A hospitalized patient in Missouri was infected with bird flu despite having had no known contact with dairy cows or other animals associated with an ongoing...
After an exhaustive review of suspect transistors in NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, NASA managers have cleared the probe for launch next month as planned on a...
In another SpaceX milestone, billionaire Jared Isaacman and company crew trainer Sarah Gillis took turns floating just outside their Crew Dragon capsule early Thursday in the...
A tsunami stemming from a landslide in a Greenland fjord, caused by melting ice, was behind a surprising seismic event last year that shook the earth...
The September Harvest Moon, a partial lunar eclipse, will make its debut in the sky Monday evening and last through Thursday morning. The full moon will...
IN THE Antarctic, things happen at a glacial pace. Just ask Peter Gorham. For a month at a time, he and his colleagues would watch a...
WHEN Joseph Conlon was an undergraduate in the early 2000s, he avoided popular science accounts of string theory because he wanted to engage with it on...
Altermagnetism works differently from standard magnetism Libor Šmejkal and Anna Birk Hellenes A new kind of magnetism has been measured for the first time. Altermagnets, which...
An optical cavity like this could be used in a quantum engine Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics A single atom inside of a reflective cavity...
There is a brand new way to keep things cool Botyev Volodymyr/Shutterstock A new type of cooling relies on an exotic quantum mechanical property rather than...
All objects exert a gravitational pull, no matter how small Karl Dolenc/BeholdingEye/Getty Images A device that can measure the gravitational force on a particle that weighs...
Robots will dismantle the JET reactor from the inside EUROfusion The JET nuclear fusion reactor in Oxfordshire, UK, set many records over its 40 years of...
Inside the construction of the ITER reactor The UK government has declined an invitation to become an official member of the ITER nuclear fusion experiment, having...
In 2023, the Joint European Torus (JET) turned 40. JET is a fusion energy tokamak device based in Oxfordshire, UK, operated by the UK Atomic Energy...
Construction of the DUNE 35-ton prototype detector Reidar Hahn AT SOME point in our lives, most of us learn that atoms are comprised of three types...
Vortices on Jupiter, captured by NASA’s Juno mission in 2022 NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift Stunning patterns in Jupiter’s atmosphere have been replicated more accurately than ever before in...
You can sip your coffee thanks to the fundamental forces of nature Vladimir Arndt / Alamy The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time...
Post-quantum gravity could explain the rotation speed of galaxies, which is normally seen as evidence for dark matter NASA, ESA, CSA A potential new theory of...
A “phonon laser” emits particles of sound instead of light Dmytro Razinkov/Alamy A tiny, levitated bead is at the core of an unprecedentedly bright laser that...
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ARE there vastly many near-duplicates of you reading vastly many near-duplicates of this article in vastly many parallel universes? Is consciousness a fundamental property of all...
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THE fans roar into life, pumping air upwards at 260 kilometres per hour. Decked out in a baggy blue jumpsuit, red helmet and plastic goggles, Claudia...
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Have we spotted hints of gravitons? zf L/Getty Images Physicists have been searching for gravitons, the hypothetical particles thought to carry gravity, for decades. These have...
Claudia de Rham has spent much of her life dedicated to exploring the limits and true nature of gravity. As she describes in her new book,...
A hydrogel disc can increase 100 times in area when stretched Lili Chen et al. A hydrogel that can stretch to around 15 times its initial...
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Shutterstock/Creative-Touch A century ago, it was possible for a physicist to know almost everything there was to know about physics. Now, this is far from the...
Physicists have used light to make the imaginary measurable Borkin Vadim/Shutterstock It should be impossible to measure an imaginary number in the lab, but a group...
Physicist Peter Higgs in Italy in 1996 Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images Groundbreaking theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died at age 94. Higgs’s work explaining how elementary particles...
U.S. crude oil rose nearly 1% on Thursday, one day after the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates for the first time in more than four years...
This is the first direct look at a bizarre crystal made of only electrons Yazdani Lab, Princeton University It is hard to coax electrons to form...
Peter Higgs at the Science Museum in London in 2013 Photo by Andy Rain/EPA/Shutterstock Peter Higgs lived a singular life. He developed a physics theory that...
