NASA will simulate a test launch of its Artemis II mega moon rocket as early as Saturday (Jan. 31), with the space agency announcing its engineers are on track or ahead of schedule.
The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as Feb. 6,…
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The Turtle Bank: The last of these Asian turtle species find refuge in the Carolina pines
Deep in the coastal woods of South Carolina, behind high fences, guard dogs, and security cameras, is a group of people who know more about turtles than you. Posters and paintings of turtles and tortoises are plastered on every wall in the…
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Alfvén waves act as the power source behind Earth's auroral displays, research reveals
The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth’s atmosphere. While scientists have long understood this process, one big mystery remained: What powers the electric fields that accelerate…
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Why the weekend’s winter storm was supercharged by climate change
January 28, 2026
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Weekend winter storm that battered eastern U.S. was supercharged by climate change
A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, and that’s why last weekend’s winter storm dumped more snow,…
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Study reveals shrinking package sizes hide significant food inflation
A new study led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst economist shows that shrinking package sizes at U.S. grocery stores have played a hidden but important role in food inflation—though not in the way many consumers may think.
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Ryzen 9850X3D review: AMD’s bragging-rights gaming CPU gets more to brag about
Performance and power consumption
The first thing to notice about the 9850X3D is that its multi-core performance is essentially indistinguishable from the 9800X3D. If anything, the 9800X3D seems marginally better behaved…
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NASA Telescopes Spot Surprisingly Mature Cluster in Early Universe
A new discovery captures the cosmic moment when a galaxy cluster – among the largest structures in the universe – started to assemble only about a billion years after the big bang, one or two billion years earlier than previously thought….
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New ‘optical cavity’ can make million-qubit quantum computer network
Scientists in the United States have developed a new type of “optical cavity” that can efficiently collect single photons, the fundamental particle of light, from single atoms. These atoms act as the building blocks of a quantum computer by…
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Strength-in-numbers X-ray technique can map previously unattainable atomic structures
For many decades, the method to obtain atomic-level descriptions of chemical compounds and materials—be it a drug, a catalyst, or a commodity chemical—has been X-ray crystallography. This method has a known weakness: it requires one single,…
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Bandwidth-tuned Mott transition and superconductivity in moiré WSe2
Anderson, P. W. The resonating valence bond state in La2CuO4 and superconductivity. Science 235, 1196–1198 (1987).
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