Tagged “science”

A fifth planet at L 98-59 sits where water could stay liquid — but it never crosses its star, and that limits what anyone can learn about it

Montréal astronomers confirmed a super-Earth on a 23-day orbit receiving about as much light as Earth. It never transits, so 2.8 Earth…

31 Jul 2025

The universe’s expiry date moved from 10¹¹⁰⁰ years to 10⁷⁸ — and the number is the least interesting part of the paper

Radboud physicists applied Hawking-style evaporation to white dwarfs. The claim underneath the headline is that you do not need a black…

18 May 2025

The taste device worked across 3,000 km, on sixteen people, at about 70 per cent accuracy on one dimension of one flavour

Sensors detect glucose and glutamate; a pump mixes chemicals at the other end to approximate coffee, lemonade, cake, fried egg and fish…

5 Mar 2025

A scientist who left Michigan for Tsinghua has built the world’s largest trapped-ion quantum system: 512 ions in a two-dimensional crystal

Duan Luming spent fifteen years at the University of Michigan, returned to China in 2018, and his Tsinghua team has now published in Nature…

1 Jun 2024