NASA now officially has no plans to use new mobile launcher for Artemis

by quasarn01 | Mar 5, 2026 | Astronomy

When NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the revamped approach to the Artemis moon program, it was unclear whether the new mobile launcher that has been constructed over the last two years at Kennedy Space Center would ever get used. Go to Source

Researchers create a never-before-seen molecule and prove its exotic nature with quantum computing

by quasarn01 | Mar 5, 2026 | Latest in Physics

An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterized a molecule unlike any previously known—one whose electrons travel through its structure in a...

Why Large Hadron Collider predictions can miss the mark, and a new way to fix it

by quasarn01 | Mar 5, 2026 | Latest in Physics

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To improve current simulations of high-energy particle...

Missing technosignatures? Turbulent plasma may blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems

by quasarn01 | Mar 5, 2026 | Astronomy

A new study by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests that stellar “space weather” could make radio signals from extraterrestrial intelligence harder to detect. Stellar activity and plasma turbulence near a transmitting planet can broaden an otherwise...

Electric field tunes vibrations to ease heat transfer

by quasarn01 | Mar 5, 2026 | Latest in Physics

New research from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with The Ohio State University and Amphenol Corporation, challenges conventional understanding about controlling heat flow in solid materials. The study, published in...