U.S. physicists rally around ambitious plan to build fusion power plant
U.S. fusion scientists, notorious for squabbling over which projects to fund with their field’s limited budget, have coalesced around an audacious goal. A 10-year plan presented last week to the federal Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee is the first since the community tried to formulate such a road map in […]
Europe hopes new R&D fund will boost meager defense capabilities and create opportunities for science
This summer, in a leafy, wooded area near Utrecht, the Netherlands, scientists were testing out battlefield haute couture: adaptive camouflage. Researchers with the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research mounted a swath of fabric on a stand and watched as its pattern shifted to match the greens and browns of […]
Dogs will never speak human. Here’s why.
Dogs’ brains cannot distinguish words that differ by a single speech sound, such as “sit” versus “set.”
Epic time-lapse shows what the Milky Way will look like 400,000 years from now
The night sky will appear completely different half a million years from now. Researchers figured out what it’ll look like.
These simple steps can help prevent heat-related fatalities
This summer, children living in a small town above the Arctic Circle took a dip in the lake. The region had reached an unprecedented 38°C. But it’s not all fun and games: Increased heat exposure is poised to impact the health of more than 4 billion people by 2100, causing […]
In surprising sign of resilience, some corals can survive long heat waves
Just a few degrees of heat can “bleach” corals, putting them on a path to starvation and death. Driven by climate change, marine heat waves are becoming one of the greatest threats to the existence of tropical reefs. But in some rare good news, researchers have discovered some corals can […]
Did the universe’s creator hide a message in the cosmos?
Why a physicist is looking for that message.
COVID-19: All available vaccine doses made in Europe ‘will arrive before Brexit’
The manufacturing lead for the UK’s vaccine taskforce said the jabs will be brought into the country before the country leaves the EU.
Scientists finally think they know why these pandas like to roll in horse poop
The panda bear may one of the world’s cutest animals, but it also has one of the world’s grossest habits: Giant pandas in central China’s Foping National Nature Reserve like to rub horse manure on their necks and faces and roll around in it to cover their entire bodies. Now, […]