July 23 (UPI) -- Physicists in Europe have managed to send light through a two-dimensional crystal layer, a breakthrough that provides a semiconducting platform for quantum computing.

July 23 (UPI) -- Storms are getting bigger and floods are getting worse as a result of climate change, according to a historic 120-year-old data set.

ORLANDO, Fla., July 23 (UPI) -- On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, 3D printing technology is changing the way rockets are made and the way Florida space companies do business.

July 22 (UPI) -- When do young people begin to see themselves as "adults?" New research suggests the onset of adulthood is predicted by college spending habits.

July 22 (UPI) -- Astronomers have for the first time directly measured the powerful magnetic fields surrounding hot Jupiters, gas-giant exoplanets orbiting close to their host stars.

July 22 (UPI) -- Astronomers have produced a new map of the Local Void, a large region of empty space surrounding the Milky Way galaxy.

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla., July 22 (UPI) -- Internet company OneWeb plans to begin launching 35 to 40 communications satellites a month in December, and has 27 Soyuz rocket missions lined up through European private launch company Arianespace to send them aloft.

July 22 (UPI) -- LightSail 2, a CubeSat developed by the Planetary Society, is preparing to deploy its solar sails. The miniature satellite, roughly the size of a toaster, will unfurl its sails at approximately 8:22 a.m. ET on Tuesday.

July 22 (UPI) -- India succeeded Monday on its second attempt at firing a rocket toward the moon.

EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 22 (UPI) -- Scientists across the country are scrambling to learn why monarch butterflies are disappearing at such an alarming rate as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service considers listing the butterfly as endangered.

July 21 (UPI) -- The original NASA videotapes of the Apollo 11 moon walk were auctioned off for $1.82 million on the 50th anniversary of the feat.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., July 20 (UPI) -- Kennedy Space Center in Florida marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with MoonPies, Corvettes and a visit from Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday.

July 20 (UPI) -- Scientists in Germany and the United States are considering a bold plan to pump millions of gallons of seawater into to a system of snow cannons installed across West Antarctica in order to save its ice sheet.

July 20 (UPI) -- NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, Luca Parmitano of ESA and Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos blasted off from Kazakhstan to travel to the International Space Station on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.

July 19 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump praised the 1969 moon-landing mission as "one of the great achievements" in U.S. history in an Oval Office meeting with Apollo 11 astronauts.

July 19 (UPI) -- Most of the science looking at gender among mammals has focused on physiological differences, but new research suggests many outward-facing differences -- like height and facial hair -- are rooted in gene expression.