Read article: NASA demands new designs for cost-hit Mars Sample Return mission
Space agency admits that a new timeline of 2040 for the craft is “unacceptably too long”
Read article: Excitation of thorium-229 brings a working nuclear clock closer
Experiment suggests that a solid-state clock could be possible
Read article: Shrimp-inspired nanoclusters enable multifunctional artificial vision systems
Researchers develop nanocluster-based photoreceptors that combine colour vision, photoadaptation and circular polarization vision into a single system
Read article: Can thinking like a scientist help us tackle societal issues?
Eva Amsen reviews Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell and Robert MacCoun
Read article: Adjuvant breast radiotherapy: KUH unlocks the clinical upsides of tangential VMAT
Tangential VMAT (tVMAT) is the treatment modality of choice for adjuvant breast radiotherapy at Kuopio University Hospital in Finland
Read article: Europe plans to build 100-qubit quantum computer by 2026
Funded by Quantum Delta NL, the quantum computer is expected to be made publicly available
Read article: US astronomers slam cuts to the Chandra X-ray observatory
NASA says that increasing management costs means it cannot afford to the keep the “great observatory” operational
Read article: Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has a surprising magnetic personality
Sagittarius A* and Messier 87 black holes are similar, Event Horizon Telescope reveals
Read article: MEPs call for ‘urgent action’ to implement post-quantum encryption standards
Some 20 members of the European Parliament say that new standards are needed to protect against quantum computers
Read article: Dielectric laser accelerator creates focused electron beam
Advancements in nanoscience, lasers and vacuum drove breakthrough
