London, UK (SPX) Dec 06, 2025
Going from brick-and-mortar gambling halls to digital apps didn't just tweak the industry; it completely flipped it on its head. We used to have to get dressed up, drive out, and physically walk onto a casino floor to place a wager.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
NASA's Scientific Balloon Program is returning to Antarctica for a new long-duration campaign featuring two zero-pressure balloon launches from a site near the U.S. National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice Shelf. The flights will carry the Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) and the General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS), both focused on high-energy astrophysi

Davis CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
A dynamic digital twin designed by UC Davis researchers was launched into Earth's orbit last week aboard a SpaceX rocket. The innovation, which will model the current condition and predict the future condition of the spacecraft's power system, was carried by a Proteus Space satellite and is the first of its kind to be sent into space. The rocket was launched Nov. 28 from Vandenberg Space F

Lausanne Switzerland (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
EPFL scientists have integrated discarded crustacean shells into robotic devices, leveraging the strength and flexibility of natural materials for robotic applications. Although many roboticists today turn to nature to inspire their designs, even bioinspired robots are usually fabricated from non-biological materials like metal, plastic and composites. But a new experimental robotic manipu

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
A research team at the University of Amsterdam has developed a new general-relativistic model that shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to reveal dark matter and constrain its properties. The model follows in detail how a massive black hole interacts with its surrounding matter and how this interaction alters the emitted gravitational-wave signal. Rodrigo Vicente, The

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
A team at the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has directly measured the masses of the short lived nuclei phosphorus-26 and sulfur-27, providing data needed to determine a key nuclear reaction rate in Type I X ray bursts on neutron stars. The study reports high precision mass measurements of these proton rich nuclei, which are important for modeling the rapid

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
The Sun is not just a glowing ball in the sky. From large magnetic loops hundreds of times larger than Earth, to tiny features that blink in and out of existence, our home star is far more dynamic than most of us realize. According to Krzysztof Barczynski, a solar physicist who worked on this research while at ETH Zurich and is now at PMOD/WRC in Davos, "the Sun is an incredibly active and dynam

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have identified a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars, marking the first discoveries from the Observing Accelerators with SCExAO Imaging Survey (OASIS). The program combines precision space astrometry with Subaru's high-contrast imaging to reveal companions that are otherwise hidden in the glare of their host stars. These resul

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
A team of astronomers using several ground and space-based observatories, including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, has produced one of the most precise independent measurements yet of the universe's current expansion rate, intensifying the long-running Hubble tension in cosmology. The researchers drew on data from Keck's Cosmic Web Imager together with observations from NASA's Jam

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
NASA has selected two science instruments for astronauts to deploy on the lunar surface during the Artemis IV mission to the Moon's south polar region, with the goal of improving understanding of the local environment to support future human and robotic exploration to the Moon and on to Mars. Nicky Fox, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Was