Key Takeaways
- John Clarke, a former scientist at Berkeley Lab, shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering quantum tunneling in an electric chip.
- This research, conducted at Berkeley Lab in the 1980s by Clarke and co-laureates…


Development continues on NASA’s Power and Propulsion Element, a solar electric propulsion spacecraft designed to provide power for Gateway in lunar orbit.
Able to generate 60 kilowatts of power, the element was successfully powered on earlier…

A small space telescope roughly the size of a family cereal box — having cleared its pre-shipment review by NASA last spring — is now at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, where it will be readied for launch on a SpaceX…
CAPE TOWN, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — Some 60,000-year-old poison arrows have been discovered inside a rock shelter in South Africa, identified as the world’s oldest known poison weapons.
The study, conducted by researchers from South Africa and…

The northern lights could illuminate skies across the northern U.S. tonight (Jan. 8-9) according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC).
An incoming stream of fast solar wind from…

Milner Library is pleased to announce a new agreement with Elsevier that expands open access publishing support for Illinois State University authors. This is the 13th open access agreement Milner Library has entered…

PHOENIX — A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble that its backers say can be built at a fraction of the cost and on a…

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) honored four scientists affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz, for outstanding contributions to the field. At the 247th AAS meeting, the society named Science Division Dean Bryan…
