NASA’s TESS mission finds ‘missing link’ planets
NASA's newest planet-hunting satellite has discovered a type of planet missing from our own solar system.
Launched in 2018, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or...
Travelling towards a quantum internet at light speed
A research team lead by Osaka University demonstrated how information encoded in the circular polarization of a laser beam can be translated into the...
New quantum phenomenon helps to understand fundamental limits of graphene electronics
A team of researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham and Loughborough has discovered a quantum phenomenon that helps to understand the fundamental limits...
Like film editors and archaeologists, biochemists piece together genome history
Old-school Hollywood editors cut unwanted frames of film and patched in desired frames to make a movie. The human body does something similar—trillions of...
Physicists discover new quantum trick for graphene: magnetism
Sometimes the best discoveries happen when scientists least expect it. While trying to replicate another team's finding, Stanford physicists recently stumbled upon a novel...
Physicists count sound particles with quantum microphone
Stanford physicists have developed a "quantum microphone" so sensitive that it can measure individual particles of sound, called phonons.
The device, which is detailed July...
Thanks, Gaia: Astronomers spy Europa blocking distant star
On 31 March 2017, Jupiter's moon Europa passed in front of a background star—a rare event that was captured for the first time by...
Underwater glacial melting is occurring at higher rates than modeling predicts
Researchers have developed a new method to allow for the first direct measurement of the submarine melt rate of a tidewater glacier, and, in...
Elephant extinction will raise carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere
One of the last remaining megaherbivores, forest elephants shape their environment by serving as seed dispersers and forest bulldozers as they eat over a...
Einstein’s general relativity theory is questioned but still stands for now
More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic theory of general relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, said Andrea...
A tree stump that should be dead is still alive; here’s why
Within a shrouded New Zealand forest, a tree stump keeps itself alive by holding onto the roots of its neighboring trees, exchanging water and...
