Category: Science & Engineering

Matter and antimatter should have completely wiped each other out eons ago, leaving the Universe a very empty place. Obviously that didn’t happen. Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may have uncovered new clues as to how we avoided this apocalypse, hinting at a surprising difference in the decays of particles called baryons and […]

Around 230 million years ago, at least 19 alligator-size amphibians expired together on an ancient floodplain in what is now Wyoming. The animals’ fossilized remains, uncovered across four excavations between 2014 and 2019, have been relatively undisturbed since then and feature preserved delicate small bones and parts of the creatures’ overall skeletal structure. The well-preserved […]

Technically, this isn’t the first footage shown by Paramount+ for the third season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” That label goes to a fun San Diego Comic-Con scene of Pike and crew physically transforming into Vulcans that we shared with you back in July of last year. But this latest sneak peek at the […]

A miso test on the International Space Station shows fermenting food is not only possible in space, it adds nuttier notes to the Japanese condiment. Source link

Just when you thought you could relax about putative ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4, back it comes, with a vengeance. Don’t worry – it’s still not a danger to Earth for the time being. When we last checked in, odds of a collision between 2024 YR4 and Earth were at just 0.001 percent, far too […]

You know how the James Webb Space Telescope is said to be revolutionizing astronomy because it can study wavelengths hidden to human eyes? Well, those wavelengths lie in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum — and on April 1, NASA announced its brand new infrared space telescope, SPHEREx, has officially opened its eyes to […]

Charge-parity violation is thought to explain why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe. Scientists just spotted it in a new place. Source link

An exotic state of matter has been found lurking within a previous exotic state which had discovered in a magnetic compound last decade. In 2016, physicists Weiguo Yin, Christopher Roth, and Alexei Tsvelik of Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US identified what they referred to as a “half-fire, half-ice” phase of spin-states in Sr3Leather6a mix […]

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just completed the first of two planned observations of the infamous “city-killer” asteroid 2024 YR4, which will make a perilously close approach to Earth and the moon in December 2032. Making use of emergency telescope time awarded to an international team of astronomers in February, JWST’s first […]

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has closed its investigation into Flight 7 of SpaceX’s huge Starship vehicle, which ended with a dramatic explosion over the Atlantic Ocean. Flight 7 sent Starship aloft from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas on Jan. 16. Things went well at first; Starship’s first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, […]