Lessons for the future of NASA Mars exploration from a 1970s mission
July 20 marked the 50th anniversary of one of the biggest robotic spaceflight achievements in NASA’s history: the…
Photons for Reach, Atoms for Entanglement: A Compound Photon-Atom Blueprint for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
By combining the long-range connectivity of photonic qubits with near-deterministic entanglement mediated by cavity-coupled atoms, Quantum Source’s new…
Legal warning after increase in seahorse disturbance
Warmer weather is leading to an increase in “vulnerable and fragile” seahorses being disturbed, conservationists have said. Seahorses…
Lancaster Canal boaters angry at water shortage after drought
Sadler, who lives aboard his boat on the canal, said on the days he visited the feeder stream…
Rocket Lab launches 8th iQPS satellite
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab launched a Japanese radar-imaging satellite Aug. 6, more than a month after the previous…
A German fusion machine runs on 50 superconducting coils chilled to 270 degrees below zero, each one a shape no person could have drawn and only a supercomputer could work out, and it held a plasma for 43 seconds before its own institute walked the record back
KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X stellarator made global headlines for beating tokamaks at their own game — then its…
What happens to elephants that stray from Kruger Park? South African policy needs a rewrite
When an elephant wandered out of South Africa’s Kruger National Park into the nearby village of Matsulu on…
Astronaut Snaps Photo of Super Typhoon on His iPhone
Astronaut Anil Menon has only been in space for less than one month, but he has already captured…
We need a wartime mindset to fight the threat of wildfires | Seth Klein
As France and Spain battle historic wildfires, comparisons to the second world war abound. “One of the continent’s…
Croatian amateur astronomers discover possible new planetary nebula in the night sky
by croatiaweek August 6, 2026 in News (Illustration) ZAGREB, 6 August 2026 (Hina) – A group of Croatian…
Guest Post: From the Cosmos to Quantum Computers
Guest Post by Michael Osei, M.Sc. in Physics. Press release – Quantum technology can sound like science fiction:…
Are you allowed to own a pet skunk in the UK?
Evie Batton, senior scientific officer at the RSPCA, said it is not illegal to keep a skunk as…