Golden Lake
This stunning Earth image taken from the International Space Station looks at a large lake in eastern Kazakhstan with golden sunglint: Lake Balkhash. It is
Category: Science
New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems
In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point
Scientists unveil world’s first quantum computer built with regular silicon chips
A London-based startup has created the world’s first full-stack quantum computer using a standard silicon CMOS chip fabrication process
Perplexing diamonds from South Africa mine contain ‘almost impossible’ chemistry
Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how diamonds form.
NASA launches special mission to study Earth’s mysterious “halo”
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has taken flight, and will soon start a two-year mission to study Earth’s mysterious “halo”.
See a 3-D map of stellar nurseries based on data from the Gaia telescope
The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the effects of a rare type of
Meet the ‘grue jay,’ a rare hybrid songbird
Despite millions of years of evolutionary separation and a geographical divide, a blue jay and green jay mated in Texas. This bird is the result.