A new dark matter detector under a mountain in Jeongseon, South Korea, is about to be turned on. The team is trying to rule out – or perhaps reproduce – the strange results from an earlier detector in Italy. As far as astronomers who study the observable universe can tell, only about 5 percent of …
It’s a weird and wonderful cosmic family. That’s Dinky for you Last year, images taken by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed that a small moon orbiting an asteroid called “Dinky” is, in fact, two small moons fused together. The discovery baffled scientists, who had never seen this type of satellite, known as a contact binary, orbiting …
Another solar storm is forecast for Earth, meaning residents of several US states may have another chance to see the aurora borealis on Friday night. The Space Weather Prediction Center has predicted a possible geomagnetic storm to arrive on Friday, May 31 and last until the early hours of Saturday morning. According to the organization, …
Schematic of the experimental setup. Credit: science (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.adn7087 Researchers have for the first time observed a timing crystal on a small-scale semiconductor chip oscillating at a rate of several billion times per second, revealing extremely high nonlinear dynamics in the GHz range. The results of the experiment, published in scienceestablish a strong link …
Sink your teeth into this news. Sharks may be more useful than meteorologists when it comes to long-term forecasting of hurricanes, experts say — and the clues can be found in their migration patterns. Like dogs and birds before a storm, sharks that smell trouble usually move en masse to deeper waters weeks in advance, …