Scientists crack a decades-old CO2 problem and triple fuel production

Converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into methanol is widely viewed as a promising way to recycle carbon resources. However, scientists have long faced a difficult challenge when trying to improve the process.

A dying star could create a new universe instead of a black hole

Massive stars produce light and heat through nuclear fusion, a process that releases enormous amounts of energy from their cores. Eventually, however, the largest stars run out of fuel. Once that happens, the outward pressure generated by radiation is no longer strong enough to resist gravity. The star begins collapsing under its own weight, theoretically continuing until all of its mass is compressed into a single point known as a singularity.

The Road to Zacatecas: 1993 Coupes Across the Border

From the June 1993 issue of Car and Driver.

To make the 7:20 morning flight to Memphis, you get up with the garbage men. On the morning in February that we flew south, it was zero degrees and snarling in Detroit. Driving to the airport in a darkness illuminated intermittently by flashbulb-like bursts of white powder whipping across the windshield, the radio coughed up two new items. First, remaining outdoors this morning for nine minutes would most likely cause the delicate, lacy membranes of your sinuses to freeze over, solid. Second, Lee Iacocca has moved to Palm Springs.

Alien planet spins revealed a hidden clue to how worlds form

Astronomers have long suspected that a planet's mass and its rotation speed are linked. In our own Solar System, Jupiter and Saturn provide striking examples. Despite their enormous size, both complete a full rotation in about 10 hours and account for a large share of the Solar System's total rotational energy.

Women's T20 World Cup: How do you read a cricket scorecard?

ByKatharine Sharpe

BBC Sport Senior Journalist

Cricket scorecards can appear confusing at first glance, with multiple rows and columns indicating how well - or badly - both a team and individual player is faring in a match.

Dark energy survives major challenge as universe keeps accelerating

Astronomers say a recent challenge to one of the most important discoveries in modern cosmology has been resolved, with new research confirming that the universe is still expanding at an accelerating rate.

Liminal review: Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe discuss their new spacebound album, Liminal | New Scientist

Liminal
Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe, Verve Records

Quantum 2.0 review: An ambitious look at quantum physics is fun - but overdoes it a little | New Scientist

Physics of light and magnetism rewritten after almost two centuries | New Scientist

Physics

An experiment 180 years ago first demonstrated a connection between light and electromagnetism – but the link is deeper than we thought

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The forgotten women of quantum physics | New Scientist

In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As part of it, they conducted interviews with physicists who had helped found the field three or four decades earlier. Out of more than 100 interviewees, only two were women.