SpaceX Needed Tourist Videos to Track Rocket Debris
When SpaceX’s Starship blew apart over the Caribbean last year, some of the most useful tracking tools…
NSF grants $4.5M for continued research on powerful lasers
Scientists from six universities across the country, including the University of Nevada, Reno, are taking part in a…
‘We cannot accept foxes as part of our landscape’: the plan to save Australia’s threatened wildlife | Invasive species
They dart across playgrounds on dainty paws, sneak into back yard coops to eat suburban chickens and kill…
Weekend reads: OpenAI’s preprint dump; Taylor & Francis to leave Informa; arXiv’s preprint cap – Retraction Watch
If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might…
Hurricane Isaias leaves Santa Rosa County communities facing floods, debris and damage
SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. — Some Santa Rosa County communities faced flooding and debris from Hurricane Isaias, while…
SpaceX snaps up the 800 MHz spectrum T-Mobile dumped for $2.9 billion — and T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T stocks are sliding
When T-Mobile and Sprint completed their merger in 2020, one of the conditions the company agreed to was…
Five-dimensional black holes offer a possible explanation for dark matter and neutrinos
A theoretical study predicts five-dimensional primordial black holes within a model containing a hidden extra spatial dimension.Some modeled…
Oregon Zoo alum Nora the polar bear shows promising signs of pregnancy
WISCONSIN (KATU) — Zookeepers at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Wisconsin cannot confirm whether Nora the polar bear…
Betelgeuse has a companion star – so why hasn’t Hubble been able to see it? Astronomers may finally have worked out where it’s been hiding
Since the ‘great dimming’ that took place in 2019, Betelgeuse – Orion’s ‘shoulder’ and one of the best-known…
Katahdin is greening faster than any other New England summit
High above the tree line on Katahdin, where biting winds and sub-zero winters hold the rocky landscape in…
Space communications startup AnySignal expands into undersea market
WASHINGTON — An undersea tracking company and a space communications startup are teaming up to build a new…
Excitonic order in quantum materials
Mott, N. F. The transition to the metallic state. Philos. Mag.-J. Theor. Exp. Appl. Phys. 6, 287–309 https://doi.org/10.1080/14786436108243318…