Superconductors are like the express trains in a metro system. Any electricity that "boards" a superconducting material can ...

One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

Summer McKesson struggled to breathe for years. Doctors told her it was because her blood would not stop clotting – and they couldn’t figure out why. A single clot alone can be lethal; but the ...

The WoW patch 11.2.7 PTR is online, and though it (again) doesn’t have Player Housing, . After that, expect the PTR to stay online with other patch 11.2.7 features, like the Brawler’s Guild. If it’s ...

At Aswan’s quarry, we test the dolerite ball theory where Egypt’s largest obelisk lies unfinished. Could this be how ancient engineers shaped granite? Trump administration looking to sell nearly 200 ...

Vertical Semiconductor Inc. is hoping to crack the power delivery bottleneck in artificial intelligence data centers after closing on an $11 million seed funding round today. The round was led by ...

When it comes to reading, the nation's third- through eighth-graders are still mired in a pandemic-era slump, according to new testing data. In math, the news is only a little more heartening: Student ...

IE University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation ES. IE University provides funding as a member of The Conversation EUROPE. While these may seem like disconnected events, in ...

SpaceX is preparing to launch the eleventh flight test of its Starship rocket as early as Monday, October 13, with the launch window opening at 6:15 p.m. CT (7:15 p.m. ET). BOCA CHICA, TEXAS – SpaceX ...

A health start-up is harnessing the power of beagles' extraordinary sense of smell to revolutionize early cancer detection. The company, Spot It Early, has developed a test that uses trained beagles ...

SpaceX’s Starship ascends on the Flight 11 launch Oct. 13. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — SpaceX successfully completed the final flight of version 2 of Starship on Oct. 13, performing a series of ...

SpaceX's eleventh integrated flight test of Starship is scheduled for October 13, originating from Starbase, Texas, building upon prior flight successes. New objectives for the Starship upper stage ...