Four arrested over suspected poisoning of elephants in Kenya – BBC
Four arrested over suspected poisoning of elephants in Kenya BBCToxic substances seized, four farmers arrested over elephant deaths in…
Quantum signals escape fiber, travel 13 miles in open air in New York
It may sound surprising, but one of the most stubborn problems in building quantum networks is that cables…
This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly | Tim Winton
Well, there’s no getting around it now. What many of us once feared has become a reality. The…
NASA’s New Space Telescope Is Poised to Discover Hidden Facets of the Universe
“If we consider what the James Webb Space Telescope is doing, it’s optimized towards looking at the very…
Japan’s Full-Stack Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer is Operational
Insider Brief Japan’s Institute for Molecular Science has begun operating Shunkai, the country’s first full-stack neutral-atom quantum computer,…
Rare black fox discovered in Chicago’s north suburbs
Most red foxes are — predictably, given the name of the breed — reddish in color, skewing orange.…
The universe is 13.8 billion years old, yet the observable universe is about 93 billion light-years across. That isn’t because light broke its own speed limit: while the oldest light travelled toward us, the space separating us from its source continued to expand, leaving that source’s present-day location roughly 46.5 billion light-years away.
The apparent contradiction begins with a calculation that would be perfectly reasonable in a static universe. Light travels…
A landslide at a landfill in the capital of Guinea kills 30 people, officials say
Conakry, GuineaAP — A mountainous heap of refuse collapsed at the largest landfill in Guinea‘s capital of Conakry early…
NASA Starshade Would Enable Astronomers To Directly Image Rocky Exoworlds
A NASA-led team is hoping to take a short cut in directly imaging extrasolar earthlike planets. The idea…
Freezing liquid inside optical fibre makes light and sound interact more than 1,000 times more strongly
Representational photo of a frozen optical fiber core in a glass capillary, which guides and couples light and…
GBH Daily: Emily the elephant
This is a web edition of GBH Daily, a weekday newsletter bringing you local stories you can trust…
‘Cookies’ made from plastic may be on the menu for future astronauts | Food
Cookies produced from upcycled plastic may sound like something straight out of a dystopian sci-fi plot. But researchers…