The Africa2Moon mission, Africa’s first fully African-led lunar exploration initiative, aims to send a set of antennas to the surface of the Moon. The project brings together African scientists and engineers, with participation from Rhodes University in South Africa. The mission seeks to open a new window into the Universe by studying radio frequencies that […]

Human beings are naturally anthropocentric, often viewing ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. Yet, in terms of biomass, humans are insignificant compared with plants and other forms of life. Scientists estimate that Earth is home to more than three trillion trees—far more than the number of stars in our galaxy. When the hundreds of thousands […]

In a newly published study, three physicists at the University of Oslo explored a fascinating quantum question: What happens if you “truncate” a photon? While an elementary particle cannot literally be cut in half, its light pulse can be partially blocked or reshaped, creating unusual quantum states. Their findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal […]