Ole Bielfeldt of Germany captured a microscopic view of an inkjet printer depositing ink onto paper. A 25-year-old German experimental photographer has won the 2026 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition with a striking image of droplets of ink being deposited on paper by an inkjet printer. Ole Bielfeldt beat…
Best case is now an overshoot to 1.8º C, accompanied by massive carbon removal. In 2015, all but two countries agreed to make an effort to keep global temperatures from reaching 1.5° C above pre-industrial readings. Since then, most of the world has largely treated what they signed on…
A demo of error-corrected qubits shows big reductions in errors as they grow. Running complicated algorithms on quantum computing hardware is going to require the use of logical qubits, where collections of hardware qubits are linked together in ways that allow errors to be detected and corrected. In general,…
The climax for MMX will come in 2029, when the spacecraft will attempt up to two landings on Phobos. Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and retrieve samples for return to Earth, a daring international project…
“Kosmos 2612 closed from hundreds of kilometers away to extreme proximity to ICEYE-X36.” A Russian military satellite maneuvered in “extreme proximity” of a commercial Earth-imaging satellite in recent days in the first known example an unsanctioned rendezvous in low-Earth orbit, according to the orbital intelligence company LeoLabs. The Russian…
One way to make batteries cleaner is to make fewer of them. The first order of business for the energy transition is electrifying applications like vehicles and heating and making sure that the electricity that powers them is made using renewables. But once the dominant slices of the emissions…
Can undersea geothermal power help Pacific Rim nations cut down on oil imports? The world’s first demonstration of a subsea geothermal power plant has taken place near an active underwater volcano almost a mile below the ocean surface. It generated less than 10 seconds of net-positive electricity but showed…
All the evidence points to the debris being part of a Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket. About a month ago, a Chinese rocket took off from a remote spaceport in the Gobi Desert, released 10 satellites into orbit, then reignited its engine and put itself on a trajectory to rain down…
Research suggests listening more while talking less. Killing aimless meetings can help, too. Close to 1 billion meetings take place each day around the world. CEOs spend nearly three-quarters of their workdays in meetings. Planning for and spearheading meetings eats up the lion’s share of managers’ time. In much…
Researchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend. The Liberty Bell, with its famous crack, hasn’t been rung in 180 years, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from pondering what the bell might have sounded like when tolling. In honor of the nation’s…
