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Graphene advances and a Moon-anchored Spaceline offer two possible routes toward cheaper travel between Earth and deep space.
One space elevator concept demands extraordinary graphene. Another changes the physics enough that today’s fibers could theoretically work.
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Quantum-optical spin glass apparatus: The curved mirrors (green-tinted cylinders at center) form an optical cavity to trap photons inside a stainless-steel vacuum chamber. The windows allow lasers to create and trap quantum gases (not present in this photo) between the mirrors.
AIAn atom-and-photon network just found a new way to store AI memoriesShy Cohen
Artistic interpretation of the distant planetary system PDS 70. Possible exocomets around PDS 70 may reveal how giant planets send icy bodies and water toward regions where rocky worlds form.
SpaceAstronomers spot signs of comets transporting water to a young solar system PDS 70Joseph Shavit
MIT physicists find recoil and fermion statistics prevent a proposed radioactive condensate from producing a neutrino laser.
DiscoveriesMIT physicists show why a laser made of neutrinos is impossibleJoseph Shavit
Genetic evidence links greater GLP-1 receptor activity to 7% higher odds of male-pattern hair loss in susceptible men.
HealthGenetic study links GLP-1 drugs to higher risk of male-pattern baldnessJoshua Shavit
Genetic risk beyond APOE was linked to cognition, hippocampal volume, amyloid and tau across several ancestry groups.
HealthNew Alzheimer’s genetic score improves risk prediction across ancestry groupsRebecca Shavit
Solar Orbiter found a sharp change in heavy-ion composition inside the Sun’s vast heliospheric current sheet.
SpaceESA’s Solar Orbiter reveals how the Sun’s corona transforms into solar windJoseph Shavit
A silicon-photonic processor captured energy levels, a symmetry transition and topological behavior using one spectroscopy method.
InnovationsQuantum chip opens new way to read complex quantum systemsShy Cohen
JWST found four candidate pairs of little red dots that may reveal how rapidly growing black holes merged in the early universe.
SpaceJWST finds mysterious red objects pairing up in the early universeJoseph Shavit
Digital brain twins may depend less on raw computing power than on how precisely scientists can measure and continually update a living brain.
HealthCreating a digital copy of the human brain faces a bigger problem than simulating 86 billion neuronsJoshua Shavit
Campi Flegrei’s crust is weakening as uplift and earthquakes continue, but current monitoring does not point to an imminent eruption.
Green ImpactAlmost 500 years after its last eruption, Italy’s supervolcano is growing restlessJoseph Shavit
A new interferometer directly measured the quantum phase of free fall, matching a prediction tied to Einstein’s equivalence principle.
DiscoveriesA falling quantum object just passed a century-old test of Einstein’s gravityJoshua Shavit
Nanoscale imaging shows ice can form across flat microcline surfaces without relying only on cracks or step edges.
DiscoveriesAtomic images reveal why one common mineral is superior at producing iceRebecca Shavit
Star formation plunged over 4.5 billion years, but cosmic neutral hydrogen barely changed, pointing to a different bottleneck.
SpaceThe universe still has plenty of hydrogen, so why is it making fewer stars?Joseph Shavit
Artist concept of Mars's warm southern interior. Mars’s southern mantle may be 200 to 400°C hotter than the north, revealing a deep divide beneath the planet’s surface.
SpaceMars’s mantle may be hundreds of degrees hotter beneath one hemisphereJoseph Shavit
Ghost archaic ancestry reveals DNA from two unknown human lineages still carried by people around the world.
HealthTwo unknown human ancestors still live in our DNAJoshua Shavit
NIST physicists John Bollinger and Matt Affolter adjust a laser system used to trap beryllium ions, creating crystals that could help uncover elusive dark matter.
InnovationsNIST scientists invent a quantum crystal detector to hunt for dark matterJoseph Shavit