Chang’e-6 samples suggest 4.25-billion-year-old impact formed moon’s South Pole–Aitken basin

Schematic illustrating that Chang’e-6 norites document the 4.25 Ga lunar South Pole-Aitken impact event. Credit: Su Bin Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon’s South Pole–Aitken…

New machine learning framework enhances precision, efficiency in metal 3D printing

Transforming cameras into real-time environmental monitors

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