A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project.
The way that intense X-rays are currently produced is through a facility…
Category: 7. Science
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SIG Sauer officially launches the SIG516 G3 rifle
It had been previewed early this year as the “Mohawk”: SIG Sauer is now officially introducing the SIG516 G3. After some 15 years from the first launch – and after the manufacturer even considered retiring it for good – the latest version…
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Global electricity grid braces for worst solar storm in two decades
Critical national infrastructure (CNI) managers around the world are bracing for the worst solar storm in two decades, which could affect the electricity…
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Astronomers Discover New Planetary Nebula in Large Magellanic Cloud
During a spectroscopic study of stars in the massive young globular cluster NGC 1866 in a Milky Way satellite galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, astronomers discovered a faint planetary nebula. Named Ka LMC 1, the nebula resides near…
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Announcing New AGU Journal Editors-in-Chief Starting in 2026
Editors’ Vox is a blog from AGU’s Publications Department.
AGU Publications is pleased to announce five new Editors-in-Chief (EiCs) to join our journals program in 2026. Each of them were appointed to continue the great work…
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The ‘Lost Sisters’ of the Pleiades Fill the Entire Night Sky – The New York Times
- The ‘Lost Sisters’ of the Pleiades Fill the Entire Night Sky The New York Times
- The Pleiades is part of an enormous stellar complex birthed by the same star-forming event Carnegie Science
- ‘Seven Sisters’ Pleiades star cluster has thousands of…
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A universal speed limit for spreading of coherence
Understanding the dynamics of far-from-equilibrium many-body systems, including the emergence of long-range order in such systems, is an outstanding problem in physics, relevant from subnuclear to cosmological length scales21,22,23,24,25,26,27,
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NASA cancels space launch as strongest ‘cannibal storm’ in 20 years heads to Britain | UK News
NASA has postponed a space launch due to a “cannibal” solar storm that could also disrupt GPS, communication systems and power grids.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) upgraded its forecast to the maximum and said the ongoing storm…
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Light causes atomic layers to do the twist
A pulse of light sets the tempo in the material. Atoms in a crystalline sheet just a few atoms thick begin to move – not randomly, but in a coordinated rhythm, twisting and untwisting in sync like dancers following a beat.
This atomic…
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