This engineer’s light-based computers take inspiration from the brain
Bhavin Shastri still gets excited when he sees a laser pointer, and he’s been fascinated by them since he was…
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Why this physicist is bringing thermodynamics to the quantum age
Picture Victorian London, but its skies are filled with airships. Steam-powered robots crowd the streets, mingling with people in top…
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Silk Road cities reached surprising heights in Central Asia’s mountains
Two high-altitude, medieval cities built by mobile herders along Silk Road trade routes in Central Asia have been hiding in…
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Thunderstorms churn up a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays
Above the cloud tops, thunderstorms throb with a complex, frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view from a retrofitted…
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Male mosquitoes sometimes suck, too
Male mosquitoes may be nearly as bloodthirsty as females under certain conditions, new research suggests. That upends the notion that…
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Saturn’s first Trojan asteroid has finally been discovered
Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called Trojan…
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The discovery of tools key to machine learning wins the 2024 physics Nobel
As artificial intelligence explodes in popularity, two of its pioneers have nabbed the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics. The prize…
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There’s a new term for attempting to own the wind
Wind ownership is up for grabs. As an unpaid intern at an energy company in England, Emilia Groupp spent two…
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New electrical stitches use muscle movement to speed up healing
Stitches are getting a shocking upgrade. In an experiment in rats, a new strong, flexible thread hastened wound healing by…
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The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites have been found
Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter,…
