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Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and collaborators have used simulations to show…
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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project and the National Science Foundation (NSF) will hold a press conference…
Astronomers used the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to make…
A team of engineers has built and tested a radically new kind of airplane wing,…
Reducing global air pollution can prevent millions of premature deaths according to an international team…
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A Yale-led team of researchers is doubling down on its earlier finding of a galaxy…
A study to be published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
A small asteroid has been caught in the process of spinning so fast it’s throwing…
New findings have emerged about five tiny moons nestled in and near Saturn’s rings. The…
When massive stars — many times larger than our Sun— are born, they shine hot…