Category: 7. Science

Leonardo Testi, Ugo Lebreuilly, Elenia Pacetti, Anaëlle Maury, Veronica Roccatagliata, Patrick Hennebelle, Ralf Klessen, and Sergio Molinari investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus

The origin of…

The year 2025 was a vintage one for astronomy. In January, we were hooked on reports of a building-sized asteroid – 2024 YR4 – on course to collide with Earth.

The risk was quickly downgraded from worrying to virtually non-existent, but it…

Galaxy NGC 1275 is the brightest member of the Perseus Cluster, an excellent target to try for during tonight’s dark window.

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• Researchers at the University of Waterloo demonstrated a method to securely duplicate encrypted quantum information, effectively bypassing the no-cloning theorem and enabling redundant quantum data storage.
• The…

The fire burning in north-east Victoria near Walwa was so fierce it generated its own weather this afternoon, including a substantial pyrocumulonimbus cloud with lightning and thunder.

Pyrocumulonimbus clouds (pyroCb), also known as are fire…

The current phase 1 clinical study will assess the safety, tolerability and dosage of IB409, a novel drug developed from a molecule found in Australian funnel-web spider venom by biotechnology company Infensa Bioscience, said a…

In a groundbreaking advancement for terahertz (THz) science and technology, researchers have unveiled a novel approach to free-electron laser (FEL) design that leverages electron microbunch trains to achieve superradiant emission. This…

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of…