inflates its body like a rubber raft. Within seconds, it’s twice its original size and wedged in place.
The so-called swell shark cephaloscylum ventriosum, which is found near temperate reefs in the eastern Pacific ocean, truly…
When Georgia Tech scientists tipped out a tumbler of Titan-like organic grains, 2 to 5 percent refused to fall, held to the walls by static electricity. In comparable experiments with terrestrial sand and volcanic ash, nothing stuck.
When Georgia Tech researchers finished tumbling grains meant to approximate some of Titan’s organic material, they tipped the…
A panel that spent 25 years in a field comes apart on a belt in Georgia, and the recycled glass off its front went into test modules that matched ones built from virgin sand
The panel comes up the belt face up, cells still catching the light. Somebody bolted it down a…
Quiz of the week: how much data will NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope produce each day? – Physics World
Quiz of the week: how much data will NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope produce each day? – Physics…
Pulsar Timing Arrays Could Look for Evidence of Dark Matter Stars
Pulsars are incredibly precise cosmic clocks. So precise that we can use them to measure subtle changes in…
Lone Malaysian elephant, who went viral for walking 100 km with an injured leg amid traffic to return to his herd, finds new home
Lone Malaysian elephant Sulong Challi who walked 100 km probably in search of his herd has been relocated…
For 57 years, the Arecibo Observatory’s 1,000-foot dish sat sunk into a Puerto Rican valley listening to the sky, and in December 2020, after cables holding its 900-ton instrument platform snapped one by one, the entire structure gave way and crashed straight through the reflector below.
Ángel Vázquez, the observatory’s director of telescope operations, was standing outside the control room on the morning of…
Cape Town water crisis fears as City warns of restrictions within weeks
Theewaterskloof Dam in the Western Cape during the 2018 drought. Cape Town could be placed under water restrictions…
How did the infant sun form? Scientists get surprising new insights from 4.6-billion-year-old space dust
New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a “fossil record” dating back to the formation of the…
Renowned Expert Elevates UConn Quantum Research
UConn has found its ideal expert to advance its rise as a leader in interdisciplinary quantum research. Internationally…