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In a stunning breakthrough that challenges long-held assumptions in quantum physics, a team of researchers from the University of Innsbruck has managed to create a Schrödinger’s cat state at temperatures far warmer than previously thought…

Astronomers have found the clearest evidence yet that life might exist beyond the solar system, from the atmosphere of a planet 124 light years away from Earth, setting off rare excitement – tinged with caution – in the global scientific…

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Investors have ploughed billions of dollars into the quest to send earthlings into the stars. Astronomers’ discovery…

According to NASA, an asteroid named 2011 VG9, approximately 390 feet wide is approaching Earth at a speed of 85,520 km/h and is set to pass by the planet on April 16. Belonging to the Apollo class of asteroids, 2011 VG9 is set to pass by the…

Scientists who found an ancient insect enveloped in 16-million-year-old amber in the Dominican Republic say it is the first-ever fossil of a dirt ant (a group of ants) from the Caribbean.

The long-extinct species, named Basiceros enana, measures…

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The nature of dark matter has confounded scientists for decades, but a new development could help resolve this mystery within the next 15 years.

Researchers have developed an “axion quasiparticle” that could become the basis of a cosmic car radio…

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