Tube Launch Boosts Rocket’s Performance
If you want improve a model rocket’s performance, all the common options come with serious trade-offs: you could…
MIT Qubit Design Could Speed Quantum Operations While Preserving Data
Insider Brief MIT researchers designed a qubit architecture that simulations suggest could speed quantum operations while preserving stored…
NOAA offers up to $20K for information on Molokai monk seal death
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is offering up to $20,000 to anyone with…
Something weird’s going on at Saturn. Hubble has spotted a 10-sided geometric formation in the planet’s clouds
“The most intriguing part to me is that this seems to have just formed recently,” says Amy Simon at…
In 1997, Ted Turner opened his New Mexico ranch to endangered Mexican wolves; the facility became a major breeding centre for animals released into the wild | World News
Image(s): Left/ Robert Reck/Right/US Fish and Wildlife Service In 1997, Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch in south-central New Mexico…
Lafayette loop being resurrected to handle SpaceX traffic | News
Plans for a loop around Lafayette are being resurrected in part to handle traffic to the planned SpaceX…
A College Student Accidentally Broke the Laws of Thermodynamics
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NOAA offers $20,000 for tips on monk seal’s death on Molokai
COURTESY DOCARE Hawaiian monk seal RU68, a one-year-old female, was found deceased on a Molokai beach. Federal wildlife…
A Billion Tons of Ice Are Hiding Under Utah, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
When we picture glaciers, it’s easy to imagine vast expanses of white ice gleaming under the sky. But…
In 2020, Ohio removed a dam from the once-polluted Cuyahoga River; it reopened 39 km of habitat, and scientists later detected 15 additional fish taxa
An 18-metre concrete dam on Ohio’s Cuyahoga River once stopped migrating fish from reaching important spawning areas for…
For 57 years, the Arecibo Observatory’s 1,000-foot dish sat sunk into a Puerto Rican valley listening to the sky, and in December 2020, after cables holding its 900-ton instrument platform snapped one by one, the entire structure gave way and crashed straight through the reflector below.
Ángel Vázquez, the observatory’s director of telescope operations, was standing outside the control room on the morning of…
46 years ago, Carl Sagan beautifully explained the fourth dimension using a sliced apple
How do you explain the concept of a fourth dimension to humans who are only able to see…