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Data and images from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover reveals that recently discovered rocks in Jezero

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A research team led by Nanjing University has introduced a transparent, colorless, and unidirectional solar

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An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located

Researchers from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands have been able to see the

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The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung

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Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using

More than 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, allowing scientists to explore

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In a new study, scientists at the University of Missouri looked deep into the universe

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Quantum networks are often described as the future of the internet — but instead of

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An internationally joint research group between Singapore and Japan has unveiled a blueprint for arranging

A research team from the University of Basel, Switzerland, has developed a new molecule modeled

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The ATLAS Collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson

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Optical microscopy is a key technique for understanding dynamic biological processes in cells, but observing

Physicists have developed a breakthrough concept in quantum encryption that makes private communication more secure

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Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu

A look into the throat of an active galaxy reveals a ring-shaped magnetic field that

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has directly observed magnetic reconnection in the Sun’s atmosphere for the

Researchers taking the first-ever direct measurement of atom temperature in extremely hot materials inadvertently disproved

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University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence that a nearby white dwarf is in

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NASA’s largest interplanetary probe tested its radar during a Mars flyby. The results include a

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MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in

Neutrinos are extremely elusive elementary particles. Day and night, 60 billion of them stream from

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is tough on electronics. Situated inside a 17-mile-long tunnel that

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Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than

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Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Radioactive decay is a fundamental process in nature by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses

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International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form

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Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for

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A team of scientists has developed a powerful new way to detect subtle magnetic signals

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever

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Researchers at The University of Osaka have developed a novel method for generating ultrahigh magnetic

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever

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Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a

A new kind of cosmic object could help solve one of the universe’s greatest mysteries:

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured

In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the

Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds —

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Researchers from Penn and Arizona State University pinpoint a lone five-particle package (a 5-plet) that

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Using nuclear magnetic resonance, researchers at ETH Zurich have studied the atomic environments of single

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For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end

Imaging data from Japan’s Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully used to monitor

Quantum computers have the potential to speed up computation, help design new medicines, break codes,

Signs of planet formation may appear earlier than expected around still-forming baby stars, according to

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The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first “mega” images

The pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu returned by the Hayabusa2 mission on December 6, 2020,

Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles — a ‘mini halo’ — surrounding

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Scientists from TU Delft (The Netherlands) have observed quantum spin currents in graphene for the

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For decades, quantum computers that perform calculations millions of times faster than conventional computers have

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia.

Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings

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Mass General Brigham researchers have developed a new AI tool in collaboration with the United

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The chemical reaction to produce hydrogen from water is several times more effective when using

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first

A team of researchers at Rice University have discovered a surprisingly simple method for vastly

Colorado State University researchers have published a paper in Science that describes a new and

MIT researchers have designed a compact, low-power receiver for 5G-compatible smart devices that is about

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, the world urgently needs clean and

Researchers can now observe the phonon dynamics and wave propagation in self-assembly of nanomaterials with

Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10

No matter which questions we ask an AI, the model will come up with an

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new cooling technology that

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A USC-led research team has created a series of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky Way

An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves towards a better

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Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter

A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy

An international team of astronomers has trained a neural network with millions of synthetic simulations

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi

In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud

Astronomers have surveyed massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way, in

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and

A Danish-German research collaboration with participation of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) aims to develop new

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Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s CODEX (Coronal Diagnostic Experiment) investigation have successfully evaluated the instrument’s

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Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the

Each year, more than 1.2 billion smartphones are produced globally. The production of electronic devices

One of the current hot research topics is the combination of two of the most

Using advanced computational modelling, a research team led by the University of Oxford, working in

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Hailed as one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, transistors are integral components

Quantum materials exhibit remarkable emergent properties when they are excited by external sources. However, these

A new type of mRNA vaccine is more scalable and adaptable to continuously evolving viruses

Nitrates in the atmosphere reduce air quality and play an important role in climate change.

A new study by Emory University researchers, published Thursday in Environmental Science & Technology, found

Decarbonizing Australia’s economy and protecting the country’s most critical natural resources are both possible but

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of