New ALICE subdetectors, Forward Calorimeter (left) and Inner Tracking System 3 components (right). Credit: ALICE Collaboration Two detector upgrades to ALICE, the heavy ion physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), have recently been approved for installation during the LHC’s next long stop, which will take place from 2026 to 2028. The first is … Read more
DESTROYED NO ONE WAS HURT IN THIS TORNADO. MOUNT AIRE IN SOUTHERN IOWA IS DOING SOME TORNADO AND HEAVY ROCK DAMAGE. SOME ROCKS WERE BIGGER THAN BASEBALL SIZE. KCCIS ETHAN HUMMEL TALKED TO A COUPLE ABOUT THE MESSAGE THAT REMAINS AND. NOT MANY MOUNT AIRES DID AS MUCH DAMAGE FROM THE TORNADO AS WINE MILLS, … Read more
WASHINGTON The Space Force is looking to an innovative in-orbit refueling technology, but there’s a key question: Is it worth the cost, especially as the military considers a shift to cheaper, single-use satellites use? The jury is still out on the value proposition, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said at an April 30 … Read more
New research led by the University of California, Irvine addresses a fundamental debate in astrophysics: Must invisible dark matter exist to explain how the Universe works the way it does, or can physicists explain how things work based solely on in the matter that we can directly? observe? Dark photons are hypothetical dark sector particles … Read more
what to know New York City is headed for more intense rain, flooding and heat waves, according to a new climate report. By the end of the century, New York could see up to 30% more annual rainfall. On average, there are about 370 heat-related deaths in New York per year. New York City is … Read more
The Atacama Observatory of the University of Tokyo (TAO) at the top of Cerro Chajnantor. Credit: TAO 2024 Project How do planets form? How do galaxies evolve? And finally, how did the universe begin? A unique astronomical observatory that researchers hope will unravel some of the biggest mysteries out there is set to open on … Read more
The recent drought in the Panama Canal was not driven by global warming but by below-normal rainfall linked to the natural El Nio climate cycle, an international team of scientists has concluded. Low reservoir levels have slowed cargo traffic in the canal for most of the past year. Without enough water to raise and lower … Read more
If you see a northern marsupial mole, you might be surprised. Known to the First Nations peoples of Australia’s Western Desert as the kakarratul, it has no eyes and golden fur. At just four inches from nose to tail, the animal would fit in the palm of your hand. And unlike the mole species of … Read more
Although we can’t see it, we live in a quantized world where the light that illuminates our days is made up of tiny bundles of energy, and the atoms that make up matter are similarly divided into discrete bands of energy. Like coins in a slot machine, dropping the right quanta of light on an … Read more
Beneath the turquoise waters of Heron Island lies a huge, brain-shaped Porites coral which, in health, would be a rude shade of purplish-brown. Today this coral outcrop, or bommie, shines as white as snow. Professor Terry Hughes, an expert on coral bleaching at James Cook University, estimates that this living rock is at least 300 … Read more