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A Glass Cone That Turns Solar Chaos into Quantum Order Researchers led by Cheng Li and Robert Boyd at the University of Ottawa focused raw sunlight through a custom optical assembly to split individual solar photons into entangled pairs. The team…...
Genomic AI Writes Living DNA Blueprints A research team led by Dr. Brian Hie at Stanford University and the Arc Institute turned generative artificial intelligence toward biological code, creating functional viruses never before seen in nature…...
Data Access Opens for NASA’s Deep Space Scout Scientific telemetry collected through 30 April 2026 from seven payload instruments is now accessible via the Space Physics Data Facility and Princeton University. Floating roughly one million miles from…...
A Fifty-Year Power Decay in Interstellar Space Cruising far beyond the edge of our solar system, Voyager 2 operates in a cold realm where sunlight is virtually useless for generating electricity. The spacecraft relies on a radioisotope…...
Microscopic Threads Weave Inside Cooling Crystal An international team of researchers from Sapienza University of Rome, Nankai University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has observed a three-dimensional woven structure forming naturally…...
A Hidden Hazard in Agricultural Fields For decades, farmers and home gardeners have relied on glyphosate to manage unwanted weeds, operating under the assumption that the chemical poses no direct threat to insect pollinators. Because insects do not…...
A Rare Mesozoic Find in São Paulo In the red sandstone deposits of the Adamantina Formation in São Paulo, Brazil, paleontologists unearthed the remarkably intact skeleton of an ancient serpent dubbed Tametara mirim . Datable to roughly 80 million…...
An Orbital Burst Triggers a Global Telescope Sprint Deep in space, roughly 500 million light-years away, a giant star met its sudden end in a fiery stellar explosion. In March 2026, the Einstein Probe space telescope detected a faint, brief burst of…...
A 74-mile coin read from afar Observing the surface of the Sun requires peeling back a wall of blinding light and thermal turbulence. To capture features barely 20 kilometers across from Earth, researchers paired the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope…...
An Underground Reservoir Equivalent to 2.4 Billion Swimming Pools Geophysicists from the Université de Genève, alongside Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, mapped a subterranean magma body holding roughly 6,000 cubic…...
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