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The first good comet of the year, Comet E3 ZTF is a fine object for northern hemisphere observers in January. The post Comet E3 ZTF Brightens as the First Good Comet of 2023 appeared first on Universe Today ....

James McKenzie casts his eye over up-and-coming UK firms working in the medical-physics sector The post Challenging questions, practical benefits and financial rewards: why medical physics has it all appeared first on Physics World ....

Russian Twitter campaigns during the 2016 presidential race primarily reached a small subset of users, most of whom were highly partisan Republicans, shows a new study by NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics. In addition, the international resea...

In the context of a disease, the transition from...

Wi-Fi devices acknowledge each other, even when not connected to the same network, and hackers can exploit this to drain their batteries...

China conducted its first two launches of 2023 over the weekend, sending three classified payloads into geosynchronous transfer orbit and five commercial satellites into sun-synchronous orbits. The post Pair of Chinese launches put classified and commerci...

Scientists are examining the corpse of an endangered whale that washed up on a Mississippi Gulf Coast beach....

The first orbital space launch from the UK is set to take off from Cornwall....

A modified jumbo jet will fly out of Cornwall on a mission to send nine satellites to orbit....

Caltech has launched a technology demonstrator that will evaluate space based solar power technologies The post Is Space Power a Good Idea? A new Spacecraft is Going to Find Out! appeared first on Universe Today ....

Mahdis Mousavi/Unsplash These days, we don't have to wait long until the next breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) impresses everyone with capabilities that previously belonged only in science fiction. In 2022, AI art generation tools such as ...

If and when we ever get an asteroid mining industry off the ground, one of the most important decisions to be made in the structure of any asteroid mining mission would be how to get the resources back to where all of our other infrastructure is somewhere...

Activists and police are facing off in Ltzerath, where diggers plan to expand a giant coal mine....

Virgin Orbit is set to perform the first orbital launch from the United Kingdom as soon as Jan. 9, a milestone officials hailed as the start of a new era for the country's space industry. The post Virgin Orbit ready for first U.K. launch appeared firs...

To support his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk sold billions of dollars' worth of Tesla stock. He also took out loans using Tesla stock as collateral. This had the predictable effect of causing a sharp decline in Tesla stock prices. Shareholders fil...

This Weekend's stories include What's on the Horizon for 2023 to The defining problem in the search for ET and much more. The post Microbial Time Capsules of Ancient Earth to 'Consciousness' in Robots No Longer Taboo? (The Planet Earth Rep...

Shutterstock Time and again, collaboration has proven to be a key driver of scientific and technological innovation. So it follows that some of the greatest advances have come from intellectual hubs set up for this very purpose. Today Silicon Valley is sy...

Karolina Grabowska/Pexels There's nothing wrong with wanting your home to smell nice and fresh and from candles to diffusers, there's no shortage of home scent products to help you achieve that. But having rampant fragrances in our indoor air can ...

For the first time this week, photos from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed that stellar bars were present in some galaxies as far back as 11 billion years ago. Stellar bars are a defining feature of about two-thirds of all spiral galaxies in...

SpaceX is aiming to launch Falcon Heavy's second national security mission for the U.S. Space Force on Jan. 12 from Kennedy Space Center. The post SpaceX gearing up for Falcon Heavy's second national security launch appeared first on SpaceNews ....

The world's glaciers are shrinking and disappearing faster than scientists thought, with two-thirds of them projected to melt out of existence by the end of the century at current climate change trends, according to a new study....

Angular-position basis allows usable entanglement to endure over longer distances The post Revived photon entanglement could enhance quantum communication and imaging appeared first on Physics World ....

Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF is already putting on a show as it makes its way through our solar system....

A novel that redefines personhood, greed and despair in biotech, arguing for a singular reality, and more books...

Grief can trigger a number of cognitive, behavioral and physiological changes....

SpaceX plans to launch 40 more internet satellites for the communications company OneWeb on Sunday night (Jan. 8), and you can watch the action live....

The mountaineer Hilaree Nelson inspired people to care about the climate crisis...

Authorities in an Indian Himalayan town have stopped construction activities and started moving hundreds of people to temporary shelters after a temple collapsed and cracks appeared in over 600 houses because of sinking of land, officials said Saturday....

The Chandra X-ray Observatory gives us our best view yet of especially active stars that are too powerful to form life-sustaining planets....

Living quarters of NASA's moon orbiting Gateway station will be so tiny that astronauts will not be able to stand upright inside....

Intuitive Machines is an aerospace company that plans to send a number of scientific experiments to the moon in the near future....

And do the rodents live in these wooden structures?...

NASA is looking for dangerous asteroids, Io is blasting lava into space, the solar wind could be creating water on the Moon, space power is finally getting a test. NASA Makes Asteroid Defence a Priority NASA has taken a significant step towards defending ...

SpaceX is planning a funding round to raise $750 million at a $137 billion valuation. The round is being organized by Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that is better known as the digital asset startup-supporting company "a16z." Andreess...

Even from beyond the grave, Arecibo is still contributing to new discoveries. Back in October, researchers released a "treasure trove of data" from what was then the world's most powerful radio telescope on the radar signatures of near-Earth a...

Budget friendly and high performing, the Renpho smart scale makes it easy to track body composition metrics....

Does human consciousness exist separate from matter, or is it embodied in the body a critical player in anything that has to do with mind? "We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think." answers neuroscientist...

A defunct NASA satellite, launched nearly four decades ago, is predicted to reenter late Jan. 8 with a very small risk to people on the ground. The post Defunct NASA satellite to reenter appeared first on SpaceNews ....

Better management of nitrogen-rich fertilizers through alternating crops, optimizing use and other measures can yield huge environmental and health benefits, but must boost food production at the same time, researchers warned Wednesday....

Space.com caught up with Dr. Z recently to discuss his favorite missions, the advice he'd give to his successors and the recent growth of the space community....

We often think of the Vikings as ultimate explorers, taking their culture with them to far-off lands. But we may not typically think of Viking age Scandinavia as a hub for migration from all over Europe....

Fish that have lost food due to mass coral bleaching are getting into more unnecessary fights, causing them to expend precious energy and potentially threatening their survival, new research said Wednesday....

Phonon-like quasiparticles could be used in thermal logic circuits The post Phasons boost thermal conductivity of incommensurate crystals appeared first on Physics World ....

Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF, just discovered in March 2022, will be making its closest approaches to both Earth and the sun in the coming weeks....

Science in meter and verse...

The first full moon of 2023, January's Wolf Moon, led to some gorgeous photographs around the world....

Synchronizing chimpanzees in Zambia, a plankton-trapping ecosystem in the Maldives, Neandertal teeth from Spain, and much more in this month's Quick Hits...

Modern humans have a youthful brain, and this "Peter Pan syndrome" is also seen in Neanderthals....

A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky....

A December 2022 Hubble Space Telescope photo shows a stunning view of NGC 376, an open cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud....