UK in pole position to lead key instrument in NASA’s hunt for Earth-like worlds

by quasarn01 | Jul 24, 2026 | Astronomy

UK astronomers are a step closer to playing a leading role in NASA’s search for alien life in the coming decades as they continue developing one of the core instruments of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). The exciting mission—the U.S. space agency’s...

Oxygen collisions at the LHC show new indications of extreme state of matter

by quasarn01 | Jul 24, 2026 | Latest in Physics

All four main LHC experiments have found new signs that oxygen and neon collisions may create the extreme state of matter that existed during the first microseconds after the Big Bang. Go to Source

Ark. PD shares video of ‘Spiderman’ leaping into action to help wheelchair user cross street in traffic

by quasarn01 | Jul 24, 2026 | Police Lives Matter

“Some people say cops are heroes, but even we need a little helping hand,” the Jonesboro PD stated in a post sharing traffic camera footage of the superhero rescue Go to Source

World’s first ‘zinc oxide spin qubit’ could advance scalable quantum devices

by quasarn01 | Jul 24, 2026 | Latest in Physics

A research team led by SKKU professor Hosung Seo of the Department of Quantum Information Engineering and the SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology, working with the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Washington, has identified—for the first...

Astronomers catch massive galaxy assembling piece by piece 1.2 billion years after Big Bang

by quasarn01 | Jul 24, 2026 | Astronomy

Astronomers have discovered a remarkably tiny group of six young galaxies just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. This may be a rare glimpse of how some of the universe’s largest galaxies formed. The paper outlining the findings was submitted to the arXiv...