The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov approaches the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above Ontario, Canada, near James…
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These are the 5 most popular Science News stories of 2024
Science News drew millions of visitors to our website this year. Here’s a look back at the most-read and most-watched online news stories of 2024. Top news stories 5. Psilocybin…
Quantum walk computing unlocks new potential in quantum science and technology
Quantum walk applications are divided into 4 main categories: quantum computing, quantum simulation, quantum information processing, and graph-theoretic applications. Credit: Xiaogang Qiang, Shixin Ma and Haijing Song Quantum walks are…
Team presents first demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy internet cables
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Northwestern University engineers are the first to successfully demonstrate quantum teleportation over a fiberoptic cable already carrying internet traffic. The discovery introduces the new possibility of…
survivability of herbs in the winter – Functional Ecologists
In this blog post Frederick Lubbe, postdoc at Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, presents his work ‘New opportunities for grassland species in warming temperate winters’. He…
After Cyclone Chido, France accused of neglecting climate threat to “fragile” Mayotte
Locals and experts say France should have done more to protect residents of its poor island territory from extreme weather In the aftermath of Cyclone Chido, which battered the French…
Amazon, OSHA reach settlement over warehouse safety citations
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Federal safety regulators have dropped nine of 10 citations accusing Amazon of putting warehouse workers at a high risk of injury, part of a settlement agreement…
The rise in children’s melatonin use and what experts want you to know
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Packed holiday schedules, no school, disrupted bedtime routines—a parent’s worst nightmare. And if you are one of the many turning to melatonin to help their little…
Viewpoint: 15 explanations for why activists lie and try to scare people about ‘killer’ chemicals, genetically engineered crops and nuclear energy
We always hear NGOs saying that we cannot trust industry, that we have to exclude industry evidence or that industry lobbyists are spreading deception and falsehood. We are constantly reminded…
