MIT physicists discover electrons rebuilding like ice inside a quantum material
ScienceDaily·20 Aug 2026
MIT physicists discover electrons rebuilding like ice inside a quantum material - Date: - August 19, 2026 - Source: - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Summary: - MIT physicists found that...
Bald eagle Shadow's friend KD1 renamed Kaydee
Popular Scienceby Annie Colbert·20 Aug 2026
Say hello to Kaydee. The young bald eagle spotted hanging out with Shadow in recent weeks has a new name.
Researchers reveal deeper workings of brain’s information hub
ScienceDaily·20 Aug 2026
Researchers reveal deeper workings of brain’s information hub Scientists have revealed how the brain’s decision-making hub dynamically rewires its communication strategy when uncertainty strikes.
A mother’s age can shape her offspring without changing their DNA
ScienceDaily·19 Aug 2026
A mother’s age can shape her offspring without changing their DNA A surprising discovery suggests a mother’s age can leave a reversible biological imprint that may echo across multiple generations.
Scientists just found the fastest known star in the Milky Way. It zooms around our black hole at 15,500 miles per second
Latest from Space.comby Stefanie Waldek·19 Aug 2026
Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.
Apple Screwed Up the TestFlight App’s Sort Order a Month Ago, and It’s Still Screwed Up, but the More I Think About It, the More Clear It Is They Started Screwing This Up 15 Years Ago
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·19 Aug 2026
By John Gruber Sometimes a small change can make a big impact. That’s especially true for Apple’s latest TestFlight update for users with a lot of pre-release software.
Bear dies after getting trapped in hot car
Popular Scienceby Popular Science Team·19 Aug 2026
A 300-pound black bear died after getting trapped in a car left unlocked near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Two Photographers Spent a Year Planning the Perfect Eclipse Photo and Success Came Down to 30 Seconds
PetaPixelby Jeremy Gray·19 Aug 2026
Canadian photographer Liron Gertsman and Texas-based bird photographer Tobias Yoder traveled together to Spain to try and pull off a total solar eclipse photo years in the making.
Private mission to save NASA's Swift space telescope fails
Latest from Space.comby Josh Dinner·19 Aug 2026
NASA is calling off the effort to save its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after a private rescue spacecraft couldn't overcome its own problems in orbit.
Scientists create 'laundry gun' for astronauts to clean their clothes by shooting out plasma
Latest from Space.comby Rahul Rao·19 Aug 2026
If you have ever shared a room with multiple people for days on end, you may know how clothes and living conditions can rapidly turn rather smelly. Imagine that happening in a confined spacecraft.
NASA shares first images of SpaceX moon crash site
Popular Scienceby Andrew Paul·19 Aug 2026
SpaceX now has the dubious honor of being the first company to deface the moon, after a piece of one of its rockets crashed into Earth’s only natural satellite earlier this month.
Sound waves power these tiny drones
Popular Scienceby Sara Hashemi·19 Aug 2026
Engineers recently discovered a way to power tiny drones and robots with something we encounter every day—sound waves.
These Radio Frequency Tools Replaced My Monthly Facials
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NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission - NASA
NASAby Lauren E. Low·19 Aug 2026
Due to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft will not capture or boost an agency satellite to a higher altitude to...
Human-Related Microbes May Survive Moon’s South Pole, NASA Finds - NASA Science
NASAby Lonnie Shekhtman·19 Aug 2026
Lee esta historia en español aquí. Some of Earth’s microbes likely to hitch a ride to space with human explorers could survive in the shaded nooks and crannies of the Moon’s South Pole region, NASA...
How to Scale an Integration Pipeline Without Breaking Correctness | Towards Data Science
Towards Data Science - Mediumby Yuelin Ou·19 Aug 2026
I went back and forth for a while on whether to It sounds simple. System A calls system B’s API, what’s the big deal.
Dark matter could magnify the jets of a ravenously feeding supermassive black hole
Latest from Space.comby Robert Lea·19 Aug 2026
Astronomers have discovered that a jet of plasma erupting from a distant supermassive black hole at near-light-speed is being gravitationally lensed by an unseen clump of dark matter.
Google could soon make it easier to ask Gemini to take a look at things
Android Authorityby Karandeep Singh Oberoi·19 Aug 2026
Google could soon make it easier to ask Gemini to take a look at things Aug 19, 2026 — 1:36 PM ET - Google is working on a Guided Vision accessibility shortcut that could take users straight into...
Static electricity is a mystery, and scientists are all charged up
Science Newsby Emily Conover·19 Aug 2026
Galien Grosjean was a caretaker of tiny glass beads. He bathed them, gently cradled them with tweezers, placed them delicately in his experimental apparatus.
A SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon this month — and a NASA spacecraft has spotted its lunar grave (photos)
Latest from Space.comby Leonard David·19 Aug 2026
NASA's veteran moon-circling spacecraft, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has imaged the impact site of that errant Falcon 9 upper stage. The photos were taken on Aug. 11 and Aug.
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