NASA Research Shows How Sun’s Ancient History Shaped Earth
At the center of our solar system, the Sun influences every planet that orbits it. In two recent NASA-funded studies, scientists uncovered how ancient…
EuroHPC Opens €119M in Funding Calls for Quantum Technologies
Insider Brief The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has launched six calls totaling €119 million to advance quantum computing, quantum…
Harry Green obituary | Wildlife
The conservationist Harry Green was a naturalist of the amateur school, with an encyclopedic knowledge of British wildlife…
Woman fined after waste dumped in woodland near Driffield
Michelle Simmons, from Hull, was prosecuted after a large amount of waste was found dumped at Tibthorpe High…
What Is the ‘Messy Middle’ Between Eclipses? How It’ll Impact You
In Lucky Stars, TODAY.com’s astrologer Lisa Stardust highlights the zodiac signs most impacted by certain astrological events or…
A single neutrino caught beneath the Antarctic ice sent astronomers searching across 11 billion light-years — and led them to a young galaxy nicknamed the Shadow Blaster, its light bent and magnified by another galaxy standing between it and Earth
At 18:17 UTC on 22 September 2021, a pattern of light appeared inside a cubic kilometre of instrumented…
Conservationists carry the eggs of the world’s rarest duck for 44km on foot. Here’s why
After heavy rainfall threatened nests of the Madagascar pochard, the world’s rarest duck, conservationists collected its eggs from…
World’s oceans hit hottest temperature on record in August | Oceans
The world’s oceans were hotter than ever previously recorded on Saturday, according to the latest data. The average…
Enjoy the partial lunar eclipse with 25% off this beginner-friendly Celestron telescope
A partial lunar eclipse takes place this Aug. 27-28 and this beginner-friendly Celestron PowerSeeker 80EQ telescope, nearly $50…
Real-space imaging of moiré-confined excitons in twisted bilayer MoS2
Cao, Y. et al. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 43–50 (2018). Article ADS Google Scholar …
Japanese Carrion crows have found a clever way to crack hard walnuts, turning passing cars into their own nutcrackers |
Carrion crows were observed using roads as a tool for opening walnuts. Instead of cracking every shell themselves,…
Hackaday Links: August 23, 2026
We’ll start this week off with some disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, news — the ambitious commercial mission…