van der Waals Josephson junctions for quantum science and technology
Devoret, M. H. & Schoelkopf, R. J. Superconducting circuits for quantum information: an outlook. Science 339, 1169–1174 (2013).…
Shrews may grow bigger snouts in winter to cope with cold air, scientists say | Wildlife
Humans turn to heated blankets and fluffy socks to cope with winter, but long-clawed shrews have a very…
Neanderthals may have trekked through the Saudi Arabian desert 55,000 years ago, farther south than experts thought possible
Neanderthals may have trekked deep into the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula around 55,000 years ago, a new…
Tighter Coffee Supplies Push Prices Sharply Higher
Dark roasted coffee beans with scoop by Rattanapol via Shutterstock September arabica coffee (KCU26) closed up +18.30 (+5.30%)…
New photos reveal impact site of SpaceX rocket moon collision
New images from a NASA satellite orbiting the moon reveal a fresh, 60-foot-wide crater formed by a wayward…
Quantum Computer Solves a Problem in 15 Minutes That Classical Methods Can’t Practically Compute
Scientists used a new error correction method to encode 70 logical qubits and solve a problem that is…
Alaska’s live bearcam has become a summer hit: 7.3 million views in six weeks as brown bears gather at Brooks Falls to catch salmon
The cameras show brown bears waiting around Brooks Falls as sockeye salmon travel upstream. (Getty images) A livestream…
It’s official – Earth’s spin is slowing down. Here’s what it means for the future of our planet
If modern life makes you feel as though the days are dragging on, science can offer you a…
Apparent human remains found in Lake Mead as water levels reach record low
Apparent human skeletal remains, including a jaw with the teeth still attached, were found at Lake Mead on…
CERN Experiment Finds Gluons Behaving Strangely Deep Inside Atomic Nuclei
The ALICE experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Credit: CERN ALICE measurements suggest that gluons inside nuclei begin…
Sea otters have the densest fur of any mammal on Earth, up to one million hairs per square inch, because unlike whales and seals they carry no insulating blubber and would freeze to death in the North Pacific without a coat that traps a layer of air against their skin
A sea otter floating on its back off the California coast is wearing the densest fur of any…
Vampire bats will regurgitate blood to save a starving roost-mate, even one they are not related to — then remember who helped them before, in a system of animal reciprocity that looks less like instinct than a tiny favour economy
Somewhere in a hollow tree in Panama, a bat that came home hungry is being fed by a…