No more leap seconds! Timekeeping is officially changing
The world’s timekeepers announced on Thursday that leap seconds will no longer be added to clocks starting in…
Physicists find evidence of weird quantum ‘Bethe strings’ nearly 100 years after they were predicted
“Necklaces” of ultracold atoms have provided new evidence to support a nearly 100-year-old quantum theory. In 1931, physicists…
Rescue who weighed same as baby hippo sheds pounds, finds home
By Georgia Cook A massive rescue dog that weighed the same as a baby hippo has shed the…
Stanford Just Figured Out How to Lead Dying Coral Reefs to a ‘Fast and Full Recovery’
Let’s set aside the fact that coral reefs are essential wellsprings of marine biodiversity, colorful aquatic oases that…
Kīlauea Visitor Center Renovations Nearly Complete – Big Island Video News
(BIVN) – The renovation of the Kīlauea Visitor Center in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is nearly complete and…
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…