Greenpeace’s damages ruling a ‘wake-up call’ to climate movement

Organisations and campaigners across the climate justice movement are joining forces to counter the wider chilling effect of a major legal blow that could bankrupt one of its largest players.  …

An experimental test of the nonlocal energy alteration between two quantum memories

Conceptual diagram: (2+1) dimensional relativistic Bohmian trajectory. Credit: Dou et al. Quantum technologies operate by leveraging various quantum mechanical effects, including entanglement. Entanglement occurs when two or more particles share…

AI method speeds up data retrieval by 3,200 times

A simulated universe works better when dark energy changes over time

Supercomputer simulations tested the Standard Cosmological Model against a Dynamical Dark Energy Model to see which one better matched new DESI data. Credit: ALCF Visualization and Data Analytics Team and…

Plastic ‘fossils’ help scientists reconstruct the history of bird nests

One man’s trash is a common coot’s treasure, at least when it comes to plastic. In Amsterdam, the birds have been constructing nests out of plastic food wrappers, masks and…

Wireless terahertz cryogenic interconnect minimizes heat-to-information transfer in quantum processors

Credit: Wang et al. Quantum computers, devices that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers in some complex optimization and computational tasks. However, before these systems can…

Photon-shuttling interconnection device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processors

What happened to all the water on Mars? Here’s why the debate continues

Scientists are confident Mars was once abundant with water, as seen in massive flood-carved channels, ancient river valleys, and minerals that form only in liquid water. But how the Red…

Chinese electric car maker BYD aims for Europe boost

BYD plans to launch its small format Seagull, to be renamed the Dolphin Surf in Europe around the middle of the year. Chinese carmaker BYD on Thursday vowed to conquer…

Natural fats in human skin could explain why some babies develop eczema

Graphical abstract. Credit: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2024.10.041 An Australian-first study has found that certain natural fats which exist in the skin of babies, called lipids,…