A giant cloud of vaporized metal may be hiding a secret planet or second alien sun in a nearby star system, a new study reveals.
The mysterious cloud is up to 15,000 times wider than our planet, and made its home star almost completely disappear…

A giant cloud of vaporized metal may be hiding a secret planet or second alien sun in a nearby star system, a new study reveals.
The mysterious cloud is up to 15,000 times wider than our planet, and made its home star almost completely disappear…

A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted a manuscript for publication. Its centerpiece was an innocuous-looking equation that would alter science’s entire conception…

Researchers at Google DeepMind have unveiled their latest artificial intelligence tool and claimed it will help scientists identify the genetic drivers of disease and ultimately pave the way for new treatments.
AlphaGenome predicts how mutations…

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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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,…

Anderson, P. W. The resonating valence bond state in La2CuO4 and superconductivity. Science 235, 1196–1198 (1987).
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Google DeepMind unleashes new AI to investigate DNA’s ‘dark matter’
DeepMind’s AlphaGenome AI model could help solve the problem of predicting how variations in noncoding DNA shape gene…