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Asteroid 2024 YR4's collision with the moon could create a flash visible from Earth, study finds
Live Science - 3 Feb 2026 21:41
If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that may be visible to the naked eye, a new study finds.
Men develop cardiovascular disease 7 years before women, study suggests. But why?
Live Science - 3 Feb 2026 21:20
Men's heart health tends to decline earlier in life, and the difference is driven largely by coronary heart disease, which appears roughly a decade sooner in men than in women.
Humanitys Last Exam Stumps Top AI Models-and Thats a Good Thing
Singularity Hub - 3 Feb 2026 21:05
The test tracks AI performance with thousands of graduate-level questions to track AI performance across academic disciplines. The post Humanitys Last Exam Stumps Top AI Models-and Thats a Good Thing appeared first on Si...
Dutch air force reads pilots' brainwaves to make training harder
New Scientist - 3 Feb 2026 18:00
While pilots are flying in a VR simulation, their brainwave patterns can be fed into an AI model that assesses how challenging they are finding a task and adjusts the difficulty accordingly
The weird rules of temperature get even stranger in the quantum realm
New Scientist - 3 Feb 2026 18:00
Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but columnist Jacklin Kwan finds that its not exactly ruled out in the quantum realm
Hydrogen leak derails Artemis II wet rehearsal, pushing launch date back by weeks
Live Science - 3 Feb 2026 16:02
NASA has delayed the Artemis II launch until March at the earliest after engineers discovered hydrogen leaks during last night's wet dress rehearsal.
Nobel laureate says he'll build worlds most powerful quantum computer
New Scientist - 3 Feb 2026 16:00
John Martinis has already revolutionised quantum computing twice. Now, he is working on another radical rethink of the technology that could deliver machines with unrivalled capabilities
'Landmark' elephant bone finding in Spain may be from time of Hannibal's war against Rome
Live Science - 3 Feb 2026 15:11
An elephant bone discovered in Spain may date to the time of Hannibal's battles against the Romans.
Mokoqi Star Projector Night Light review
Live Science - 3 Feb 2026 15:00
The Mokoqi Star Projector is a cheerful, low-cost sleep aid for babies and tots.
'System in flux': Scientists reveal what happened when wolves and cougars returned to Yellowstone
Live Science - 3 Feb 2026 13:47
Large carnivores are both clashing and coexisting in the western United States. Although wolves dominate cougars and steal their prey, cougars' shift from elk- to deer-heavy diets, paired with a rugged landscape for ...
Physicists achieve near-zero friction on macroscopic scales
Phys.org - 3 Feb 2026 13:10
For the first time, physicists in China have virtually eliminated the friction felt between two surfaces at scales visible to the naked eye. In demonstrating "structural superlubricity," the team, led by Quanshui...
In the search for bees, Mozambique honey hunters and birds share a language with distinct, regional dialects
Live Science - 3 Feb 2026 12:57
People searching for honey in Mozambique work with birds via a shared language in a rare case of cooperation between humans and wild animals. This language also comes with regional dialects - that appear to be driven by ...
A new class of strange one-dimensional particles
Phys.org - 3 Feb 2026 12:20
Physicists have long categorized every elementary particle in our three-dimensional universe as being either a boson or a fermion-the former category mostly capturing force carriers like photons, the latter including the...
LaView Galaxy Projector review
Live Science - 3 Feb 2026 12:00
This premium projector is packed with features, but the LaView Galaxy Projector doesnt quite match up to its rivals.
This unexpected plant discovery could change how drugs are made
Science Daily - 3 Feb 2026 10:06
Plants make chemical weapons to protect themselves, and many of these compounds have become vital to human medicine. Researchers found that one powerful plant chemical is produced using a gene that looks surprisingly bac...
Physicists push thousands of atoms to a 'Schrödinger's cat' state - bringing the quantum world closer to reality than ever before
Live Science - 3 Feb 2026 10:00
Researchers have demonstrated that a nanoparticle of 7,000 sodium atoms can act as a wave, creating a record-setting superposition.
Superconductivity exposes altermagnetism by breaking symmetries, study suggests
Phys.org - 3 Feb 2026 09:13
How are superconductivity and magnetism connected? A puzzling relation between magnetism and superconductivity in a quantum material has lingered for decades-now, a study from TU Wien offers a surprising new explanation....
This strange little dinosaur is forcing a rethink of evolution
Science Daily - 3 Feb 2026 09:09
A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved. Though fully grown adults were remarkably small and lightweight, their anatomy was anything bu...
Tiny droplets navigate mazes using 'chemical echolocation,' without sensors or computers
Phys.org - 3 Feb 2026 08:16
A recent study by a team of researchers led by TU Darmstadt has found that tiny amounts of liquid can navigate their way through unknown environments like living cells-without sensors, computers or external control. The ...
Trippy 'biomass' snap reveals first detailed look at our planet's carbon stores - Earth from space
Live Science - 3 Feb 2026 08:00
The first false-color image from ESA's newly operational Biomass satellite shows off a unique perspective of the rainforests, grasslands and wetlands surrounding a winding river in Bolivia.
Ultra-thin metasurface can generate and direct quantum entanglement
Phys.org - 3 Feb 2026 07:50
Quantum technologies, devices and systems that process, store, detect, or transfer information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential to outperform classical technologies in a variety of tasks. An ongo...
Niobium's superconducting switch cuts near-field radiative heat transfer 20-fold
Phys.org - 3 Feb 2026 07:46
When cooled to its superconducting state, niobium blocks the radiative flow of heat 20 times better than when in its metallic state, according to a study led by a University of Michigan Engineering team. The experiment m...