Science & Space

a hair thin gold crystal could lift quantum tech out of the deep freeze Almost every quantum material physicists have turned up so far arrives with a caveat roughly the size of a refrigerator: it performs, but only within a hair of absolute zero.

A hair-thin gold crystal could lift quantum tech out of the deep freeze

an ai wrote 300 virus genomes from scratch sixteen actually came alive Three hundred synthetic genomes were loaded into E. coli. Sixteen emerged as functioning viruses.

An AI Wrote 300 Virus Genomes From Scratch. Sixteen Actually Came Alive

astronomers finally resolve the suns miniature plasma whirlpools each barely 20 kilometers wide Twenty kilometers across. That was the threshold scientists needed to reach on the solar surface before they could spot what they were hunting for, and it happens to sit right at the ceiling of what the biggest solar telescope on the planet can manage.

Astronomers finally resolve the sun’s miniature plasma whirlpools, each barely 20 kilometers wide

nasas perseverance is about to out drive every rover that ever reached mars Roughly nine out of every ten meters NASA's Perseverance rover has covered on Mars were driven without a single instruction from Earth about where to go. For its predecessor Curiosity, that figure sits at around 10 percent.

NASA’s Perseverance is about to out-drive every rover that ever reached Mars

deepminds hurricane model outran the forecasters and even its builders cant explain why Five days out from landfall, an AI model put 80 percent confidence on Hurricane Melissa striking Jamaica as a Category 5. Not Haiti. Not a weakened system. Jamaica, at the very top of the scale.

DeepMind’s hurricane model outran the forecasters — and even its builders can’t explain why

nasa may reroute perseverances earthbound twin to the lunar south pole The rover NASA hopes to drive across the moon's south pole has already been assembled. It has been sitting here on Earth the entire time.

NASA may reroute Perseverance’s Earthbound twin to the lunar south pole

inouye telescope spots plasma whirlpools rolling along the suns magnetic edges Physicists have understood for roughly a hundred and fifty years what two fluids do when they slip past one another at unequal speeds. First the boundary between them buckles, then it curls, and finally it winds up into vortexes. Named the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and described back in the late 1860s, it explains the ripples wind draws on water and the rows of curved shapes it shears out of clouds.

Inouye telescope spots plasma whirlpools rolling along the Sun’s magnetic edges

ten months of polar night 12 crew members and a result that undercuts mars assumptions Spending more time around your teammates made matters worse rather than better.

Ten Months of Polar Night, 12 Crew Members, and a Result That Undercuts Mars Assumptions

roman space telescope was built to hunt dark energy it could also catch city killer asteroids The observatory NASA sends up from Kennedy Space Center at the close of August was engineered to pursue the two greatest mysteries in physics: the dark matter holding galaxies together and the dark energy driving the cosmos apart. It may also wind up warning us which rock is headed for a city.

Roman Space Telescope Was Built to Hunt Dark Energy — It Could Also Catch City-Killer Asteroids

starlink dishes as cell towers spacex sets its sights on t mobile att and verizon subscribers The idea most likely to rattle America's Big 3 wireless carriers has nothing to do with orbit. It starts with a cellular base station strapped to a Starlink dish sitting on someone's rooftop.

Starlink Dishes as Cell Towers: SpaceX Sets Its Sights on T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon Subscribers