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For more than a decade, astronomers have been trying to get a closer look at GJ 1214b, an exoplanet 40 light-years away from Earth. Their biggest obstacle is a thick layer of haze that blankets the planet, shielding it from the probing eyes of space telescopes and stymying efforts to study its atmosphere. NASA’s new...

COVID-19 is no longer a public health emergency in the US. The Biden administration’s deadline follows the World Health Organization’s announcement last week that removed COVID’s status as a global health crisis. Infectious disease experts tell Popular Science that it’s an encouraging step and a sign that we are in a very different place than...

May 10, 2023Updated: May 11, 2023 12:21 a.m. This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of3Tiles are scattered after an earthquake in Kisarazu, Chiba prefecture, near Tokyo Thursday, May 11, 2023. An earthquake shook Japan’s capital, Tokyo, and surrounding areas on Thursday, injuring several people and causing minor damage, officials and media...

GENEVA (AP) — Authorities in eastern Switzerland ordered residents of the tiny village of Brienz to evacuate by Friday evening because geology experts say a mass of 2 million cubic meters of Alpine rock looming overhead could break loose and spill down in the coming weeks. Local leaders said during a town hall and a...

Paleontologists have unearthed four cervical vertebrae of Jurassic pliosaurid in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. The specimens are noteworthy for their size, with a maximum width of 27 cm, maximum height of 22 cm and maximum length of 10 cm. Simple scaling and comparisons with cervical vertebrae of other Jurassic and Cretaceous pliosaurs suggest a...

The coat of arms of Italy’s aristocratic House of Borromeo contains an unsettling symbol: an arrangement of three interlocking rings that that cannot be pulled apart but doesn’t contain any linked pairs. That same three-way linkage is an unmistakable signature of one of the most coveted phenomena in quantum physics — and it has now...

Home » Space » SpaceX Launched Over 80% of All Orbital Payload Mass in Q1 2023 The recent Bryce Tech quarterly report on the global space industry shows SpaceX launched over 80% of all payload mass to orbit. SpaceX launched 233 tons to orbit while second place, the country of China, launched less than 24...

Helion Energy will provide Microsoft (MSFT.O) with electricity from nuclear fusion in about five years. It is the first purchase power agreement for commercial nuclear fusion energy. Announcing Helion’s first customer: Microsoft. We expect to start producing electricity in the world’s first fusion power plant by 2028, dramatically shortening the timeline for commercially viable fusion...

Led by Stefan Wilhelm, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, a team of researchers from the Gallogly College of Engineering at OU, OU Health Sciences Center and Yale University recently published an article in ACS Nano that describes their development of a super-resolution imaging platform technology...

A startup called Helion thinks it can get a functioning nuclear fusion working within five years—a lofty goal, to say the least. By Andrew Paul | Published May 10, 2023 4:00 PM EDT Microsoft aims to buy electricity generated by Helion’s fusion generator in 2028. Helion After embracing artificial intelligence, Microsoft is taking another gamble...