Category: 7. Science

Quantum computing currently faces significant challenges as it progresses from today’s limited devices towards genuinely useful, large-scale machines. Jens Eisert, from Freie Universität Berlin and associated institutions, and John…

During my recent podcast interview with Joe Rogan (accessible here), I had mentioned the unfortunate circumstances, under which NASA had not released for four weeks the images collected by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance…

Divers off Taiwan’s Ruifang District filmed a giant oarfish, Regalecus glesne, in shallow water. The clip surfaced in June 2023 and shows a long, ribbon-shaped fish moving slowly. It drew attention online within days as viewers marveled and…

NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto has forced astronomers to rewrite their textbooks — but that’s not all: New Horizons also forced Les Johnson to rewrite a novel.

The space scientist was tasked with taking notes that the famed…

For years, the “dueling dinosaurs” in a North Carolina museum were believed to be a Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex.

However, an article published on October 30 in the journal Nature has a different take: The researchers believe that the T. Rex…

Astronomers have captured the glowing “wings” of a vast nebula shaped like a bat, unfurling in deep space about 10,000 light-years…

Thirty previously unknown deep-sea species — including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge — have been confirmed in the depths of one of the most remote regions on the planet, thanks to new research from The Nippon Foundation–Nekton Ocean…

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• While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a study suggests we…