This time around, the group recruited 10 GWL dogs and 21 non-GWL dogs, all border collies, since this the most […]
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Microsoft’s new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium. Right now, Silica hardware isn’t quite ready for commercialization. Credit: Microsoft […]
X-rays reveal kingfisher feather structure in unprecedented detail
A spongy nanostructure The Northwestern team started looking at kingfisher feathers in tian-tsui objects via postdoc Madeline Meier, who has […]
There’s a lot of big talk about sovereign launch—who is doing something about it?
As alliances fray, these are the nations investing in sovereign access to space. PLD Space shows off a model of […]
Scientists hunting mammoth fossils found whales 400 km inland
Sometimes, new data raises more questions than it answers. Today, the North Pacific right whale is severely endangered, meaning that […]
A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later
Sunlight can cause a molecule to change structure, and then release heat later. The system works a bit like existing […]
Ancient Mars was warm and wet, not cold and icy
This is important because it means these rocks were less likely to have been altered in a hydrothermal environment, where […]
“It ain’t no unicorn”: These researchers have interviewed 130 Bigfoot hunters
It was the image that launched a cultural icon. In 1967, in the Northern California woods, a 7-foot-tall, ape-like creature […]
NASA has a new problem to fix before the next Artemis II countdown test
John Honeycutt, chair of NASA’s Artemis II mission management team, said the decision to relax the safety limit between Artemis […]
Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt
Are you out there, Planet X? Next-generation telescopes are mapping this outer frontier. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook Out beyond the orbit […]