Supersolids, created using lasers, have some unusual properties Chris Rogers/Getty Images Some solids can be stirred. Researchers have shown that a bizarre quantum state of matter...
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For Alan Barr, it started during the covid-19 lockdowns. “I had a bit more time. I could sit and think,” he says. He had enjoyed being part...
Once an obscure name, Talen Energy Corporation has taken Wall Street by surprise to become one of the hottest stocks in the utility space this year,...
Inside the DIII-D tokamak fusion reactor Rswilcox (CC BY-SA 4.0) A nuclear fusion reaction has overcome two key barriers to operating in a “sweet spot” needed...
Triangular gold flakes can be manipulated using mysterious quantum forces George Zograf/CC BY-NC 4.0 Tiny gold devices for controlling light have been built using strange quantum...
Dark matter halos (yellow) form around galaxies Ralf Kaehler/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Delicate might not be the first word that springs to mind when you think of...
Previously, physicists theorised that black holes are the fastest possible scramblers of information MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Alamy When two quantum objects interact, all the information they...
Today’s superconductors usually only function when cooled to incredibly low temperatures. Kiyoshi Takahase Segundo / Alamy Stock Photo It would be unfair to call it a...
A nuclear test on 3 July 1970 at Fangataufa atoll, French Polynesia Science History Images / Alamy Fusion reactors could allow a country to accelerate its...
These futuristic batteries could eventually charge electric vehicles at a fraction of today’s speeds da-kuk/Getty Images Quantum batteries could one day charge electronics much quicker than...
Smoke rings are similar to the vortices created in laser light Yevhen Rychko / Alamy Stock Photo Short pulses from a laser can be twisted into...
The heat-trapping device reached 1050°C in experiments mark bulmer/Alamy Engineers have developed a device that can generate temperatures of over 1000°C (1832°F) by efficiently capturing energy...
Some claims of high-temperature superconductivity were unable to be recreated Shutterstock / Dragon Claws Physics is in a crisis. Over the past year, a series of...
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Fractal geometry is common in nature Shutterstock/Sabine Hortebusch You have almost certainly seen computer-generated fractals – beautiful, trippy images in which colourful, intricate structures repeat ad...
The most powerful X-ray pulse ever reported carried nearly a terawatt of power Illustration Greg Stewart/Photography Alberto Gamazo/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory The most powerful pulse of...
Entanglement is a key part of quantum computing Bartlomiej K. Wroblewski/Alamy While scientists generally try to find sensible explanations for weird phenomena, quantum entanglement has them tied...
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Ryan wills/istock/Amtitus When Seth Lloyd first published his ideas about quantum time loops, he hadn’t considered all the consequences. For one thing, he hadn’t anticipated the...
When I heard Stephen Hawking extol the mysteries of black holes, I knew theoretical physics was what I wanted to do. There is still so much...
Where does time come from? Quality Stock / Alamy Time may not be a fundamental element of our physical reality. New calculations add credence to the...
For an experiment designed to reverse time, the apparatus was surprisingly simple: little more than a tank of water. With a puff of air to disturb...
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Science fiction’s visions of multiple universes differ from the real theory Science Photo Library / Alamy The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time...
Adobe Stock/Erika Eros/Alamy/Collage: Ryan Wills Deep inside a black hole, the cosmos gets twisted beyond comprehension. Here, at some infinitesimal point of infinite density, the fabric...
Hitting certain crystals with lasers makes them produce quantum light Jaka Korenjak Creating quantum light just became easier thanks to liquid crystals like the ones found...
Two types of fusion reactor called tokamaks and stellarators both have drawbacks – but a new design combining parts from both could offer the best of...
Quantum states can be surprisingly energetic David Wall/Getty In quantum mechanics, the whole can be much greater than the sum of its parts, according to new...
Shutterstock/Dr. Norbert Lange This story is part of our Cosmic Perspective series, in which we confront the staggering vastness of the cosmos and our place in...
This story is part of our Cosmic Perspective series, in which we confront the staggering vastness of the cosmos and our place in it. Read the...
This story is part of our Cosmic Perspective special, in which we confront the staggering vastness of the cosmos and our place in it. Read the...
Splitting qubits inside a quantum computer into high and low-energy groups can charge a battery Shutterstock / Pavel Chukhov A 19th-century thought experiment, considered for decades...
