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"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space telescope."...
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"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space telescope."...
When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our space neighborhood....
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A cow in Austria has been observed using tools ― the first time such behavior has been recorded in cattle. Have we underestimated the gentle bovines all this time?...
Amazon's data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that's leaching metal from ores using microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon Web Services will be the first...
It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it's possible to do...
The first solar eclipse of the year will take place on Feb. 17, 2026....
Dr. Sue Hwang, a radiation oncologist, said her own experience with breast cancer helped her see vulnerability as a strength instead of a weakness. Tim Brown Oncologist Sue Hwang was diagnosed with br...
NASA's first moonshot with astronauts in more than a half-century is set to take place as soon as early February. The moon rocket moves to the pad this weekend at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, with ...
I am a student and co-founder of an accessibility startup. Balancing product development with exams broke my workflow, so I looked for a debugger. Mathematica Successūs is my attempt to model the "Sel...
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Is ageing a natural stage of life to be honoured or a biological flaw that humanity should overcome?...
NASA has ended Crew-11's space stay a few weeks early due to a "lingering risk" to an astronaut's health. The crew is now on its way back to Earth....
A major arctic blast is stretching from the Midwest to the Northeast, bringing dangerously cold weather to 43 million people....
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A cow in Austria has been observed using tools ― the first time such behavior has been recorded in cattle. Have we underestimated the gentle bovines all this time?...
Nature, Published online: 20 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00190-y The accuracy of eyewitness evidence is questioned, and a fossil collection examined when a geological society moves its London...
For decades researchers in northern Norway had tried to bring back vital kelp forests after overfishing damaged marine ecosystems. Now a simple solution is proving successful....
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