7.2, 7.5 powerful back-to-back earthquakes rock Venezuela, high casualties likely; tsunami alert issued
Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela within minutes of each other on Wednesday evening, causing buildings to collapse in…
GW250114 reveals signatures of post-merger black-hole horizon
Oshita, N., Ma, S., Chen, Y. & Yang, H. Probing direct waves in black hole ringdowns. Preprint at…
IQM achieves milestone in quantum error correction, enabling fault-tolerant computing in the near-term
ESPOO, Finland & MUNICH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IQM Quantum Computers, the global leader in superconducting quantum computers, today announced a significant…
Earth’s Worst Extinctions May Have Had a Hidden Cosmic Trigger, Scientist Says : ScienceAlert
Life on Earth underwent a long evolutionary journey that eventually gave rise to us, the purportedly intelligent species…
Wild New Study Claims We Can Nudge Hurricanes Away From Land
An estimated 60 million people across 24 states felt the effects of Hurricane Sandy as it moved up…
13 years and $500 million for a stage adapter? Report justifies NASA cancellations.
In a written response to the report, the chief of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Directorate, Lori Glaze, said the…
A ‘direct wave’ from colliding black holes reveals signature of a whirlpool in spacetime
Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, but they aren’t always silent. When…
Nikola Tesla wrote in 1900 that an automaton might one day appear to think for itself — the surprise is not that he predicted modern AI perfectly, but that he understood how quickly a machine that responds, adapts, and acts could begin to disturb the boundary between mechanism and mind
In June 1900, Nikola Tesla published an essay in The Century Magazine titled “The Problem of Increasing Human…
How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?
Beginning next week, Australians across a huge swath of the continent will begin getting three free hours of…
We finally have an opening date for the California Science Center’s space shuttle–centric expansion
After breaking ground on the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center four years ago, the California Science Center…
Harvesting UV Light from sunlight just got ‘solid’
image: A new solid-state material from Kyushu University turns visible light into high-energy UV at sunlight intensity. By…
Neil the Seal moved off road by Tasmanian wildlife workers, video sparks debate over treatment
Footage of Tasmanian icon Neil the Seal being herded off a road by wildlife workers has sparked fierce…