Why this physicist is bringing thermodynamics into the quantum age
Advertisements Imagine Victorian London, but its skies are filled with airplanes. Steam robots crowd the streets, mingling with people in…
An mRNA vaccine protected mice against the deadly gut bacteria C. difficile
Advertisements Clostridioides difficile is an extremely nasty intestinal bug, with few effective treatments and no approved vaccines. But the same…
X-rays from nuclear explosions can protect Earth from asteroids
Advertisements An asteroid heading toward Earth can be deflected without ever touching a spacecraft. The trick is to use X-rays…
There is a new term for trying to master the wind
Advertisements Wind ownership is available. As an unpaid intern at an energy company in England, Emilia Groupp spent two years…
50 years ago, satellites threatened astronomers’ view of the cosmos
Advertisements Satellites interfere with radio astronomy – Scientific news, October 5, 1974 In the past, satellites and probes launched by…
Storms ignite a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays
Advertisements Above the cloud tops, storms blow with a complex and frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view from…
Europa Clipper is starting to solve an alien mystery
Advertisements NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will soon be on its way to help solve a quarter-century-old mystery: Could anything live…
Discovery of key machine learning tools wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
Advertisements As artificial intelligence explodes in popularity, two of its pioneers have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics….
What causes rivers to suddenly change course?
Advertisements Displacement is in the nature of a river. But when a river breaks from its channel and carves a…
Runaway stars can impact the cosmos far away from their galaxies
Advertisements Dozens of runaway stars were caught escaping from a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky…