Schrödinger's cat with 20 qubits

Dead or alive, left-spinning or right-spinning — in the quantum world particles such as the famous…

Farms turn to technology amid water warnings in Southwest US

A drone soared over a blazing hot cornfield in northeastern Colorado on a recent morning, snapping…

High arsenic levels found in children near former French mine

Worrying levels of arsenic have been detected in 38 children living near what was once the…

Using satellites to measure water scarcity

Today, more than 700 million people around the world drink water from unsafe or untreated sources,…

Indonesia ships back tonnes of Australian waste

Indonesia has shipped tonnes of Australian garbage out of the country, an official said Tuesday, as…

Exomars: Parachute test failure threat to launch date

A European-Russian project to land on Mars has been hit by another parachute failure, during a…

Paris launches Notre-Dame lead decontamination work

French workers on Tuesday began efforts to remove lead from the area around Notre-Dame cathedral which…

Restoring soil to address climate change

It’s time to take soil seriously. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with very…

How two water molecules dance together

An international research team has gained new insights into how water molecules interact. A laser with…

Why plastic bags are so hard to get rid of

In June, Canada joined a growing list of countries frustrated with the inability of market forces…