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Wayward SpaceX rocket slams into moon, reignites debate over space debris management amid lunar exploration boom
After a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage was believed to have struck the moon on Wednesday after drifting in space for nearly a year, US media AP reported Thursday, citing scientists, this unexpected lunar impact has drawn attention to both scientific opportuniti…
Meet the photonics scaleups building tomorrow's critical technologies
From faster internet and more secure satellite communications to next-generation semiconductors, quantum technologies and energy-generating greenhouses, photonics is becoming one of Europe's most strategically important deep tech sectors. Europe is home to a…
Titan is moving away from Saturn about 11 centimetres every year — roughly 100 times faster than scientists once believed — suggesting the moon may have begun its life much closer to the planet
The Saturnian moon's rapid retreat from its planet rewrites theories about how it formed and where it has spent its 4.5-billion-year history. The post Titan is moving away from Saturn about 11 centimetres every year — roughly 100 times faster than scientists …
There’s a dam in China holding back so much water that NASA scientists calculated it very slightly changed how fast the entire planet spins — lengthening every day on Earth by a fraction of a microsecond, a change too small to feel and too real to deny
A Chinese megadam holds back so much water that it measurably slows Earth's rotation, adding imperceptible fractions of a second to every day on the planet. The post There’s a dam in China holding back so much water that NASA scientists calculated it very sli…
Swirling, vortex-like patterns observed on Sun's surface
Astronomers have obtained the highest-resolution images to date of the Sun's visible surface, observing swirling, vortex-like patterns in superheated solar gases.
Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited Class B Subordinate Voting Shares Q2 Earnings Call Highlights
Key Points - Q2 revenue rose year over year to CAD 1.5 million from CAD 1.1 million, though it declined sequentially from CAD 2.8 million. DARPA Stage B work was the primary revenue driver, while cash totaled CAD 312.8 million after CAD 67.2 million was raise…
Save $1,800 USD on the SmallHD ULTRA 10 4K Portable Production Monitor
The SmallHD ULTRA 10 4K Portable Production Monitor is on sale for $2,899 USD, which is a discount of $1,800 USD. The Ultra 10 features an edge-lit QD-LED panel stack that diffuses and focuses the light through a quantum-dot film, ensuring high brightness, ex…
UK expands Global Talent visa to over 100 firms
The UK Global Talent visa scheme now includes over 100 research-intensive businesses, making it easier for top scientists and engineers to work in the UK. Read More: https://punchng.com/uk-expands-global-talent-visa-to-over-100-firms/
These are the best photos of the sun that scientists have ever taken
Researchers saw strange feathery patterns rippling across the surface.
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Ukrainian Astronomers Report Observing Unidentified Objects Near Moon
Scientists at Ukraine’s Main Astronomical Observatory reported observing more than 20 unidentified objects moving near and across the moon during observation periods in 2025, according to a study that has not been peer-reviewed. The team said the objects could indicate a technologically advanced nonhuman civilization. Observations occurred on Sept. 7, 2025, and Aug. 16, 2025, […]
Will U.S. cities face a knock-on fiscal crisis from the feds?
Federal money flows to cities in three flavors: direct transfers, indirect transfers, and what we call fiscal dark matter. Direct transfers are exactly what they sound like — money sent directly from the federal government to various localities. These include…
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #32 2026
Open access notables ‘Towards electric vehicle misinformation communities: Shared narratives, networked validation, and reassurance among Australian consumers, McEwen et al., Energy Research & Social Science Electric vehicles (EVs) provide a pathway to sust…
Nuvoton sees PC pressure ease as AI, cloud demand and quantum-security projects advance
Nuvoton Technology is navigating weaker PC-related demand as memory shortages reshape global hardware orders, while cloud, AI, and security products gain momentum. The company said its shift toward server controllers, quantum-safe microcontrollers, and XR components could help offset near-term pressure and support stronger growth from 2027.
Video: The Sun as we’ve never seen it before, the most detailed images ever captured
New observations reveal striking plasma vortices swirling across the solar surface, offering scientists valuable insight into the mechanisms driving space weather and the powerful solar flares capable of disrupting satellites, GPS systems, and power grids The…
Europa may literally glow green, blue or white on its night side because Jupiter’s radiation energises salts frozen into its surface, and the colour of that glow could offer a new clue to what its hidden ocean is made of
A laboratory experiment found that Europa-like salty ice emits different visible glows under high-energy electrons, offering a possible new way to map the moon's surface chemistry in darkness. The post Europa may literally glow green, blue or white on its nig…
Scientists up in arms about cuts to UK physics and astronomy
Funding is being terminated for projects including a future CERN experiment and the iconic Lovell Telescope.
Levitating sensor for magnetic fields could detect ultrafaint brain activity
The device’s simple design could rival much more complex alternatives in biophysics research — and could even be used to search for dark matter.
A Mystery Object in the Milky Way Is Blasting Out Particles 100 Times More Powerful Than the LHC
The cosmic accelerator can push protons beyond one quadrillion electric volts.
