US start-up seeks miners in race for $20 quadrillion moon resource - New York Post
“It’s the only thing that’s priced high enough to warrant going to space and bringing it back to Earth.”...
Physicists predicted in 1936 that a powerful magnetic field could turn empty space into a kind of prism — and on August 5, 2026, observations of a magnetar with a field more than a trillion times Earth’s produced the strongest evidence yet that they were right. - Space Daily
IXPE and radio polarimetry of magnetar 1E 1547.0−5408 provide the strongest evidence yet for vacuum birefringence, whi...
Before JWST began science operations, a dust-sized particle struck one segment of its 6.5-metre mirror at hypervelocity and left an uncorrectable deformation — damage revealed because Webb can detect nanometre-scale changes in its own optical surface. - Space Daily
Webb detected a permanent deformation on mirror segment C3 through nanometre-scale wavefront sensing, corrected part of ...
“That puzzled us quite a bit.” Scientists found another astonishing thing about narwhals after X-raying their tusks - BBC Wildlife Magazine
The narwhal tusk is one of the more unique structures in the animal kingdom....
The mimic octopus off Indonesia can transform itself into a flatfish, lionfish or banded sea snake — and researchers have even watched it switch into the form of a predator of the fish attacking it, suggesting the disguise can change with the threat - Space Daily
A small octopus on Indonesia's open seafloor has cracked an unexpected survival code: impersonate whatever predator is c...
Astronomers hear a mysterious ‘hum’ across the universe; one explanation begins with strange dark stars 1 - The Times of India
Science News: Astronomers may have found a new way to investigate one of the biggest mysteries in cosmic history: how th...
Nancy Grace Roman Telescope live updates: Roman and Falcon Heavy delivered to launch pad - Space
Aug. 30: The Roman Telescope is progressing as scheduled toward a launch at 7:26 a.m. ET....
A Chicago physicist proposed a way to create quantum images 20 years ago; after two decades waiting for e - The Times of India
Science News: Dirk Morr, a physics professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), has developed a quantum imagin...
Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe’s Origins - WIRED
The discovery redefines how large atoms need to be to produce the extreme state of matter found in the early universe....
How many cosmic particles are passing through your body at any moment? - Live Science
While Earth's atmosphere protects us from harmful cosmic rays, other cosmic particles are passing through us every secon...
The ocean looks like one vast sunlit body of water, but below about 600 feet there is too little light for photosynthesis, and below 3,300 feet sunlight disappears entirely—leaving much of Earth’s surface in permanent darkness. - Space Daily
Photosynthesis is generally confined to the upper 200 metres of the ocean, while direct sunlight disappears below roughl...
Your body is not a machine - Financial Times
Mechanical metaphors are useful, but such reductionism is no guide to life...
Why Dense Islands Of Fir Trees Form In Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains - Cowboy State Daily
A sharp-eyed observer might notice small, dense clusters of trees in the middle of open fields in the Bighorn Mountains....
The universe’s total mass-energy budget, according to standard cosmology: 4.9% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter and 68.3% dark energy — meaning everything made from the atoms on the periodic table accounts for less than one-twentieth of the cosmos. - Space Daily
Planck's 2013 universe inventory assigned 4.9% to ordinary matter, 26.8% to dark matter and 68.3% to dark energy, within...
A fifth-grader in Kansas City clicked ball-and-stick atoms together in science class and asked her teacher if she'd made a real molecule — he photographed it, sent it to a chemistry professor, and at ten years old she became co-author of a published paper on a - Space Daily
A ten-year-old's casual question about her chemistry model kit led to a published paper describing a molecular structure...
At the Cape Canaveral power plant, a single winter count found 585 manatees packed into its warm-water discharge, because prolonged exposure below 68°F can kill a tropical mammal and a cooling system built to dump waste heat has become the artificial - Space Daily
A power plant's waste heat became an accidental refuge for an endangered species—until the infrastructure that saves t...
Scientists melted a diamond and cracked a secret of ice giants - Phys.org
Some of the strangest weather in the solar system doesn't happen on Earth or even in Jupiter's Great Red Spot—it happe...
If the Sun vanished right now, Earth would go dark eight minutes later — but if its sound could cross space at the speed it travels through air, the Sun’s final roar would continue reaching us for nearly 14 years, because light travels 874,000 times faster. - Space Daily
Across one astronomical unit, light takes about 499 seconds. A hypothetical sound wave moving through 20°C air would ne...
Tiny Wrinkles in Graphene Turn It Into a Battery, Physicists Find - ScienceAlert
Graphene is a very special material, only one atom thick....
The last woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, and a 2024 genetic study found inbreeding had not doomed them to a slow decline — their population appears to have vanished suddenly, for reasons that remain unresolved - Space Daily
A thriving population of woolly mammoths vanished abruptly from a remote island, defying every expectation about how sma...
Dylan Graves Breaks Down His POV Surf Imagery Techniques - The Inertia
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How plastic welds retain a molecular 'memory' of their former surfaces to strengthen pipe joints - Phys.org
Welding plastic is a critically important part of everyday engineering—especially for preventing leaks in underground ...
Here's what wrapping your phone in aluminum foil does - How-To Geek
I wrapped my phone in tinfoil....
Ancient volcano with the force of one million nuclear bombs found beneath England - LADbible
Scientists have analysed the terrifying power with which the volcano erupted...