5,000-Year-Old Penguin ‘Mummies’ Found in Antarctica

by quasarn01 | Feb 10, 2026 | Ancient Code

YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/_7h7t_i4FBM?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1 Penguin mummies dating back thousands of years have been discovered in Antarctica. An ornithologist from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Steven Emslie, has...

Could electronic beams in the ionosphere remove space junk?

by quasarn01 | Feb 10, 2026 | Latest in Physics

A possible alternative to active debris removal (ADR) by laser is ablative propulsion by a remotely transmitted electron beam (e-beam). The e-beam ablation has been widely used in industries, and it might provide higher overall energy efficiency of an ADR system and a...

Laser‑written glass chip pushes quantum communication toward practical deployment

by quasarn01 | Feb 10, 2026 | Latest in Physics

As quantum computers continue to advance, many of today’s encryption systems face the risk of becoming obsolete. A powerful alternative—quantum cryptography—offers security based on the laws of physics instead of computational difficulty. But to turn quantum...

Supercomputer simulations test turbulence theories at record 35 trillion grid points

by quasarn01 | Feb 10, 2026 | Latest in Physics

Using the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have performed the largest direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulence in three dimensions, attaining a record...

Stable high-energy pulses achieved with low-stress electro-optic switch

by quasarn01 | Feb 10, 2026 | Latest in Physics

A research team led by Prof. Zhang Tianshu from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a low-stress electro-optic switch based on large-aperture β-barium borate (BBO) slab crystals and integrated it into an Nd:YAG...