A high-altitude balloon launched by the US Army Pacific in the Philippines in 2022 as part of an exercise to strengthen cooperation between the two nations The US military is planning to launch balloons that are capable of providing high-altitude...
Polarised light can make messages encoded in a quantum hologram disappearHong Liang, Wai Chun Wong, Tailin An, Jensen Li 2024 A quantum disappearing act could make it possible to embed secure messages in holograms and selectively erase parts of them...
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...
JWST images of little red dot galaxiesJosephine F.W. Baggen et al. (2024) Strangely bright galaxies spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), called “little red dots”, may have more stars packed into them than any other galaxies we know...
Mpox commonly causes lesions that can blister and scarCDC/Associated Press/Alamy Mpox cases are surging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and several of its neighbouring countries. The DRC alone has reported more than 15,000 cases and more than 500...
Back in the early 2000s, when I was butting heads seemingly every week with people who believed the Apollo moon landings were faked, such individuals would pull out an argument they thought was their ace in the hole: If NASA’s...
August 30, 20244 min readBuy Experiences instead of Possessions to Build Social ConnectionShared experiences, more than material things, bring people togetherBy Amit Kumar The human being is a “social animal,” as Aristotle suggested. We have a fundamental need to belong....
Illustration of a swiftly rotating brown dwarfNASA/JPL-Caltech Dark matter-fuelled brown dwarfs could be lurking at the centres of galaxies. If astronomers manage to spot them, they could teach us about how dark matter interacts with regular matter. Brown dwarfs are...
An illustration of three of the four satellites that make up the Cluster mission to monitor Earth’s magnetic fieldESA – CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO A half-tonne satellite will be watched as it falls to Earth by scientists on a private...
The OceanXplorer team work together to tag a Greenland sharkMario Tadinac/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OceanXplorersNational GeographicDisney+ With the prominent X in the middle of its title, OceanXplorers sounds like something from the 1990s trend of making “extreme” versions of familiar things to draw...
