2025-06-24

Tuesday Telescope: A new champion enters the ring

Behold the awesome power of basic science funding by the US government. [...]

2025-06-23

Scientists Are Sending Cannabis Seeds to Space

The versatile cannabis plant could, some scientists think, one day be useful for lunar and Martian colonists. For now, researchers will subject its seeds to radiation in orbit and see what happens. [...]

2025-06-23

Vera C. Rubin Observatory Releases First Breathtaking Celestial Images

A livestream promised more images of deep space from the new observatory. [...]

2025-06-23

The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of everything from the history of the solar system to the workings of dark energ [...]

2025-06-23

How a grad student got LHC data to play nice with quantum interference

New approach is already having an impact on the experiment’s plans for future work. [...]

2025-06-23

This archaeologist built a replica boat to sail like the Vikings

Greer Jarrett has identified four possible small ports, or "havens," used by Vikings along the Norwegian coast. [...]

2025-06-23

India Is Using AI and Satellites to Map Urban Heat Vulnerability Down to the Building Level

Remote-sensing data and artificial intelligence are mapping the most heat-vulnerable buildings in cities like Delhi, in an effort to target relief from extreme temperatures at a granular level. [...]

2025-06-23

Amazon Doubles Project Kuiper Satellite Fleet in Race to Catch Up to SpaceX's Starlink

United Launch Alliance's Atlas V lofted Amazon's second Project Kuiper satellite batch into orbit. [...]

2025-06-23

Researchers get viable mice by editing DNA from two sperm

Altering chemical modifications of DNA lets the DNA from two sperm make a mouse. [...]