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Mars may not have hurricanes, but its winds are relentless. Over millions of years, they’ve acted like a natural sandblaster, sculpting huge ridges called yardangs into the Martian surface. The Mars Express mission recently captured some of…

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• Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks.

• But there are…

A new study has revealed that microgravity reshapes the brain, causing it to shift within the skull, stretching and compressing in ways that affect balance and motor function. The findings, published in the journal PNAS, show that on Earth,…

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human brain?

Outside of the theory itself being devised by conscious humans using their brains, there’s scant reason to…

Engineers from MIT say that stacking circuit components on top of each other could be the answer to creating more energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) chips. The logic and memory components, which respectively perform computations and…

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