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Time is a huge problem. Of course, there is our social and biological sentiment about it: we all want more of it and/or are worried about...
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An aerial view of ITER ITER Organization/EJF Riche ITER, the world’s largest fusion power project, has been hit by a 10-year delay, meaning plans to switch...
An experiment with a robot and gelatine determined that 65-micrometre-thick paper is the most prone to slicing our skin – but it can also make for...
Can you find you way out from the red centre of the maze? Scroll down for the solution University of Bristol An algorithm designed to find...
We tend not to dwell on the fact that we exist in three dimensions. Forwards-back, left-right, up-down; these are the axes on which we navigate the...
A special laser (red) can spiralise electrons (blue) Dr. Yiqi Fang, University of Konstanz An electron has been turned into a spiralling wave of mass and...
Not all clocks look like a pocket watch Oleksandr Perepelytsia / Alamy Any random sequence of events, such as the lapping of ocean waves on the...
Getty Images We’re in the midst of a Moon rush. A growing number of countries and companies have the lunar surface in their sights in a...
Not all diving boards obey the laws of thermodynamics vm/Getty Images A microscopic version of a diving board has been driven to cheat the second law...
Nasa has selected Elon Musk’s SpaceX company to bring down the International Space Station at the end of its life. The California-based company will build a...
Light can get away with an impossibly fast journey due to quantum fuzziness Михаил Руденко/Getty Images/iStockphoto In the quantum realm, seemingly impossible things are happening every...
A never-seen-before space image of the interior structure of a storm cloud has been released by the European and Japanese space agencies. Their Earthcare satellite used...
The 30-metre-deep assembly pit for the tokamak ©enrico sacchetti Extreme in scale and ambition, this is ITER, the €20-billion energy project being built in southern France....
Moment Ariane-6 takes off for first mission Europe’s big new rocket, Ariane-6, has blasted off on its maiden flight. The vehicle set off from a launchpad...
A jiggling robot has revealed the ideal vibrating speed to free jumbled fibres Source link
Kevin Church/BBC Rory Golden was on the Titan’s support ship when the submersible went missing A witness to the Titan submersible disaster has told BBC News...
Huge stars collapsing or colliding create gamma ray bursts NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ A. Simonnet, Sonoma State University The most powerful explosion astronomers have ever...
Derren Fox/BAS A23a is vast. Its flat, table-like top stretches to the horizon Something remarkable has happened to A23a, the world’s biggest iceberg. For months now...
Growing up in the US during the oil embargo of the early 1970s, I was bombarded by public service announcements encouraging people to conserve energy. But...
Thames Water, Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water face £168m fines by the industry regulator over historic sewage spills. The proposal will now go to public consultation...
Multidirectional waves created in a circular tank grew higher and larger than those in the one-way tanks Thomas Davey and Ross Calvert Ships, wind farms, oil...
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg There have been five mass coral-bleaching events at the Great Barrier Reef over the past nine years A study of samples taken from inside...
In experiments, subatomic particles don’t always behave as theory would predict ATLAS Collaboration The puzzling behaviour of a fundamental particle called a muon, which some scientists...
Scientists have discovered a reservoir of liquid water on Mars – deep in the rocky outer crust of the planet. The findings come from a new...
Shutterstock/Sarath maroli The Other ValleyScott Alexander Howard (Atlantic Books (UK); Atria Books (US)) The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard is an unusual and deeply enjoyable...
Dawn Pummintr/BBC Stonehenge now has stones from all over Great Britain The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from the far north of...
Do quantum interactions help brain cells stay in sync? Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Nerve fibres in the brain could produce pairs of particles linked by quantum entanglement....
Persisting solar storms created the ideal conditions for aurora borealis in the northern hemisphere, displaying a spectacle that could be seen from space. The astronaut Matthew...
Flat rocks may not deliver the most dramatic splash Julian Brooks/Alamy When you want to find a rock that will make the biggest possible splash, you...
UCL A cluster of Scottish islands could help solve one of our planet’s greatest mysteries, scientists say. The Garvellach islands off the west coast of Scotland...
U.S. crude oil fell Wednesday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s pivotal decision on interest rates later this afternoon. “In theory a rate cut is supportive for...
