Science

GCOIN Goes Live on XT.COM: Looking Past the Listings to the Engine Underneath

\ A token listing is the easiest milestone in crypto to announce and the hardest to interpret, because it tells you a great deal about a project's distribution strategy and almost nothing about whether the project works. Playnance , the…

A new paper argues Microsoft exaggerated its quantum claims a year ago

A critique published in Nature Wednesday calls the basic technology behind Microsoft's "breakthrough" quantum computing chip the Majorana 1 into question. Microsoft unveiled the chip in February 2025 and said it featured a brand-new…

Ukraine’s latest long-range strikes on Russia hit a major natural gas plant and satellite centers

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces struck a major natural gas processing plant and two key satellite communications centers in their latest nighttime attacks on Russia, Ukraine’s General Staff said Wednesday.

Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender launch new party aimed at political centre promising ‘reason over rage’

New party dubbed Community Strong Australia follows secret talks about future of community independents Teal independents Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender have launched a new political party called Community Strong Australia, with the aim…

Ateneo scientists propose generating power from Visayas tides

With its vast coastlines, the Philippines is no stranger to the unrelenting power of waves and tides. Being able to tap even just one-fifth of this power would already be equivalent to the nation’s current total energy capacity, said…

Tesla Holders Bet on SpaceX Merger as Musk’s Real Endgame

Bloomberg's Carmen Arroyo joins Dani Burger and Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Deals." It’s been a challenging year for Tesla shareholders, losing 15% while watching Elon Musk’s SpaceX complete the biggest initial public offering ever and…

Latest Niamey airport attack tests Niger junta as terror groups 'adapt'

Niamey airport was attacked for the second time this year on 18 June, with 13 people killed, in an assault that illustrated how jihadist groups are changing their methods to test Niger’s security forces. Nigerien researcher Brimaka Abdoul…

Experimental wine bottle tracks oxygen moving through the cork

Most people perceive a cork in a bottle of wine as a simple plug meant to keep the liquid in and the outside world out. In the recent study published in Science Advances, a team of French scientists demonstrated the cork is way more than…

A SpaceX ‘investment coma’ is driving this major space ETF toward its worst month in 6 years

Investors are seeing “the reality now of owning a very volatile space stock.”

Elon Musk loses trillionaire status as SpaceX and Tesla stock drops

Falling shares push tech mogul back down to billionaire ranks after SpaceX IPO made him world’s first trillionaire Elon Musk was no longer a trillionaire by the time markets closed on Wednesday. Plunging shares in Tesla and SpaceX dragged…

AWS pipped AMD and Intel to the first CPU supporting PCIe 6.0, and you can now finally rent it by the hour (but don't…

AWS becomes the first cloud provider offering rentable PCIe 6.0 processors Graviton5 combines 192 Arm cores with 96 PCIe lanes Memory bandwidth exceeds 800GB/s across AWS's latest server platform AWS has quietly achieved a milestone that…

Scientists seek clues to longevity from three Brazilian sisters over 100