- September 20, 2024
Bacteria on the space station are evolving for life in space
The International Space Station has its own distinctive microbiome Dima Zel/Shutterstock Bacteria on board the International Space Station (ISS) have evolved new traits in order
Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn
What Earth may have looked like with a ring Oliver Hull After a near miss with an asteroid 466 million years ago, Earth may have
Polaris Dawn mission is one giant leap for private space exploration
An artist’s rendering of the spacewalk on the Polaris Dawn mission SpaceX SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission is a leap forward for private space flight –
Huge new volcano has burst through the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io
This Juno image from February (right) reveals a new volcano that wasn’t there in a Galileo image from 1997 (left) Galileo/JunoCam/NASA A fresh volcano with
The jet stream may be starting to shift in response to climate change
Bands of fast-moving wind that blow west to east around the globe play a crucial role in weather – a poleward shift in parts of
Google breakthrough paves way for large-scale quantum computers
Google has built a number of quantum computers Google If a small quantum computer makes a small number of errors, will a large quantum computer
How to avoid being fooled by AI-generated misinformation
Many AI-generated images look realistic until you take a closer look MidJourney Did you notice that the image above was created by artificial intelligence? It
Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
“There’s no moon, but we can see very well. The sky is full of stars.” The Milky Way in the Atacama desert Alamy Stock Photo
Tweezers made of light could illuminate the quantum twin paradox
Tweezers made from laser beams can hold and move a single atom Aepsilon/Shutterstock The way gravity affects the quantum realm has so far remained mysterious.
Neolithic engineers used scientific knowledge to build huge megalith
The interior of the monument in Spain known as the Menga dolmen Miguel Ángel Blanco de la Rubia Neolithic people seem to have understood sophisticated
