In 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope, the embattled project to build an instrument that could…
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Electronic vortices debut – Fluid flow could enable the next generation of electronics
Long expected but never observed, fluid-like electron vortices can be harnessed for the next generation of…
The supergiant full moon in July will be the largest and brightest moon in 2022
second of two consecutive giants“It will glow brightly in the night sky this week, like Full…
These physicists prefer the new theory of gravity
by Indranil Banik, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astrophysics, University of St Andrews 10 July 2022 Dark…
MIT physicists discover a family of ‘magic’ superconducting graphene structures
Illustration showing superconducting Cooper pairs in the magic-angle multilayer graphene family. The adjacent layers are twisted…
Controversial prehistoric egg identified as last ‘devil death duck’
The only almost completely intact Genyornis eggshell has been discovered. It was located by N. Spooner…
Engineers consult 45-year-old Voyager manuals to fix a bug
In May, NASA scientists said the Voyager 1 spacecraft was sending inaccurate data from it Height…
‘Amazing’ fossilized brains dating back 500 million years prompt a rethinking of the evolution of insects and spiders
Stanley Karis Herbics. Credit: Sabrina Cappelli © Royal Ontario Museum An ancient three-eyed predator reveals key…
A star orbiting the black hole of the Milky Way at 18 million miles per hour
A recently discovered star, now known as S4716, is traveling at an astonishing 5,000 miles (8,000…
Dramatic samples show that the asteroid Bennu is not what scientists expected
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission unleashed an unexpected explosion when it landed on asteroid Bennu in October 2020…