When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts
as with creating images.

— Niels Bohr

Astronomy

What can psychoanalysis teach us about love and heartbreak?

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 2:00pm
In Love's Labour, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on 40 years of conversations with his patients about relationships. This compelling memoir is reminiscent of the writing of Oliver Sacks, says David Robson
Categories: Astronomy

We have let down teens if we ban social media but embrace AI

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 2:00pm
Governments are looking to ban social media for children but can't get enough of AI – a technology parents are far less equipped to deal with
Categories: Astronomy

We have let down teens if we ban social media but embrace AI

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 2:00pm
Governments are looking to ban social media for children but can't get enough of AI – a technology parents are far less equipped to deal with
Categories: Astronomy

A New Method For Producing Oxygen Using Magnets

Universe Today - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 12:05pm

Since sending the first human into space in the 1960s, the solution to one key challenge has remained elusive: the efficient and reliable production of oxygen in space. On the International Space Station, this problem is addressed by heavy and energy-intensive systems that are not ideal for long-duration space missions.

Categories: Astronomy

"Soot Planets" Might Be More Common Than "Water Worlds"

Universe Today - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 12:05pm

According to astronomers, water worlds, though admittedly not those containing Kevin Costner, are one of the most common types of planets in our solar system. This is partly due to low density estimates and the abundance of water ice past the “snow line” orbit of a star. But a new paper led by Jie Li and their colleagues at the University of Michigan, suggests there might be an alternative type of planet that fits the density data but is made up of a completely different type of material - soot.

Categories: Astronomy

Astronomers Discover One of the Most Massive Binary Stars in the Galaxy

Universe Today - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 12:05pm

Deep in one of our Galaxy's most spectacular star forming regions, astronomers have undertaken the most detailed look yet at a pair of stellar giants that rank among the heaviest stars ever directly measured in the Milky Way. The binary system NGC 3603-A1, located 25,000 light years from Earth, consists of two massive stars locked in an incredibly tight orbital dance.

Categories: Astronomy

3D-printing could make it easier to make large quantum computers

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 12:00pm
As quantum computers get larger, they may become truly useful – 3D-printing a key component of some quantum computers may make it easier to build larger arrays of qubits to make them more powerful
Categories: Astronomy

3D-printing could make it easier to make large quantum computers

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 12:00pm
As quantum computers get larger, they may become truly useful – 3D-printing a key component of some quantum computers may make it easier to build larger arrays of qubits to make them more powerful
Categories: Astronomy

We may have 10 times less carbon storage capacity than we thought

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 12:00pm
Storing carbon dioxide underground is seen as a way to mitigate climate change, but the world could run out of safe storage space within 200 years if we keep on burning fossil fuels
Categories: Astronomy

We may have 10 times less carbon storage capacity than we thought

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 12:00pm
Storing carbon dioxide underground is seen as a way to mitigate climate change, but the world could run out of safe storage space within 200 years if we keep on burning fossil fuels
Categories: Astronomy

Queen ant makes males of another species for daughters to mate with

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 12:00pm
Bizarrely, Iberian harvester ant queens lay eggs that turn into male builder harvester ants, and some of her offspring are hybrids of the two species
Categories: Astronomy

Queen ant makes males of another species for daughters to mate with

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 12:00pm
Bizarrely, Iberian harvester ant queens lay eggs that turn into male builder harvester ants, and some of her offspring are hybrids of the two species
Categories: Astronomy

First map of mammal brain activity may have shown intuition in action

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 12:00pm
Scientists have mapped the activity that takes place across a mouse's entire brain as it decides how to complete a task - and the results could explain the origin of our gut feelings
Categories: Astronomy

First map of mammal brain activity may have shown intuition in action

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 12:00pm
Scientists have mapped the activity that takes place across a mouse's entire brain as it decides how to complete a task - and the results could explain the origin of our gut feelings
Categories: Astronomy

The futuristic new tech that could bridge broken nerves and mend minds

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 12:00pm
From flexible implants to circuits seeded with living cells, a new kind of electronics is starting to produce long-lasting implants with the potential to help everything from paralysis to hearing and vision loss
Categories: Astronomy

The futuristic new tech that could bridge broken nerves and mend minds

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 12:00pm
From flexible implants to circuits seeded with living cells, a new kind of electronics is starting to produce long-lasting implants with the potential to help everything from paralysis to hearing and vision loss
Categories: Astronomy

Thinning Arctic Sea Ice

NASA Image of the Day - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 11:19am
Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats in the ocean. This photo, taken from NASA’s Gulfstream V Research Aircraft on July 21, 2022, shows Arctic sea ice in the Lincoln Sea north of Greenland.
Categories: Astronomy, NASA

Spouses Tend to Share Psychiatric Disorders, Massive Study Finds

Scientific American.com - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 9:00am

Spouses often share psychiatric diagnoses, according to an analysis of almost 15 million people in three countries

Categories: Astronomy

A Giant Map Shows How DNA Changes as We Age

Scientific American.com - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 8:00am

A map of DNA methylation changes in human organs—from the stomach to the retinas—could help researchers discover more targets for antiaging therapies

Categories: Astronomy

The Local Universe May Be Misleading Cosmologists about Dark Energy and Expansion

Scientific American.com - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 7:30am

Our understanding of cosmology hinges on how well we know our own local universe, which remains poorly mapped and poorly understood

Categories: Astronomy