From Beaches to Bits to Qubits
Insider Brief Silicon’s path from beach sand to quantum processor traces an unbroken arc from 1950s transistor doping…
Meet Mohammed Almuntasir: The Libyan wildlife photographer whose 18-second YouTube video proved a “ghost cat” still lives in Libya | World News
In 2017, Mohammed Almuntasir uploaded an 18-second YouTube video that appeared to show nothing more than a small…
Hybrid material based on nanosheets can produce hydrogen peroxide
Researchers in the United States have developed a new material to produce hydrogen peroxide more efficiently. Developed by…
‘Petty’ council dispute breaks out over volunteer litter pick
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The JWST Little Red Dots Could Be ‘Black Hole Stars’
The early Universe’s Little Red Dots (LRD) could be the JWST’s strangest discovery. LRDs are small, red, astronomical…
‘Like a sci-fi movie’: giant spider web covers Israeli nature reserve
A giant blanket of spider webs is covering the vegetation after millions of long-jawed orb-weaver spiders of the…
Mimas looks like one of Saturn’s deadest moons: a frozen, heavily cratered ball with no obvious activity. Then scientists discovered a global ocean beneath it in 2024 — an ocean less than 25 million years old, younger than the Himalayas, hiding beneath a surface that gives almost nothing away.
Mimas does almost everything an ocean world is not supposed to do. Its surface is old, rigid-looking and…
Fire at Peterlee fly-tipped waste fire
Fire crews have tackled a blaze at a former factory site where about 400 tonnes of rubbish was…
US Space Force Payload Lifts Off on Japanese Satellite
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First sighting of critically endangered bee in 26 years
A critically endangered species of bee has been spotted in Ireland for the first time in 26 years.…
New Drug Turns Cancer’s Favorite Fuel Into a Deadly Weakness
Microscope image of hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of cancer to arise in the liver. Credit: University…
China’s leftover renewable energy could power UK for more than a year
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