NASA Names Stephen Cash Marshall Space Flight Center Director
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Stephen Cash director of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,…
Cavity-less Brillouin strong coupling in a solid-state continuous system
Novotny, L. Strong coupling, energy splitting, and level crossings: a classical perspective. Am. J. Phys. 78, 1199–1202 https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3471177…
Whalefall true story: How realistic is the movie? A sperm whale biologist weighs in.
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Unprecedented atlas explores mitochondria across the tree of life
The protein catalogue gives a dynamic picture of the mitochondria, beyond what was known from humans and yeast.…
Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest on record as pivotal vote looms | Amazon rainforest
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest level since records began, new government data shows.…
Artemis II Heat Shield After Splashdown
Shortly after NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery…
Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude \ Anthropic
Quantum computers will need carefully designed circuits to run useful algorithms on limited hardware. We gave Claude plain-language…
Could a whale swallow a human, ‘Whalefall’ style?
In the new film “Whalefall,” a scuba diver has a very bad day. On what should be a…
Astronomers discover first-ever green star
Astronomers analyzing white dwarf stars have for the first time found a star that would appear green to…
I spent a year visiting ‘world-class’ cities. Here’s how Canada compares on the global stage
Justin McElroy is a Vancouver-based journalist and author of the new book Searching for the Best Place on…
On this day in space! Oct. 16, 1975: NASA launches the 1st-ever GOES weather satellite to watch Earth from space
On Oct. 16, 1975, NASA launched the first operational GOES satellite! GOES-A was the first in a series…
A Radio Phoenix Beyond the Zone of Avoidance
We’ve gotta give credit to space scientists. They come up with great names for things, probably because so…