A robot swarm is on a mission to map Greenland’s perilous ice sheets

Back to Article List Over billions of years, a planet will have encountered all the small bodies in its vicinity enough times to clear its orbit of them. Pluto famously was demoted to dwarf planet because, with its location in the Kuiper Belt, it has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit — one of…

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found a much simpler way to produce unusual light structures known as optical skyrmions by reviving a classic optics experiment that dates back more than 200 years. Optical skyrmions are tiny, stable swirling patterns formed within the properties of light. Their structure has often been compared…

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Yellow dots mark the locations of 29 quasars newly discovered by ESA’s Euclid space telescope, set against its survey footprint (blue) and an all-sky map from ESA’s Planck mission. The two red dots are the record-breakers — EUCL J172902.75+641018.1 and EUCL J125308.55+705432.3 — the oldest quasars ever identified. Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA/Planck Collaboration/A. Mellinger; Acknowledgment: Jean-Charles…

A typhoon that floods your town is already a stressful and frightening experience. But for residents of southern China, that experience is becoming much worse, as recent floodwaters created an even more unusual hazard — hundreds of venomous snakes washed away from commercial breeding farms. As reported in The Guardian, after days of torrential rain…

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