The Solar System floats in the middle of a peculiarly empty region of space. A team of astronomers led by the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has now mapped the Local Bubble with the highest precision yet – and found that the Local Bubble was likely carved out of the interstellar medium by…
Month: January 2022
James Webb Space Telescope reaches new home
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has reached its new home a million miles from Earth. After a nail-biting 29 days of travel and ultra-precise deployments, the James Webb Space Telescope fired its thrusters one more time Monday to reach its final parking spot a million miles from Earth. For more, check out this USA Today…
New cybersecurity service uses entanglement to generate cryptographic keys
Hello Quantum World! Quantinumm’s software company Cambridge Quantum announced a new way to provide cryptographic keys that uses Honeywell’s H1, entanglement and an API. Quantum Origin can run on any quantum computer and is designed to integrate into existing cybersecurity solutions. For more, check out this TechRepublic story.
Scientists discovered an unexpected force that may have helped create life on Earth
Scientists may have found more evidence of how life on Earth came to be. The culprit? Solar wind. According to a new study, solar wind could be one of the forces responsible for helping provide the water molecules needed to create the Earth’s oceans, rivers, and lakes. The new idea could help us understand more…
Fusion Reaction Has Generated More Energy Than Absorbed by The Fuel
A major milestone has been breached in the quest for fusion energy. For the first time, a fusion reaction has achieved a record 1.3 megajoule energy output – and for the first time, exceeding energy absorbed by the fuel used to trigger it. For more, check out this ScienceAlert story.
Scientists spot ‘intruder’ flying through space and disturbing distant star
Sounds intriguing…Scientists have spotted an “intruder” disturbing a forming star in a distant star system. Usually, when such disturbances happen, they don’t happen by intruders, but by stars that have grown up together close next to each other. Stars tend to form with other stars, and those siblings – sometimes as many as four of…
Scientists discovered a massive new world and they have no idea how it formed
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has discovered a brand-new world. What makes this new discovery so intriguing, though, is that scientists are scratching their heads about it. Because of how hot the two-star system is, it doesn’t make sense for planets to have formed within it. As such, scientists are perplexed at how…
We may finally be able to test one of Stephen Hawking’s most far-out ideas
New research suggests we may soon be able to test one of Stephen Hawking’s most controversial theories. In the 1970s, Hawking proposed that dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most matter in the cosmos, may be made of black holes formed in the earliest moments of the Big Bang. Now, three astronomers have…
New version of Norton 360 installs a crypto miner on your PC by default?
I saw this story over on Guru 3D. If it is true, that is shady! If you are a user of Norton 360 antivirus, then you might want to ditch the software altogether. Ever since last year they’ve been experimenting with a crypto miner, which now is getting enabled by default. And they’re doing this…
New eye drops could replace reading glasses for millions
Eye drops instead of glasses? Vuity, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in October, would potentially replace reading glasses for some of the 128 million Americans who have trouble seeing close-up. The new medicine takes effect in about 15 minutes, with one drop on each eye providing sharper vision for six to…