Category: 1. Edi-Choice

Researchers from the USA and India have proposed that Floquet Majorana fermions may improve quantum computing by controlling superconducting currents, potentially reducing errors and increasing stability.

In a study published in Physical…

An old Soviet spacecraft that was originally destined for Venus could fall to Earth this weekend, according to NASA.

The probe, named Kosmos 482, was launched on 31 March 1972 and was intended to enter Venus’s atmosphere, to enable scientists to…

About 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, an underwater volcano appears to be rumbling to life.

Scientists who have been monitoring the vast submarine volcano for decades say a flurry of recent activity — including an uptick in earthquakes in the…

Beneath the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean lies a strange and puzzling phenomenon—a massive gravitational anomaly that has stumped scientists for decades. This anomaly, known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), is a region where the ocean…

On May 9, a stadium-sized potentially hazardous asteroid will pass by Earth, and you can watch the flyby happen in…

Modern ideas about reality sometimes sound like a wild story. The notion that everything around us might be bits and bytes is easy to brush aside, yet it continues to intrigue many curious minds.

This perspective has led some researchers to wonder…

Tech billionaires promoting space exploration and colonization as the solution to humanity’s problems should be ignored, says Adam Becker.

These CEOs have little to no expertise in engineering or astrophysics and have little to…

A new paleontological discovery, as reported in the Historical Biology journal, has shed light on a fascinating scene from the Cretaceous period—a spider’s predatory attack on a wasp, preserved in amber. This discovery offers an…

In a groundbreaking 2023 study published in Remote Sensing of Environment, researchers led by Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at the University of South Florida, identified an unexpected phenomenon on the surface of the Baltic Sea: vast…