1+ hour, 37+ min ago   (304+ words) Listening to the changing Arctic Ocean lead image The changing climate is changing the Arctic Ocean. Ice, however, makes it challenging to track these changes, so scientists turn to sound. Acoustic signals transmitted beneath the ice can reveal this concealed…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago   (326+ words) Quantum tools for classical sensing: Moir" fringes of megadalton clusters as a force probe lead image Quantum theory doesn't have strict size limits. Yet, apples, pebbles, and people don't exist in superposition. Pedalino et al. sought to test the limit…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (344+ words) WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2026 " Kemp's ridley sea turtles are among the most endangered species of sea turtles in the world. They reside along the east and [] A Hearing Test for the World's Rarest Sea Turtle Lead Image WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2026 " Kemp's ridley sea…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (529+ words) Alice Shapley, winner of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2026 " The Heineman Foundation, AIP, and the American Astronomical Society are pleased to announce Alice Shapley as the winner of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics. Shapley was selected…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (294+ words) Harnessing the power of a smartphone barometer for physics lessons lead image Smartphones contain powerful sensors that help measure and record the world around them. For instance, many smartphones contain a barometer sensitive enough to tell pressure differences between different…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (257+ words) Modeling drifting seaweed rafts that clog ports and beaches lead image Francisco Beron-Vera and Gage Bonner employed two machine learning models to develop equations of motion for Sargassum rafts directly from collected data. Their goal was to explore the effectiveness…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (292+ words) Automatically numbering and weighting electronic states instead of taking averages improves estimates of target molecular orbitals. Rethinking electron-molecule scattering simulations Rethinking electron-molecule scattering simulations lead image When an electron collides with a molecule, the electron can bounce off every which…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (417+ words) The IceCube Laboratory at the South Pole is a facility for detecting neutrinos arriving from cosmic sources. At right is the South Pole Telescope, a facility for observing at microwave, millimeter, and sub-millimeter electromagnetic wavelengths that is used to study…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (349+ words) A collage of responses to OSTP's RFI on accelerating science. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy received more than 12,000 comments in response to a request for information on how to accelerate the American scientific enterprise " with many…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (279+ words) Dissertations and Theses Referencing NBLA Over Time Turning to look at some of the most recent dissertations referencing our collections, we can see a few different communities of users who are engaging with our resources. As one might expect, first…...