Physicists made a black hole out of light to test Stephen Hawking’s elusive radiation theory
Physicists have coaxed a black hole’s most famous glow out of a strand of optical fiber and, for…
A scientist slipped into a pool beneath a US military base and found a fish later named ‘demon cavefish’ after the Demogorgon from Stranger Things
The Demogorgonichthys arcanus was discovered in a well-known area monitored by biologists for decades (Photo: Matthew Niemiller) A…
Every SpaceX Starlink satellite has to dodge a collision almost weekly, and experts fear the worst
SpaceX’s Starlink satellites made over 355,000 collision avoidance maneuvers throughout the past year, with each satellite now dodging…
Wind turbines were blamed for wrecking the health of 120,000 American households, and a decade of data later, the infrasound they feared left no mark, the low pulse elephants and whales live by
Stand close enough to a spinning wind turbine and you feel it before you hear it. A low,…
Raspberry sugar spotted in interstellar space, a sweet discovery that could reveal clues about life’s origins
Is space … sweet? As it turns out, interstellar space has sugar — and it’s the same type…
All-mechanical coherence protection and fast control of a spin qubit
Schuetz, M. et al. Universal quantum transducers based on surface acoustic waves. Phys. Rev. X 5, 031031 (2015).…
Harbor seal pup shot in head, third incident in less than a year, Washington state wildlife hospital says
A three-week-old male harbor seal is in critical but stable condition and undergoing treatment at a Washington state…
Faint new planet is found after cosmic hide-and-seek
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a faint, elusive planet orbiting a young star after more…
Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow
But how does lactase get this useful shape? It is encoded into the sequence of amino acids that…
In November 1957, a stray dog from Moscow’s streets was strapped into Sputnik 2 and launched into orbit in a capsule never designed to come home — and Soviet officials claimed for 45 years that Laika had died painlessly after several days, until a scientist admitted in 2002 she had died within hours when the thermal control failed.
On 3 November 1957, a small mongrel dog named Laika lay strapped inside a pressurised capsule roughly the…
Spiral Arms and Bars are Galactic Fuel Pumps for Star Formation
Peak star formation took place during the Cosmic Noon between two to three billion years after the Big…
The Grand Tour and the Three-Body Problem — Journey to Neptune
Dear readers, faithful companions of the lantern and the basketball, I am writing to you from home, where…