Carbon offsets have failed for 25 years, and most should be phased out
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Academics at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania have conducted the…
Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field
Credit: European Space Agency Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite…
China gears up to build giant South China Sea lab in hunt for ghost particles
Chinese researchers have tested a submersible vehicle designed to help them build one of the world’s largest neutrino…
Can we hear gravitational-wave ‘beats’ in the rhythm of pulsars?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Pulsars suggest that ultra–low-frequency gravitational waves are rippling through the cosmos. The signal seen…
When Black Holes Don’t Play by the Rules
Black holes are the remains of dead supermassive stars. When a star reaches the end of its life,…
Female mountain gorillas stop reproducing long before the end of their lives, study finds
An old (~44 years old), post-reproductive, female mountain gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Credit: MPI-EVA/ Martha…
Could we really turn Mars green?
Credit: NASA Terraforming is the theoretical process of transforming a planet or moon to make it habitable for…
Exploring the hidden rings of the Milky Way
The MeerKAT radio telescopes. Credit: Square Kilometer Array Organization (SKAO) / South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) Radio…
Quantum crystals offer a blueprint for the future of computing and chemistry
Scientists at Auburn University created a new type of material where electrons can move freely across a solid…
‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms, but these phenomena aren’t easy to study
The early structure of the CME in the SC domain. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal (2025). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adf855 Weather…
Anomalous metal sheds light on ‘impossible’ state between superconductivity and insulation
(a) Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a reference device, taken before depositing the global top gate. The square…
New Simulator Pushes Classical Limits on Quantum Algorithm Testing
Insider Brief Researchers from INSAIT, ETH Zurich, and the University of Oxford developed qblaze, a quantum circuit simulator…