Science

Argonne and UChicago open-source PyRET links atomic defects to device light paths, enabling nearly 100x control of energy transfer for optical memory and.

New ice-flow modeling shows Scotland’s six-tonne Altar Stone could reach Dogger Bank by glacier, forcing a human rescue before seas drowned the site.

Twelve days after ignition, the Cairngorms blaze ranks as the park’s worst fire ever, Scotland’s third such wildfire record in four years with no helicopter.

A week after igniting near Ryvoan Bothy, the Cairngorms fire still smoulders, its scale and carbon toll echoing last year’s record Highland blaze.

A MeyGen turbine off Scotland ran six and a half years without repairs, proof the UK’s costly tidal power bet is paying off as rivals folded worldwide.

Scotland’s new wildfire strategy postpones a review of its helicopter shortage until after the 2026 season, even as the Cairngorms fire burns for a week.

A New Jersey homeowner’s gloves and foil preserved the Hillsborough meteorite long enough for scientists to find asteroid brine chemistry never seen before.

NASA traced 1998 SH2’s drifting orbit to hidden gas jets, confirming a dark comet and pointing to dozens more hiding in near-Earth catalogs.

Bacteria aboard the ISS have grown drug resistant for decades. A new Mars simulation study shows the same risk could intensify for future astronaut crews.

A record-loud 2025 black hole merger let physicists measure two ringdown tones for the first time, the exact test a major new review says needs future detectors.