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Machine learning reveals hidden components of X-ray pulses
Ultrafast pulses from X-ray lasers reveal how atoms move at timescales of a femtosecond. That’s a…
Incredible New Footage Captures Two Stars Colliding Like We’ve Never Seen Before
The aftermath of an epic collision involving at least one neutron star has been captured for the first…
An AI Just Independently Discovered Alternate Physics
Grab any physics textbook and you’ll find formula after formula describing how things wobble, fly, swerve…
AI tackles the challenge of materials structure prediction
Researchers have designed a machine learning method that can predict the structure of new materials with…
Massive undersea eruption filled atmosphere with water
Blast from Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in January could eat away at ozone layer, warm…
Predicting Earthquakes Two Days Earlier
Israeli researchers turned to the skies to predict earthquakes two days earlier, with 80 percent accuracy.…
Study draws new link between dopamine-based reward learning and machine learning
Past neuroscience and psychology research has repeatedly demonstrated the crucial role of rewards in how humans…
Physics Mystery Solved: Findings Could “Revolutionize” Our Understanding of Distance
A physics puzzle is resolved through a new duality. According to traditional thinking, distorting a flat…
Dietary Supplement Cuts Risk of Hereditary Cancer by 60%, Scientists Find
A trial spanning more than 20 years and almost 1,000 participants worldwide has found an important…
These Vaccines Will Take Aim at Covid—and Its Entire SARS Lineage
Scientists are developing vaccines to target the virus family that spawned Covid-19. Their efforts could thwart…
New Number Systems Point Geometry Problem Toward a Real Solution | Quanta Magazine
The Kakeya conjecture predicts how much room you need to point a line in every direction.…
Likely cause of mystery child hepatitis outbreak found
UK experts believe they can now explain the recent spate of mysterious liver problems in young…
A Painful Deadline Nears as Colorado River Reservoirs Run Critically Low
The federal government has told states to agree on urgent water cuts to ensure dams can…
James Webb Space Telescope’s stunning ‘Phantom Galaxy’ picture looks like a wormhole
The telescope is ‘new, different, and exciting’ for Judy Schmidt, who has been working with space…
James Webb telescope is so powerful, it detected water on a distant exoplanet
NASA’s James Webb space telescope is so powerful it can even detect water and other substances…
Black holes may die differently than we thought
New research motivated by string theory suggests possible, and equally strange, fates for evaporating black holes.…
Earth Has a 27.5-Million-Year ‘Heartbeat’, But We Have No Idea What Causes It
In the last 260 million years, dinosaurs came and went, Pangea split into the continents and…
“Chance of Impact 100%” – Fifth Asteroid Ever Discovered Before Impact
Most asteroids that have impacted Earth were discovered many years, often many millions of years, after…
We Finally Have a Genetic Link Between Ovarian Cancer And This Common Disorder
Scientists have found a genetic link and a potentially causal relationship between endometriosis and some types…