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Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba). Credit: Nicole Hellessey Imagine looking at the world through the stalked compound eyes of krill in the Southern Ocean. All of a sudden, a penguin appears like a voracious giant, streamlined like a torpedo, chasing and…
Kimble, H. J. The quantum internet. Nature 453, 1023–1030 (2008). Article ADS CAS PubMed MATH Google Scholar Wehner, S., Elkouss, D. & Hanson, R. Quantum internet: a vision for the road ahead. Science 362, eaam9288 (2018). Article ADS MathSciNet PubMed …
A collection of sci-fi movie memorabilia is heading to auction and includes one of the most iconic film aliens of all time. As part of the upcoming series, “There Are Such Things: 20th Century Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy on…
Last spring, a team of nearly 1,000 cosmologists announced that dark energy — the enigmatic agent propelling the universe to swell in size at an ever-increasing rate — might be slackening. The bombshell result, based on the team’s observations of…
Raman-MCR spectroscopy on oil droplets in water. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08702-y The behavior of water at hydrophobic interfaces has perplexed scientists for over a century, spanning chemistry, biology, materials science, geology, and engineering. Recent discoveries—such as the anomalous chemistry…
Enthusiasm for lower carbon emissions is fuelling record investment in energy technologies. In 2024, global energy investment exceeded US$3 trillion for the first time, two-thirds of which went towards clean-energy technologies and infrastructure. This trend, detailed in the World Energy…
Anyone who has tried to keep porch plants or a home garden alive through seasonal changes knows it’s a task easier said than done. Abrupt temperature changes—like cold snaps—and prolonged periods of drought can stress plants, disrupting their normal biochemistry.…
NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore stand together for a photo enroute to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for their liftoff on a Boeing Starliner capsule to…
Drosophila strains and culture Flies were reared on media of cornmeal (62.5 g l−1), inactive yeast powder (25 g l−1), agar (6.75 g l−1), molasses (37.5 ml l−1), propionic acid (4.2 ml l−1), tegosept (1.4 g l−1) and ethanol (7 ml l−1) on a 12 h light:12 h dark cycle at 25 °C. All electrophysiological and lipidomic…
It turns out Tesla’s camera-vision-only approach to self-driving is no match for a Wile E. Coyote-style fake wall. Earlier this week, former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober posted a video where he tried to see if he could trick…