Commercially available quantum technology could let stock traders coordinate decisions to buy or sell nearly instantaneously using a technique called “quantum telepathy” Source link
SpaceX Tyche was launched on a SpaceX Falcon rocket from California The UK military has launched its first ever dedicated Earth-imaging satellite. Called Tyche, the washing...
A century ago, Albert Einstein suggested that the universe might contain ripples in space-time, known as gravitational waves – but then he changed his mind Source...
Getty Images Starlink satellites are usually easily seen by the naked eye in the night sky Radio waves from Elon Musk’s growing network of satellites are...
In the quantum realm, a particle’s properties can be separate from the particle itself, including its angular momentum – which could require a rethinking of fundamental...
Peter Barrett / BBC Weather Watchers Sunday’s sunrise in Hornchurch, East London Smoke from wildfires across the Atlantic has brought spectacular vivid colours to sunsets and...
Experiments in a wind tunnel have revealed why the sling action bowling technique made famous by Sri Lankan cricketer Lasith Malinga is so effective at hoodwinking...
Getty Images Sir Brian May says speaking out against badger culling is “as important to me as music” Queen guitarist Sir Brian May says new research...
An experiment with beams of photons has confirmed quantum weirdness exists luchschenF/Shutterstock The world is as weird as we feared. A new experiment confirms yet again...
Getty Images A beaver and kits at Otterton, Devon A network of wildlife charities is calling for beavers to be released into rivers across England and...
Quantum effects result in particles behaving like waves that interfere with each other Shutterstock/sakkmesterke The fuzziness of the quantum world has been demonstrated on its largest-ever...
Badger culling will end in England within five years as part of a shift in the fight against bovine tuberculosis, the government said on Friday. As...
Composite image of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in New York and the particle tracks it detects Joe Rubino and Jen Abramowitz/Brookhaven National Laboratory Our collection...
Video shows Titanic missing large section of railing It was the image that made the Titanic’s wreck instantly recognisable – the ship’s bow looming out of...
Nuclear plants could become smaller, simpler and easier to build in the future, potentially revolutionizing a power source that is increasingly viewed as critical to the...
Lasers can have a cooling effect in quantum experiments Mike_shots/Shutterstock In the strange world of quantum mechanics, nothing isn’t ever actually nothing — and now we...
Water company bosses could be banned from receiving bonuses and even sent to prison under new government legislation to combat pollution. The proposed laws will apply...
Khalid Al-Falih, Saudi Arabia’s investment minister, during the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Saudi...
Heat can reveal whether something has quantum properties SkillUp/Shutterstock Everything radiates heat, but when quantum objects do it, they can reveal properties that would otherwise be...
Kevin Church/BBC A repeating tone – blip, blip, blip – is the audible reminder that we are in one of the most hazardous nuclear sites in...
SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 06: In this photo illustration, the Coinbase logo is displayed on a screen on June 06, 2023 in San Anselmo, California....
An array of sensors at the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment in South Dakota Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility The latest hunt for dark matter has come...
EPA The supermoon with a partial lunar eclipse was seen around the world – with this picture taken from Jerusalem A supermoon has lit up the...
Cylib, a startup backed by Porsche and Bosch, is building a huge electric vehicle battery recycling facility in Dormagen, a town in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia region....
A single ytterbium atom, cooled down to extreme temperatures and manipulated with laser beams, could reveal how gravity affects quantum objects Source link
BBC There’s nothing new about genetic engineering. By cross-breeding plants and animals, our Stone Age ancestors realised they could boost the amount of food they produced....
For investors with a stomach strong enough to digest the volatility of the steel market, JPMorgan has two stock recommendations that could see significant upside. The...
We are closer to understanding how liquid behaves in the interiors of planets, such as Venus Artsiom P/Shutterstock Researchers have compressed super-hot liquids between diamonds to...
Jeff Kerby Scientists were able to pin down the location of the tsunami to a remote fjord in East Greenland A massive landslide in a Greenland...
U.S. crude oil futures rebounded more than 1% on Monday after posting the worst week since October 2023. The U.S. benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, and the...
