Archivo: Science

The long shot: Voyager on steroids
The Voyager probes raised perplexing questions as they exited the Solar System. Now, scientists have conceived new missions to interstellar space

Reality doesn’t exist until you measure it, quantum parlor trick confirms
Two players leverage quantum rules to achieve a seemingly telepathic connection

In ominous sign for global warming, feedback loop may be accelerating methane emissions
Tropical wetlands, getting wetter with climate change, emerge as hot spots for heat-trapping gas

Webb telescope wows with first images
Pictures showcase start of science campaign for NASA’s largest space telescope

Medicinal knowledge vanishes as Indigenous languages die
Language loss threatens ancient knowledge of healing plants in many regions, study shows

Can biofuels really fly?
To get the carbon out of air travel, industry and government are trying, again, to turn farm and food waste into fuel

Why the monkeypox outbreak is mostly affecting men who have sex with men
The virus did not spread well between people in the past but may have found a new niche in tightly connected sexual networks

Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else
Unless Europe’s Large Hadron Collider coughs up a surprise, the field of particle physics may wheeze to its end

How the wild jungle fowl became the chicken
New studies propose surprisingly late date, and link to rice growing, for chicken domestication