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An AI-based system succeeds in planning and carrying out real-world chemistry experiments, showing the potential to help human scientists make more discoveries, faster. In less…
Landmark CERN experiment may help explain why antimatter seemingly lost out in the early universe. If you dropped antimatter, would it fall down or up?…
Radio telescope observations of Milky Way pulsars reveal spacetime distortions likely caused by enormous gravitational waves rolling through everything in existence You can’t see or…
Radio emissions originating about 12 light-years outside our solar system reveal possible magnetic interactions between star YZ Ceti and its prospective close-orbiting, rocky planet. Researchers…
Smoke Particles From Wildfires Can Erode the Ozone Layer MIT chemists show the Australian wildfires widened the ozone hole by 10 percent in 2020. A…
Gemini North Telescope on Hawaii reveals first dormant, stellar-mass black hole. Astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to Earth, the first unambiguous detection of…
Data come from an expedition using the underwater robot Icefin under remote Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. The rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica…
A significant discovery about the mechanisms by which plants open and close their stomata could lead to new methods of protecting crops from the effects…
The study reveals cosmic rays are driving galaxies’ winds An important new hint regarding how galaxies halt intense episodes of star formation has been found…
A new study has identified the cause of the lake’s water loss. In the last 25 years, the Salton Sea, California’s most polluted inland lake, has…
Evidence of a first-generation star that died in a “super-supernova” explosion is discovered by Gemini’s observation of a far-away quasar. The ancient chemical remains of…
The flash is one of the most energetic short-duration gamma-ray bursts ever observed. For the first time, researchers have captured millimeter-wavelength light from an intense…
The hormone seems to help animals quickly switch between prosocial and antisocial behaviors. According to a recent animal study, testosterone may encourage males to be…
A new method beheads PFAS, causing it to break down into benign end products. The term “forever chemicals” refers to a group of manufactured chemicals…
A geology professor at the University of South Florida has uncovered the influence of the industrial boom on global warming. The early 1900s were a…
Research reveals that partisan views have biological roots. According to the largest study of its type, brain scans of individuals obtained as they engaged in…
According to recent research, wild fish cannibalism is uncommon. Even though mosquitofish and guppies are known to be cannibalistic in captivity, it is very improbable that…
A cave inside Huntsville’s city was discovered to contain a small, rare crayfish that was previously believed to be extinct. A team led by an…