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Plasma Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Aug 29, 2025

Bon voyage: General Atomics set to ship final piece of giant battery to nuclear fusion project in France

The final section of what scientists and engineers say will be the largest and most powerful pulsed, superconducting magnet in the world has been completed at the Poway campus of San Diego-based General Atomics.

Plants & Animals Aug 29, 2025

Treetop tutorials: Orangutans learn how to build their beds by peering at others and a lot of practice

Warwick primatologists, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute, have shown that young orangutans develop their nighttime nest-building skills via observational social learning—by closely watching others and then ...

Environment Aug 28, 2025

Home hardening and defensible space can halve wildfire damage, study finds

Since January's wildfires flattened entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles, displacing 12,900 households and causing an estimated $30 billion in losses, California's many other fire-prone communities have been eager for solutions ...

Other Aug 28, 2025

World maps get Africa's size wrong: Cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 signatures.

Planetary Sciences Aug 28, 2025

Mars's mantle preserves chaotic features from colossal impacts

New research published in the journal Science reveals the red planet's mantle preserves a record of its violent beginnings.

Optics & Photonics Aug 28, 2025

Engineers send quantum signals with standard Internet Protocol

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania brought quantum networking out of the lab and onto commercial fiber-optic cables using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that powers today's web.

Quantum Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Aug 28, 2025

Clever algorithm enables real-time noise mitigation in quantum devices

Quantum researchers have deployed a new algorithm to manage noise in qubits in real time. The method can be applied to a wide range of different qubits, even in large numbers.

Environment Aug 28, 2025

Chromium-6, nanosilver detected in LA fire cleanup zones

Air quality scientists have detected elevated levels of hexavalent chromium and silver in air samples collected from the debris cleanup zones for the Eaton and Palisades wildfires, which occurred January 2025 in Los Angeles ...

Astronomy Aug 28, 2025

CHORD will be a huge leap forward for Canadian radio astronomy

Construction is underway of CHORD, the most ambitious radio telescope project ever built on Canadian soil. Short for the Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector, CHORD will give astronomers an unprecedented ...

Astronomy Aug 28, 2025

Asteroid Bennu is like a time capsule from the early solar system

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar system. More than just ...

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