Quantum-inspired advancement turns crystal gaps into terabyte storage for classical memory
From punch card-operated looms in the 1800s to modern cellphones, if an object has an "on" and an "off" state, it can be used ...
This NASA Scientist Is Developing a Spacecraft for Interstellar Travel. Is It the Warp Drive We’ve Been Waiting For?
A scientific discovery that could transform the study of warp drive is now under wraps at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research ...
Research sheds light on using multiple CubeSats for in-space servicing and repair missions
As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for ...
Sex in space? Find out how science weighs the pluses and minuses on Valentine’s Day
You might think sex in space would be an out-of-this-world experience — but low-gravity intimacy may not be as much of a high as it sounds.
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JWST Spies a Giant Space Hamburger—and Maybe Planetary Origins, Too
It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...
A Mathematician Who Makes the Best of Things
Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies?
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
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Bowdoin professors offer thoughts on intersection of politics and academics
For many Bowdoin professors, these recent headlines—which have made an explicit connection between the current political climate and its influence on academic work—speak to the ever-present ...