After ‘doom and gloom’ decade, Fort McMurray readies for a boom
The Alberta community synonymous with meteoric oil booms and crippling busts is now staring down another potential wave…
A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit
An American spy satellite unexpectedly shattered into pieces, creating a cloud of debris in low-Earth orbit. The U.S.…
Charles Black Leads C2QA Research on Scalable Quantum Computing
Insider Brief Charles Black, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), is applying decades…
Indian Ancestry: What DNA Reveals About 65,000 Years
1. You come from a village in Tamil Nadu. What sparked your interest in biology and genetics first?…
Backpack edges past Dancing Queen to win the Fat Bear Week title | Alaska
A chunky ursine called Backpack has out gobbled a challenge from an outsized female nicknamed the Dancing Queen…
New clues emerge for moon’s ancient magnetic field
An unusual rock buried on the far side of the moon is providing fresh clues for a longstanding…
Cities across the world are sinking because of groundwater depletion. But the process can be reversed
Many cities around the world are sinking because too much water is extracted from the groundwater reservoirs beneath…
The moon cozies up to the ‘Seven Sisters’ Pleiades on Sept. 30
As September draws to a close on Sept. 30, an 80% illuminated waning gibbous moon pays a visit…
Scientists find fundamental limits on quantum battery reliability
A collaboration of researchers from various parts of the world has identified the fundamental limits on the reliability…
Gentle giant Backpack declared winner of Alaska’s Fat Bear Week
After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of…
Less protein for maggots means longer lives for fruit flies
Missing links What’s most firmly established today is the final step. “If you have less translation and less…
‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles | Scotland
Inside a bothy overlooking the Summer Isles, in the north-west of Scotland, the lilting tones of a traditional…