The Atlantic Ocean is now hurricane fuel, inviting big storms
The Atlantic keeps breaking records. Tropical Storm Gonzalo formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, the earliest time on record for the seventh named storm of the season to...
$75M in federal grants will fund a new trio of quantum institutes – TechCrunch
Quantum science is just getting started, and although we’ve already hit some important milestones in both theory and practice, basic research is still needed in just about every nook and...
Elon Musk claims his brain chip can stimulate your pleasure center
Neuralink‘s mission has never quite been clear. We know it’s working on a chip designed to be surgically inserted into the human skull called a brain-computer interface (BCI), but exactly...
Flying snakes are able to glide across the air like acrobats. Here’s how they do it.
Humans have been studying so-called flying snakes for a very long time, but it's a recent research paper published in Nature Physics that shows exactly how they are able to...
Burst of gamma rays from 10 billion light years away offers glimpse into the early universe
A short gamma ray burst known to astronomers as SGRB181123B is the second most-distant well-established SGRB ever seen, and the most distant to ever known to display an optical afterglow....
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Why Arctic sea ice just crashed to an extreme, record low
Where there should be ice-clad seas, there is vast, open ocean. Arctic sea ice — declining now for decades — has plummeted to a record-low for this time of year....
Satellites may be at risk to geomagnetic storms due to Earth’s changing magnetic field
The Earth’s magnetic field, generated 3,000km below our feet in the liquid iron core, is crucially important to life on our planet. It extends out into space, wrapping us in...
IBM Research develops new macromolecule that could counter antibiotic resistance – TechCrunch
There are other persistent, grave health crises brewing besides the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic: Antibiotic resistance is one, and the troubling trend is that it’s on the rise, leading to an...
The Solar Orbiter just snapped the closest-ever pictures of the Sun
I traveled 150 million kilometers and forgot the marshmallows? The current global pandemic led to the shutdown of operations at the European Space Operations center (ESOC) in Germany in the...