NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun’s scorching surface

This image made available by NASA shows an artist’s rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It’s designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its…

Montenegro to extradite crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon to US

Do Kwon’s ‘stable coin’ cryptocurrency TerraUSD was not stable in the end, wiping out about $40 billion of investors’ money and shaking global crypto markets. Montenegro said Friday it will…

OpenAI outlines plans to becoming for-profit company

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain ChatGPT-maker OpenAI laid out plans Friday for a new corporate structure shifting away from control by a non-profit—an issue of contention for the artificial intelligence trailblazer.…

The next era of quantum thermal diodes

Study explores microbial methods for hydrogen production from waste

Numerical simulations show how the classical world might emerge from the many-worlds universes of quantum mechanics

Hugh Everett III developed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics in his 1957 PhD thesis at Princeton. He left physics after graduate school to work for the US military. Credit:…

Low-frequency photonic simulator breaks barriers

A year of extreme heat and growing climate danger

This year is set to be the hottest on record – but scientists say there’s still time to limit temperature rise and harm from climate impacts At the end of…

Cooking garlic and onions at high heat can form trans fats, study finds

Natural sulfur compounds promote formation of trans fatty acids (TFAs) during heating. Credit: Masaki Honda / Meijo University Trans-fatty acids (TFA) are a major cause of cardiovascular diseases. These harmful…

Hummingbird-inspired wings detect wind direction with 99% accuracy

Biomimetic flapping-wing aerial robots in hover can accurately detect wind direction using wing strain sensing. Credit: Institute of Science Tokyo Bio-inspired wind sensing using strain sensors on flexible wings could…