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New quantum computers can operate at higher temperatures 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 16, 2020
Silicon chips raise hopes for scaling up devices to millions of quantum bits

By David Aragorn
Matter-antimatter difference found in neutrino oscillations 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 16, 2020
One of the great scientific puzzles of our time is why we live in a universe full of matter rather than antimatter. Wherever we look, we observe that matter dominates over antimatter, yet we believe that matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts soon after the Big Bang. To reconcile these two facts there must be some difference in the way matter and antimatter behave.

By David Aragorn
Scientists find an Earth-like planet hiding in old Kepler data 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 16, 2020
It’s sitting in the habitable zone of a star studied years ago.

By David Aragorn
INTRODUCING COMET SWAN 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 15, 2020
Warning: This story may give you a sense of déjà vu.

By David Aragorn
Weird alien planet may be core of stripped-down gas giant 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 15, 2020
The bizarre newfound world resides in the mostly barren ‘hot Neptunian desert.’

By David Aragorn
TESS Discovers Unusual Ancient System with Two Hot Gas Giants 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 15, 2020
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered a planetary system of two giant planets — a Neptune-sized planet and a hot Jupiter — orbiting the 8.2-billion-year-old star TOI-1130.

By David Aragorn
Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua believed to be ‘active asteroid’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 15, 2020
Scientists believe cigar-shaped visitor to our solar system is fragment of a larger body

By David Aragorn
You can see the moon shine with Jupiter, Saturn and Mars before dawn this week. Here’s how.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 14, 2020
It happens April 14, 15 and 16!

By David Aragorn
Scientists discover supernova that outshines all others 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 14, 2020
A supernova at least twice as bright and energetic, and likely much more massive than any yet recorded has been identified by an international team of astronomers, led by the University of Birmingham.

By David Aragorn
Nearly 30% in the US believe a coronavirus theory that’s almost certainly not true 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- April 14, 2020
Despite evidence from infectious disease experts suggesting otherwise, nearly 30% of Americans in a new Pew poll said they believe the novel coronavirus was likely created in a lab.

By David Aragorn