NASA wants the Voyagers to age gracefully, so it’s time for a software patch

Around a half-dozen full-timers and a few part-timers are keeping Voyager alive.

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How plants communicate with each other when in danger

The study marks the first time researchers have been able to “visualize plant-to-plant communication,” the senior author of the study said.

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An Introduction to Flashover - Episode 9

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Billions of Alaska snow crabs likely vanished due to warm ocean, study says

The crabs starved to death en masse because the change in water temperature increased their caloric needs, according to the NOAA

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Gaganyaan: India launches test flight ahead of sending man into space

The launch was the first in a series of tests ahead of Gaganyaan, India's first manned space mission.

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21 species removed from endangered list due to extinction, U.S. wildlife officials say

The Fish and Wildlife Service said 21 species, including a mammal, birds, fish and mussels, are being removed from the endangered list because they're now considered extinct.

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Superlensing without a super lens: physicists boost microscopes beyond limits

Attempts to break the diffraction limit with “super lenses” have all hit the hurdle of extreme visual losses. Now physicists at the University of Sydney have shown a new pathway to achieve superlensing with minimal losses, breaking through the diffraction limit by a factor of nearly four times. The key to their success was to remove the super lens altogether.

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