Atoms tunnelling through a quantum battery could charge it and also keep it from losing energy, which could give an advantage over conventional batteries Source link
Andrew Cooper, Butterfly Conservation The small tortoiseshell butterfly has suffered its worst year on record in the count A wildlife charity has declared a national “butterfly...
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Polarised light can make messages encoded in a quantum hologram disappear Hong Liang, Wai Chun Wong, Tailin An, Jensen Li 2024 A quantum disappearing act could...
‘I’m not getting in it’ – Former OceanGate employees decry Titan sub safety issues A former employee of the company behind the doomed Titan submersible has...
After last week’s steep sell-off, oil prices suggest traders are pricing in a demand slowdown that is similar to a mild recession, according to a Morgan...
Ryan Wills; adboestock/Getty images As one of the original architects of quantum theory, perhaps our most successful scientific idea, you would think that Niels Bohr would...
Alyona Synenko/ICRC In spite of the catastrophic challenges Somalia faces – including drought, flooding, conflict and climate change – some are optimistic about the country’s future...
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Ekkehard Peik is a clock-maker. But instead of spending his days looking at tiny cogs and springs through a magnifying glass, the tools of his trade are...
RMS Titanic / Getty The Titan sub was on a trip to see the wreck of the Titanic It was the submersible that promised passengers the...
Crude oil futures on Tuesday closed at the lowest level since December 2021, as the market sell-off gained speed after OPEC lowered its demand forecast for...
Can effect come before cause in the quantum realm? Maybe not Vink Fan/Shutterstock First comes cause, then comes effect – or does it? This order of...
SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew has returned to Earth after five days in orbit, following a historic mission featuring the world’s first commercial spacewalk. The Dragon capsule...
A view of Oracle’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, on Sept. 11, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Oracle chairman and co-founder Larry Ellison had a...
If the multiverse exists, our world could fit right in MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images Could we live in a quantum multiverse without ever noticing its...
NASA Work to build the International Space Station began in 1998 In June two American astronauts left Earth expecting to spend eight days on the International...
Stand With Crypto’s bus tour through five battleground states kicked off last week in Phoenix and Las Vegas. Logan Dobson/Stand With Crypto Alliance A big purple...
The CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider SciTech Image/James King-Holmes/Alamy Stock Photo A possible crack in the standard model of particle physics seems to be...
Sir David Attenborough has been presenting wildlife programmes for 70 years Seventy years after he first fronted a wildlife programme, Sir David Attenborough is keenly aware...
As presidential nominees Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump prepare to face off in their first debate Tuesday night, voters will be tuning...
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Wednesday’s key moments. 1....
Caroline Ellison, former chief executive officer of Alameda Research LLC, arrives to court in New York, US, on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg |...
U.S. crude oil rebounded more than 2% on Wednesday, regaining some ground after prices closed at the lowest level in nearly three years in the previous...
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris listens to former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speak during a presidential debate at...
Grace Cary | Moment | Getty Images Inflation continued to throttle back in August, signaling that the fast-rising prices that plagued the U.S. economy for the...
The team from the Geological Agency of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) took samples of natural hydrogen gas found in One Pute Jaya...
The sharp slump in crude oil this month has driven down energy stocks, but the pullback also presents an opportunity for investors to gain exposure to...
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D3sign | Moment | Getty Images Inflation cooled in August and fell to its lowest level since February 2021, which was around the time the consumer...
U.S. crude oil jumped more than 2% to close above $68 per barrel on Thursday after Hurricane Francine churned through the Gulf of Mexico, disrupting oil...
The future of lithium production in the U.S. is gaining momentum in Arkansas, as companies like ExxonMobil, Albemarle, and Standard Lithium make significant investments in the...
MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 Conference in Miami on June 4, 2021. CFOTO | Nurphoto | Getty Images MicroStrategy shares jumped more...
A bitcoin sign is seen in the main hall during the Bitcoin 2024 conference at Music City Center July 26, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. Jon Cherry...
More than two hours into Republican former President Donald Trump‘s World Liberty Financial launch event on X Monday night, the team behind the Trump family’s new crypto project...
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Firefighters protect a neighborhood from a fire in a pipeline carrying liquified natural gas burns near Spencer Highway and Summerton on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024 in...
U.S. crude oil rose above $71 per barrel on Tuesday, as optimism grows that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this week and production is...