Amazon fires are causing glaciers in the Andes to melt even faster

If you have turned on a TV or read the news during the past few months,…

NA61/SHINE gives neutrino experiments a helping hand

Neutrinos are the lightest of all the known particles that have mass. Yet their behavior as…

New algorithms to determine eigenstates and thermal states on quantum computers

Determining the quantum mechanical behavior of many interacting particles is essential to solving important problems in…

Black Friday in Britain: where it all went wrong

This year has been challenging for retailers, to put it mildly. According to the British Retail…

Indian authorities may have exaggerated claims of rising tiger numbers

The Indian government claims that the national tiger population has more than doubled since 2006, but…

PIA23570: Maja Valles Tributary

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Click here…

Compound controls biological clock with light

Researchers at Japan’s Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of Nagoya University, the Netherlands’ University of Groningen,…

The plot thickens for a hypothetical X17 particle

Fresh evidence of an unknown particle that could carry a fifth force of nature gives the…

Are 'dog years' for real? An explanation of calculating canine age

If your dog has been alive and kicking its paws about for a decade, the widely…

Ultraluminous X-ray source UGC 6456 ULX investigated in detail

Russian astronomers have performed a detailed study of one of the ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) in…