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Astronomers have uncovered a powerful cosmic outlier that may hold clues to the Milky Way’s long-term fate. At the heart of a massive spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away, researchers have detected one of the most intense examples…

For centuries, people have wondered how humans differ from other primates, particularly in terms of brain characteristics.

Recent scientific advancements suggest that some neural pathways in humans function with unique connections not seen in…

For centuries, people have wondered how humans differ from other primates, particularly in terms of brain characteristics.

Recent scientific advancements suggest that some neural pathways in humans function with unique connections not seen in…

On Episode 153 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Robert Zubrin, founder and president of The Mars Society, about making real, actionable plans to send a…

With the promise of revolutionizing our view of nearby star systems, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is poised to do something no ground-based observatory has done before: detect potential signs of life on a planet orbiting the closest star…

Often imagined as the crown jewel of future megastructures, a Dyson swarm—an orbiting fleet of solar collectors around the Sun—has long been considered a potential key to unlocking interstellar-scale energy. But a new scientific study…

In a discovery that brings a legendary quantum theory to life, physicists at Princeton University have directly observed Hofstadter’s butterfly — a fractal pattern in electron energy levels that was first predicted in 1976 but had never…

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