NSF Extends Quantum Sensing Program With Five-Year $37.5M Award
Insider Brief The U.S. National Science Foundation has renewed the Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Quantum Sensing for…
‘He was feeling friendly’: Video captures older blind rhino’s rare soft spot for young newcomer
An Instagram Reel from the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (@sheldricktrust) is drawing attention for a gentle meeting between two…
Red Dwarfs Are Super Stars
The last real star in the universe will be a red dwarf. This will not be for some…
In 2025, Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat than in any year since modern measurements began—an estimated 23 zettajoules, equivalent to roughly 37 years of humanity’s current energy use, largely stored beneath the surface where most of us will never see it.
Earth’s oceans ended 2025 with more heat stored in their upper 2,000 meters than in any other year…
Sun fires powerful M6.9 solar flare and CME toward Earth — could it boost northern lights chances this week?
Today (Aug. 25), the sun unleashed a powerful M6.9 solar flare from a restless Earth-facing sunspot, hurling a…
In a first, physicists observe quantum heat waves at room temperature
In a global first, physicists at the University of California, Los Angeles, have observed a quantum behavior of…
Wildlife cameras planted across a 95 MW Arkansas solar farm built for sheep grazing caught frogs, rare badgers and box turtles forming a full food chain no one designed
A wildlife camera mounted low to the ground captured an American badger, one of the rarest mammals in…
Drones over the Azores recorded two sperm whales turning to face each other, converging at speed and striking head-on with the front of the skull — the battering-ram collision the species’ anatomy had implied for two centuries, and nobody had ever filmed
For two centuries, one detail about the sperm whale has sat there unresolved. Its head, taking up roughly…
Plant life in the warming Arctic alters lush knee-high jungle
TOOLIK LAKE, Alaska (AP) — With no tall trees reaching to the sky, Alaska’s North Slope tundra can…
Auriga Space Field-Tests Electromagnetic Drone Interceptor
Auriga Space Field-Tests Electromagnetic Drone Interceptor | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Steve Trimble August 25,…
Where the Beam Points Next: Autonomous Experiments Take Shape at CHESS
An X-ray experiment at Cornell recently did something unusual: It decided for itself where to take its next…
Protected cormorants foul Spring Lake marina, neighbors left with few options
SPRING LAKE, Mich. — A growing double-crested cormorant colony has turned Village Cove Marina in Spring Lake into…