Spread the loveTweet reader comments 31 Share this story Quantum computing and quantum communication require a different way of thinking about handling information. Not only are quantum states extremely delicate,…
Spread the loveTweet Enlarge / US Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry addresses employees for the first time at Energy Department headquarters in Washington, DC, March 3, 2017. Image courtesy…
Spread the loveTweet reader comments 207 Share this story Last year, Colorado father-of-five Tim Farnum gave his two youngest sons smartphones—and immediately regretted it. But he didn’t just take the…
Spread the loveTweet Enlarge / This raceway pond is used for continuous growth of biofuel-producing microbes. reader comments 74 Share this story There’s an inherent tension in convincing organisms to…
Spread the loveTweet reader comments 252 Share this story There are plenty of places where you can find dodgy information about climate change. If you’re the arguing (“debating”) type, you…
Spread the loveTweet reader comments 45 Share this story Gas giants like Jupiter have to grow fast. Newborn stars are embedded in a disk of gas and dust that goes…
Spread the loveTweet Enlarge / Royal graves at the site of Yinxu. beibaoke/Shutterstock reader comments 67 Share this story During the final two centuries of the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BCE)…
Spread the loveTweet Enlarge / In Greenland, sea ice is seen from NASA’s Operation IceBridge research aircraft in March 2017. NASA’s Operation IceBridge has been studying how polar ice has…
Spread the loveTweet Enlarge / This preliminary and non-operational GOES-16 visible image shows two tropical systems, one near the Gulf of Mexico, and the other northeast of South America. reader…
Spread the loveTweet Enlarge / The large Barren Ridge solar panel array near Mojave, California. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images) reader comments 64 Share this story According to the Energy…