Earthquakes may explain how huge gold nuggets form in quartz rock
To test this idea, the team conducted experiments with quartz crystals placed in a solution containing gold and subjected to moderate pressures from an actuator.
Here’s why some shooting stars have long-lasting afterglows
Classical physics is an explanation of the nature and properties of matter and energy that relies on descriptions such as Newton’s laws of motion.
World’s biggest battery coming to Maine — and it could store 130 million times more energy than your laptop
"The project will ensure a more reliable, clean, and affordable grid in New England by reducing transmission congestion and making valuable wind energy resources available when and where they are needed," said Jaramillo in the statement.
Mayo is weirdly great for understanding nuclear fusion experiments
The classic condiment is useful for understanding how materials behave, not only when smeared on sandwiches or plopped in potato salads, but also when deployed in nuclear fusion experiments.
Early galaxies weren’t mystifyingly massive after all, James Webb Space Telescope finds
The universe has expanded greatly since it was born about 13.8 billion years ago in the Big Bang, and that means the light from early galaxies appears reddened by the time it reaches Earth, much as how an ambulance siren sounds lower-pitched to people as the vehicle drives away.
How a new kind of vaccine could lead to the eradication of Alzheimer’s
Vaxxinity, which is based in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is working on vaccines designed to halt the progression of Alzheimer’s or even stop it from developing in the first place.
Remote seamounts in the southeast Pacific may be home to 20 new species
A Chrysogorgia (golden coral) encountered by a robot diving along an unnamed Nazca Ridge seamount harbors other deep-sea species, including a Calliaster seastar and Lyrocteis ctenophore (yellow, gelatinous animals with trailing tentacles).
JWST found rogue worlds that blur the line between stars and planets
Ray Jayawardhana at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and his colleagues found these strange worlds in the NGC 1333 star cluster using the James Webb Space Telescope.
Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
In the opening to Octavia E. Butler's prescient science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to Lauren Olamina and start to learn about the dystopian future her story takes place in
Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code
The original Doom was released in 1993 and has become a popular subject for computer science projects in the years since, including attempts to get it running on unusual and limited hardware such as toasters, treadmills and espresso machines.
The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why this species died out
DNA: (short for deoxyribonucleic acid) A long, double-stranded and spiral-shaped molecule inside most living cells that carries genetic instructions.
SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew set to attempt the riskiest spacewalk yet
When astronauts perform spacewalks, or extravehicular activities (EVAs), on the International Space Station, they don their suits and enter a sealed room.