Six portable telescopes to beat light pollution
Light pollution is the astronomer’s biggest enemy, especially if you’re gazing into deep space. And while some of…
Your beer can only cool so fast. Blame quantum mechanics – Physics World
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How Wild Peanut Breeding Changed Global Crop Improvement
Researchers traced genes from a single Bolivian crop wild relative into 251 peanut lines and cultivars across 30…
The ‘Fish-Prawn’ Filmed Walking Backwards In The Deep Sea Is Not Actually A Hybrid
Deep on the floor of the northern South China Sea, a fish with a body like a shrimp…
‘Incredible’: bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour
This video shows a bleached coral fragment brought back to health within weeks through fusion with a vibrant…
Can Maine use natural methods to stop shoreline erosion?
Lisa Vickers, a senior coastal specialist at GEI Consultants, talks about their nature-based shoreline stabilization proposal during a…
This is a real image of a huge ‘super Jupiter’ exoplanet close to Earth, and it’s one of the coldest ever seen
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a direct imaged of a distant planet orbiting another star just…
Cyril Hilsum obituary | Physics
Cyril Hilsum’s research into stable liquid crystals and the devices in which they could be used paved the…
There’s a rare and very strange animal in the Pyrenees that looks like a tiny, hairy elephant
Elusive, aquatic and wonderfully odd, the Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) is one of Europe’s most mysterious mammals. Found…
The Doomsday Glacier is melting ‘more aggressively’ than thought, study finds
The planet’s widest glacier is melting “more aggressively” than previously projected, meaning its impacts on global sea level…
The hidden costs of fracking: boom in Argentina linked to trail of sickness | Global development
In Allen, a small town in Argentine Patagonia, many people living on the same street ended up falling…
What is Starshield? SpaceX’s military Starlink explained
Uncertainty over who controls SpaceX’s military satellite system, Starshield, has drawn renewed attention, as restrictions on the technology…