Quantum computers promise mathematical superpowers
But like all superpowers, they will have their limits
IonQ closes $1.8bn SkyWater acquisition after US FTC clearance
Quantum computing firm IonQ has completed the previously announced acquisition of US-based semiconductor foundry SkyWater Technology in a transaction valued at about $1.8bn. The deal follows regulatory clearance, including early termination of the US Federal …
Turning molecules into reliable electronic devices
MIT researchers developed a scalable fabrication platform for damage-free integration of molecular materials into nanoscale functional electronic devices, which could enable applications in emerging computing, sensing, and quantum technologies.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #700
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.” — George Orwell The post Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #700 appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
Four unpatched bugs, a 5-year quantum clock, and a miner standoff are pushing Bitcoin to a critical crossroad
Bitcoin entered BIP-110's final ordinary 2,016-block window on July 25 with miner support at 0.89%. The proposal requires 1,109 blocks, or 55%, for ordinary lock-in, and its mandatory version-bit phase can begin in August if support stays below that threshold…
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Dark Matter May Be Transforming Into Weird Particles That Fill The Universe With Gravity
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Sinéad O'Sullivan: To everyone who wants us Ireland to go nuclear - have you heard of the Children’s Hospital?
The debate is little more than a nuclear distracter – absorbing all our energy instead of generating any
Show HN: Kwayk – Reimplementing Quake in Qt Quick3D with Jolt Physics
Article URL: https://github.com/glazunov999/Kwayk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151307 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Giant waves are sweeping Mars’ atmosphere into space
The solar wind may be stripping away Mars’ atmosphere by creating giant rolling waves along its outer edge. Data from MAVEN and Tianwen-1 show that these waves form plasma clouds that carry atmospheric particles into space. The process is concentrated on one side of Mars and may have played a major role in drying out the once potentially habitable planet.
In about thirty years we have gone from knowing of no planets beyond the Sun to confirming more than 6,000, and the biggest surprise is that the most common type of planet in the galaxy is one our own solar system does not contain
The galaxy is ruled by a type of world we've never seen up close—and it's forcing us to rethink how planetary systems form. The post In about thirty years we have gone from knowing of no planets beyond the Sun to confirming more than 6,000, and the biggest su…
IonQ Is Worth $13 Billion and Sits 58% Below Its High. Here's What Has to Go Right
IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) closed Thursday at $35.77, up almost 12% in a single session as quantum computing stocks rallied. Even after that jump, shares of the quantum computing specialist sit about 58% below their 52-week high of $84.64. And yet the company still ca…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching on a Falcon Heavy on 30 August 2026, carries a mirror the size of Hubble’s but sees a patch of sky about a hundred times wider, built mainly to map dark energy and hunt for planets
A Hubble-sized mirror with a hundred times wider view will hunt for the universe's darkest secrets and worlds beyond our solar system. The post NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching on a Falcon Heavy on 30 August 2026, carries a mirror the size …
Probing inter-areal computations with a two-photon holographic mesoscope
The authors developed a new microscope that can measure and manipulate brain activity across multiple brain regions simultaneously with high precision, enabling scientists to study how spatially distributed brain circuits communicate and process information.
Altermagnetic photonic crystals
Altermagnetism has been experimentally demonstrated in fermionic systems, but not yet in photonic systems. Now it is observed in a magnetophotonic crystal.
Laser–plasma amplification of an ultrabroadband laser pulse to 0.3 TW
The researchers demonstrate amplification of an ultrabroadband pulse in a laser–plasma Raman amplifier, achieving efficiencies of up to 8.7%, final powers of up to 0.3 TW, and final pulse durations of 64 fs.
Publisher Correction: Reply to: Conductance measurements cannot distinguish crossed Andreev reflection from elastic co-tunnelling in normal–superconductor–normal junctions
Nature Physics - Publisher Correction: Reply to: Conductance measurements cannot distinguish crossed Andreev reflection from elastic co-tunnelling in normal–superconductor–normal junctions
Universal entanglement growth along imaginary time in quantum critical systems
Extracting universal entanglement features in higher-dimensional quantum critical systems has remained challenging. Here, the authors demonstrate a universal logarithmic scaling of corner entanglement in imaginary time, enabling efficient determination of cri…
Show HN: Growth-Ratio Energy Function as Leading Indicator of Agent Task Failure
An empirical validation of physics-inspired runtime monitoring for multi-turn LLM agents across 3,175 total runs spanning four benchmarks (τ³-bench, SWE-bench, MINT, custom local-model battery). A 5-condition ablation study with multi-trial validation (333 SWE-bench runs) demonstrates that Lyapunov monitoring achieves 38.6% compute reduction with zero false positives across 5 model families (including 4 open-weight local models via Ollama). Multi-trial evaluation confirms all resolve-rate differences fall within the ±4% LLM nondeterminism band. Local model validation reveals a small-model self-sabotage pattern where naive turn-limiting outperforms unconstrained baselines by +17.5pp on average.
The Exec Who Opened The NFL To Women Says We Need More “Eff-It” Energy
Over the past decade, this NFL exec reshaped who gets to coach, scout, and lead in one of the most male-dominated institutions on earth by simply shooting her shot.
NASA’s Webb telescope wasn’t looking for a new planet around Beta Pictoris — it was studying a known one — and found a giant world, Beta Pictoris d, lurking 63 light-years away inside a debris disk that had blocked every conventional search for more than a decade
A hidden world betrayed itself through the infrared haze—revealing how Webb sees through cosmic dust that defeated astronomers for over a decade. The post NASA’s Webb telescope wasn’t looking for a new planet around Beta Pictoris — it was studying a known one…
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