Jupiter-bound spacecraft turns gaze on solar system trespasser The Times NASA telescope spots the building blocks for life spewing out of comet 3I/ATLAS Live Science Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is spraying water across the solar system ScienceDaily NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Spots 3I/ATLAS’s Bright Envelope Universe Today NASA space telescope sees interstellar visitor comet 3I/ATLAS flare up while exiting the solar
Many funding proposals submitted to the US National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation are written with the assistance of artificial-intelligence programs.Credit: Getty Scientists are increasingly turning to artificial-intelligence systems for help drafting the grant proposals that fund their careers, but preliminary data1 indicate that these tools might be pulling the focus of research
Researchers have uncovered an intriguing set of never-before-seen features in the skull of Archaeopteryx, an iconic dinosaur that is considered a key transitional fossil in the evolution of birds, a new study reports. The features — which are absent in nonflying dinosaurs but are widespread in living birds — may have enabled Archaeopteryx to acquire,
Thus the wave function can’t tell us what the quantum system is like before we measure it. By contrast, in macroscale, classical, Newtonian physics, things have well-defined properties and positions, even when no one is looking. The classical and quantum worlds seem divided by what Heisenberg in the late 1920s called a “cut.” For him
Scientists have used the loudest gravitational-wave signal ever recorded to put Albert Einstein’s more than 100-year-old theory of gravity to its toughest test yet — and once again, it passed. The signal, called GW250114, came from the merger of two black holes — each about 30 times the mass of the sun — about 1.3
A rare great white shark was incidentally caught by local fishermen off the coast of Spain, revealing that the species has maintained a continued presence in the waters. Fishermen off the coast of the eastern peninsula in the Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone caught the juvenile great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). It measured 210cm and weighed
Experimental set-up Extended Data Fig. 2 shows the experimental set-up of DISH. A coherent 405-nm light beam emitted from the continuous-wave diode laser CNI MDL-HD-405 with a linewidth of 1.5 nm is modulated by a DMD equipped with a total internal reflection prism. The DMD (TI DLP9500) driven by ViALUX V-9501 features a pixel size of 10.8 μm,
A new peer reviewed study is challenging one of the most widely shared claims about Yellowstone’s wolves. In a formal comment published in Global Ecology and Conservation, scientists from Utah State University and Colorado State University argue that a 2025 paper by Ripple et al. overstated how much wolf recovery reshaped Yellowstone National Park’s ecosystem.
Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission launched at 5:15 a.m. EST Friday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled a Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway,
Last year, physicists created a time crystal—atomic arrangements repeating motion patterns—visible to the naked eye. But the latest research on this quantum eccentricity might represent more than a few steps forward. This time crystal, described in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, is big enough to be held in your hand, and it levitates. Discovered