Sometimes the discovery of new physics demands insane levels of energy. Big machines. Fancy equipment. Countless hours of sifting through reams of data. And then sometimes the right combination of m… [+3707 chars]
The connecting of two "time crystals" in a superfluid of helium-3 barely one-ten-thousandth of a degree above absolute zero could be a huge step toward a new kind of quantum computer. Time crystals … [+5050 chars]
ByEva Frederick, MIT Whitehead InstituteJune 11, 2022 Data for a new gene-function map are available for other scientists to use. Its a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in… [+11672 chars]
NASAs James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been hit by a micrometeoroid, which has damaged one of ... [+] the 18 beryllium-gold segments that makes up its main 6.5-meter mirror. getty NASAs James… [+3021 chars]
In Jordan Peeles incredible 2019 horror film Us, an army of human doppelgängers called The Tethered arise to take the place of the existing human population. It hits at some of our core fears, that w… [+3610 chars]
Enlarge/ The genetic code. Note that a lot of the amino acids (the outer layer, in grey) are encoded by several sets of three-base codes that share the first two letters. 2 with 2 posters participat… [+4251 chars]
The full moon of June will shine bright next week, but if bad weather clouds your view, don't fret. You'll be able to see the Full Strawberry Moon in a live webcast for free. The Virtual Telescope … [+2974 chars]
