Hurricane Helen as seen by NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite en route to Florida on Sept. 26, 2024. (Image credit: NOAA satellites) The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be more intense than usual, according to forecasts from the National Oceanic…
The pelican eel’s lower jaw is about a quarter of its total body length. (Image credit: David Shale, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Traveling through the inky darkness of the “midnight zone” in the deep ocean, the pelican eel…
On the way to Krokodillen: One of NASA’s Perseverance rover’s navigation cameras captured tracks left by the rover leading away from an area called Witch Hazel Hill on May 13, 2025, the 1503rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.…
A study participant places one of the night vision lenses in his eye. (Photo credit: Yuqian Ma, Yunyo Chen, Hang Zhao) Scientists have developed night vision contact lenses that they claim can give people ‘super vision’. These lenses, which use…
An Amazon Vulcan robot picks items from storage pallets. (Image courtesy of Amazon) Amazon has unveiled a new haptic robot that can pick up and place about three-quarters of the items in its warehouses. According to the e-commerce giant, the…
JWST has detected water ice in the vicinity of a distant star, giving scientists the opportunity to study how this essential element for life is delivered to young planets outside our solar system. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford…
The battery behaves like a water-filled balloon, maintaining its shape and holding a significant amount of material while remaining flexible. (Photo credit: Thor Balkhed) Researchers say they have developed a battery that can stretch and bend without losing power, a…
Recent archaeological excavations on Hatteras Island may have just provided “irrefutable evidence” that sheds light on the fate of the Roanoke settlers and may possibly solve the mystery of the “lost colony.” Wikimedia CommonsIllustration of the discovery of the inscription…
Exascale computing represents the latest milestone in the evolution of modern supercomputers—powerful machines capable of performing calculations at speeds currently unachievable using any other technology. Exascale supercomputers are machines that operate at the exaflop level. The “exa” prefix stands for…
(Image credit: johnason/Getty Images) Researchers in the UK have successfully linked two separate quantum processors, paving the way for a quantum internet and possibly quantum supercomputers. Increasing the number of quantum bits, known as qubits, in a quantum computer is…