On Jan. 26, 2026, the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Maunakea crossed an important threshold for time-domain astronomy. For the ...

Community opposition to big battery farms is spreading across Washington just as the technology takes on growing importance for the state’s clean energy transition and to stabilize the electric grid.

The Very Large Array, the iconic field of radio antennas featured in the film "Contact" (inspired by Carl Sagan's novel), has a long and distinguished history of service. But after more than 45 years ...

Mr. Elwes, a mathematical logician and professor at the University of Leeds, enumerates a multitude of such anecdotes—delightful, insightful, informative—to illustrate the bigger picture in “Huge ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — The future of radio astronomy is happening right here in New Mexico. Scientists are celebrating a milestone for the next-generation of the Very Large Array prototype antenna on the ...

One subway ride in NYC costs $3. Gizmodo has been around for 24 years. The Sun is just one of some several hundred billion stars in the Milky Way, which is also just one of some trillions of galaxies ...

Research published today in the prestigious journal Nature Water found that widespread application of the common farm fertilizer, urea, severely degrades water quality in the Canadian Prairies.

One decimal place off can prove deadly. This is the mathematical pressure — along with all the other job pressures — nurses must face in many critical situations. It can come in the emergency room ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

This video breaks down how scientists and economists use very large numbers, with clear examples from astronomy, mathematics, and modern wealth statistics to make scale easier to understand. FBI ...

SEC and White House have supported more investor product choices Concerns over investor understanding of complex products Private assets in retirement plans raise liquidity and valuation issues SEC, ...

The ARAQYS-D3 mission by Dcubed will demonstrate the ability to manufacture a solar array 15 meters long in orbit. Credit: Dcubed BREMEN, Germany — German satellite component company Dcubed is moving ...