Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.
Over the past couple of weeks oil—specifically, Venezuelan oil—has been all over the headlines.
It started late on January 2,…
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Chinese researchers have reported a major advance in chip cooling that could sharply boost the performance of military radars and future wireless networks.
On Tuesday, scientists from Xidian University in northwest China announced a new…
HELSINKI — China conducted its third and fourth launches of 2026 with Long March 2C and Ceres-1 rockets lifting off from Jiuquan and a sea platform respectively.
A Long March 2C rocket lifted off at 11:01 p.m. Eastern, Jan. 14 (0401…
Gmail users have been clamoring for a way to change their email addresses for years, and Google is finally acting on the request. The company began rolling out the ability to change email addresses late last month, but the feature is not…
Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how electrons dance together. The technique, known as X-ray four-wave mixing, opens a new way to see how energy and…
Stanford University has addressed the brittleness problem of electrolytes in solid-state battery technology.
The team found that applying and heating an ultra-thin silver coating onto a solid battery electrolyte can prevent the microscopic…
On the 18th day of the Artemis I mission, NASA unexpectedly lost contact with its moonship, with the silence lasting for over four hours.
The outage began when the Goldstone station…
