
Ars Technica - 1 day 9 hours ago
The binary asteroid's orbit around the Sun was affected by the impact.

New Scientist - 1 day 9 hours ago
NASA's DART mission slammed into the small asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the impact slowed its orbit around the larger Didymos and also the pair's path around the sun...

NBC News - 1 day 10 hours ago
Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a collaboration of scientists, indigenous communities and citizen scientists...

New York Times - 1 day 10 hours ago
Lise Meitner in an undated photo with the German nuclear chemist Otto Hahn.

Retraction Watch - 1 day 10 hours ago
As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in England. So when a colleague couldn't locate two references in a paper and asked for help, the librarian grew suspicious. "These were recent references, which usually we have no problem finding," Waite told us. … Continue reading Librarian finds preposterous number' of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 11 hours ago
That's going to leave a dent.

The Independent - 1 day 12 hours ago
More people than ever believe the world will end within their lifetime, scientists say...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 13 hours ago
A quantum internet is only as useful as its reach, and in a first, researchers created more than a million qubit pairs across 100 kilometers of fiber.

The Guardian - 1 day 14 hours ago
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Ni o Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found. Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. Continue reading...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 14 hours ago
Inside a cavernous hall at the Swiss-French border, the air hums with high voltage and possibility. From his perch on the wraparound observation deck, physicist Walter Wuensch surveys a multimillion-dollar array of accelerating cavities, klystrons, modulators, and pulse compressors hardware being readied to drive a new generation of linear particle accelerators. Wuensch has spent decades working with these machines to crack the deepest mysteries of the universe. Now he and his colleagues are aiming...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 14 hours ago
It sounds like an oxymoron, but we could find the origin of consciousness in our brains using the brains of those who are unconscious.

How It Works - 1 day 14 hours ago
Competition closes 15/03/26 00:00GMT The post Win 1 of 10 Build Your Own Microscope Kits appeared first on How It Works .

The Conversation - 1 day 14 hours ago
The Orinoco Basin is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. It's also rich in oil, gold and critical minerals crucial to modern technology.

The Conversation - 1 day 14 hours ago
The Orinoco Basin is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. It's also rich in oil, gold and critical minerals crucial to modern technology.

New York Times - 1 day 14 hours ago
A dried part of the Arkansas River in Garden City, Kan.

The Guardian - 1 day 16 hours ago
First of the trusts, formed with 12 people in a Norfolk pub in 1926, buys swath of farmland to restore to nature The place where Norton Wood once stood is now a vast field of decaying wheat stubble. The ancient wood was grubbed up during the second world war. No trace of it remains on the surface, at least. This ghost in the landscape lives on only in the name of the local village: Wood Norton. But trees will soon be bursting upwards again and the wood will regrow after Norfolk Wildlife Trust celebrated...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 17 hours ago
Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) using low earth orbit (LEO) satellites present unique technical challenges, from managing large satellite constellations to ensuring reliable communication links. In this webinar, we'll explore how to address these complexities using comprehensive modeling and simulation techniques. Discover how to model and analyze satellite orbits, onboard antennas and arrays, transmitter power amplifiers (PAs), signal propagation channels, and the RF and digital receiver segments...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 17 hours ago
A neurological disease spread by rats and other animals may have become established in San Diego County.

Newser - 1 day 17 hours ago
Louisiana woke up to a jolt Thursday that seismologists say was unusually strong for a state better known for hurricanes than quakes. A magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit just north of Coushatta in northwest Louisiana around 5:30am, according to the US Geological Survey . It was the second most powerful...

Wired - 1 day 18 hours ago
Women's sleep apnea symptoms differ from men's and can often be confused with hormonal shifts. Researchers are working to close the detection gap.

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 18 hours ago
As I write this, the forecast calls for snow in the next day or so. It won't be enough at my house, and certainly will be insufficient for the mountains. No matter how much snow falls at this point, it will be nowhere near enough to make up for our absolutely abysmal winter here in […] The post Let It Snow — Please, For the Love of All That Is Good appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Nature - 2 days 4 hours ago
Disaggregating data by sex is a powerful way to help develop better diagnostics and treatments for women but researchers say it's not used enough.

Nature - 2 days 4 hours ago
Earth is now warming at a rate of around 0.35 C per decade, fresh analysis finds.

Nature - 2 days 4 hours ago
Hormone therapy is back after decades in the shadows. But evidence gaps remain for treating perimenopause often the most disruptive part of the menopause transition.