Exploring the potential of solar cars

Radiation sensor on top of a vehicle. Credit: Miguel Centeno Brito. A new study, modeling the potential of solar-powered vehicles in the urban context in 100 cities across the world,…

Can cloud-based quantum computing really offer a quantum advantage?

The input to the service is a user-designed quantum circuit. The service begins with qubit allocation, which relates physical qubits to a designed circuit. An implementation of the circuit is…

One in three women have a baby in their first IVF cycle: Report

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The annual IVF report from UNSW reveals the latest numbers and trends in assisted reproductive technology. One in three women successfully have a baby in their…

Investigating shadow profiles: The data of others

Analysis of information linkage in a social network. Credit: David Garcia Shadow profiles in social networks contain information about people who are not members. At the moment, shadow profiles are…

As space exploration and colonization expand, off-Earth resources will create a booming market

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The drive to explore deeper into space and establish colonies on other planets has intensified over the last decade, and with it the importance of space…

How Radio Astronomy Sees Magnetic Fields

Newswise — Many objects in the Universe have magnetic fields. Planets such as Earth and Jupiter, the Sun and other stars, even galaxies billions of light years away. But these…

Exploring the relationship between thermalization dynamics and quantum criticality in lattice gauge theories

These brainless jellyfish use their eyes and bundles of nerves to learn

For Caribbean box jellyfish, learning is literally a no-brainer. In a new experiment, these animals learned to spot and avoid obstacles despite having no central brain, researchers report September 22…

Astronomers discover newborn galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope

A look through time with the James Webb Space Telescope. The big galaxy in the foreground is named LEDA 2046648, and is seen just over a billion years back in…

At UN climate summit big polluters’ absence speaks volumes

While “ambitious” countries made few new announcements, the US, China, India and the UK had not offered enough to even sit in the room As United Nations chief Antonio Guterres…