Five ways the universe could end
With dark energy, our observable horizon grows ever smaller with time, despite the increasing size…
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Skull long thought to be Cleopatra’s sister’s was actually a young boy
Scientists have demonstrated that an ancient human skull excavated from a tomb at Ephesos was…
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Getting an all-optical AI to handle non-linear math
The problem is that this cascading requires massive parallel computations that, when done on standard…
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Did Hilma af Klint draw inspiration from 19th century physics?
Making the case Young and af Klint were not contemporaries; Young died in 1829, and…
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Rocket Report: China launches refueling demo; DoD’s big appetite for hypersonics
Relativity's value seems to be plummeting. For several years, an innovative, California-based launch company named…
Man turns irreversibly gray from an unidentified silver exposure
When an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong was admitted to a hospital for a condition…
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Everyone agrees: 2024 the hottest year since the thermometer was invented
Lining up the baselines shows that these different services largely agree with each other, with…
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Coal likely to go away even without EPA’s power plant regulations
A backstop That said, the team behind the analysis argues that, depending on other factors,…
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Here’s what we know, and what we don’t, about the awful Palisades wildfire
Let's start with the meteorology. The Palisades wildfire and other nearby conflagrations were well-predicted days…
A taller, heavier, smarter version of SpaceX’s Starship is almost ready to fly
This means SpaceX will break its own record for launching the largest and most powerful…