The world’s smallest marine mammal — the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, which lives only in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez — is believed to have only 10 living members, if that,… Read More »Only 10 vaquita porpoises survive, but species may not be doomed, scientists say
A team has developed a new family of two-dimensional materials that researchers say has great potential for many applications such as batteries and supercapacitors, catalysis, sensors and electronics. Go to… Read More »Powerful family of two-dimensional materials discovered
Approximately a month before it begins its research flight in the stratosphere, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III has looked at the Sun for the first time from its launch… Read More »First rays of sunlight for balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III
Researchers have analyzed cutting-edge device structures of quantum computers to demonstrate that some of them are indeed operating dangerously close to a threshold of chaotic meltdown. The challenge is to… Read More »In balance: Quantum computing needs the right combination of order and disorder
Whether you need a new villain or an old Spider-Man, your sci-fi movie will sound more scientifically respectable if you use the word “multiverse.” The Marvel multiverse puts different versions… Read More »What is the multiverse, and does it really exist?