This beautiful picture of the Lagoon Nebula i captured

Since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the idea in 1960, the hypothetical “Dyson sphere” has become one of the most intriguing concepts in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Rather than a single solid shell, scientists now envision a Dyson “swarm” made up of countless orbiting structures that capture nearly all of a star’s energy. While…

To put his idea to the test, Zhandry needed a candidate for a problem that has a quantum proof but no classical proof. The problem that he settled on, called the spectral forrelation problem, involves comparing two distinct ways of measuring a quantum state. Zhandry and his colleagues liken the possible outcomes of these two…

NCSE members had the opportunity to hear from Rebecca Lindsey, managing director of Climate.us — a private, nonprofit successor to the shuttered Climate.gov. Lindsey discussed the importance of preserving public access to trusted climate science data and shared insights into the development of Climate.us. She was interviewed by NCSE Executive Director Amanda L. Townley, who…

Some researchers who use the markup language LaTeX for typesetting are unwittingly making private information public.Credit: Tom Houghton/Nature Nearly all of the nearly three million papers available on the arXiv preprint server contain details the authors never meant to share, a new study finds. The study, uploaded to arXiv in April and presented at theInstitute…

Space is incomprehensibly vast. So huge that the human mind struggles to even conceptualize it. The observable universe spans roughly 93 billion light-years. Even our own humble galaxy, the Milky Way — a few tiny stitches of the universal canvas — stretches across 100,000 light-years and contains hundreds of billions of stars. It’s no wonder,…

Though it has weakened to a severe tropical storm, it still presents a risk because of the huge volume of moisture within its rain bands. The storm is expected to gradually diminish in its intensity as it moves north-west. On Sunday morning, the centre of the typhoon reached Hangzhou City in Zhejiang province, Chinese state…