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Light-Matter Particles Could Revolutionize AI Computing
Penn scientists may have found a way to power future AI with exotic light-matter particles instead of electrons....
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Lina Chen
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Scientists Found a Quantum Key to See Through Any Mess
Researchers from the Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, the Kastler Brossel Laboratory and the University of Glasgow have developed an innovative method that renders a scattering medium transparent solely for information carried by entangled photon pairs, while the same medium remains completely op...
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Turns Out Cows Know Exactly Who You Are, And Your Voice Too
Cows are not necessarily known for their intelligence, but that less-than-stellar reputation is beginning to change. A 13-year-old pet cow in Austria named Veronika uses brooms to scratch her back, which qualifies as a form of tool use. Tool use is considered a general marker for intelligence in ani...
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A Ghost Shark and a Worm in a Glass Castle: Meet 1,000+ New Ocean Species
The third year of a global Ocean Census has revealed 1,121 potentially new-to-science marine species, including a worm that lives inside a “glass castle,” a ghost shark, and a carnivorous sponge. The Ocean Census, launched in April 2023, aims to discover and describe marine life “at speed and at sca...
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NASA's Psyche Snaps Mars' Craters, Proving Wind Does More Than Annoy
This view of the Martian surface, captured by NASA's Psyche spacecraft on May 15, 2026, shows streaks that have formed due to wind blowing over impact craters in the Syrtis Major region. The image scale is nearly 1,200 feet (360 meters) per pixel. The wind streaks extend to about 30 miles (50 k...
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A US Company Claims It Just Hatched Chicks in an Artificial Egg
Nic Rawlence, University of Otago/ The ConversationToday’s announcement by Texas-based de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences about a successful hatching of chicks from an artificial egg would represent a major innovation, if the claims can be verified.The company says its artificial egg support...
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Ancient Mega-Floods Once Ripped Across Mars and Left This Giant Scar
Ancient floods once ripped across Mars, carving the massive Shalbatana Vallis channel and reshaping the planet’s surface. New Mars Express images reveal a chaotic landscape of craters, lava, and collapsed terrain that may hold clues to a lost Martian ocean....
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Astrophysicist Alex Filippenko awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize for work on supernovae - Berkeley News
UC Berkeley supernova and black hole expert Alex Filippenko will share the 2026 Gruber Cosmology Prize, which was announced today (May 19) by the Gruber Foundation. The prize, one of the most prestigious awards for research on the origin and fate of the universe, comes with $500,000 to be shared equ...
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NASA's New Space Telescope Is About to Hunt for Hidden Planets and Dark Energy
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could soon begin an epic search for alien worlds, dark matter, and never-before-seen cosmic mysteries....
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T. Rex's Tiny Arms Weren't Just a Quirk. They Were an Evolutionary Choice.
Tyrannosaurus rex is iconic for its ferocity and big teeth, as well as those teeny-tiny arms. The Cretaceous Period apex predator wasn’t the only carnivore with underdeveloped forelimbs, however. At least five groups of two-legged, mostly meat-eating theropod dinosaurs experienced a shortening of th...
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The Dodo's Back? Scientists Just Hatched Chicks in Artificial Eggs.
Colossal Biosciences, a Texas company trying to bring extinct species back to life, reports creating artificial eggs that would be necessary to revive extinct birds such as the dodo....
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Plants Have a Genetic Superpower That Lets Them Survive the Apocalypse
Many plants, including many species of bananas, have more than two sets of chromosomes. This can make the species more resilient to major environmental catastrophe, researchers find. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket/Getty Images hide...
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Japan's Unique Physics Field: A Matter of Name, Not Just Science
The middle of the twentieth century was a period of significant scientific advancement, particularly in the realm of physics. Within this rapidly changing landscape, academic disciplines emerged and evolved to keep pace with scientific discoveries. The new subdiscipline of solid-state physics gained...
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A strange ripple in spacetime could be the first fingerprint of dark matter
Black holes crashing together may be revealing clues about dark matter hidden across the universe. Physicists created a new model predicting how dark matter could subtly distort gravitational waves produced during black hole mergers. When they tested the method on real LIGO data, one signal stood ou...
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Homo erectus may have passed a genetic legacy down to modern humans after all
Sally Christine Reynolds, Bournemouth University/ The ConversationFor most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs. Each species of human relative (hominin) was a neat, single branch.As an undergraduate, I was taught that Homo...
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Scientists Challenge a Long-Held Belief About Why Human Childbirth Is So Difficult
A new study suggests that difficult childbirth is not exclusive to humans....
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Scientists Uncover Hidden Biological Differences Between Men and Women’s Immune Systems
A massive single-cell study has revealed hidden genetic differences in male and female immune systems that may shape disease risk in unexpected ways....
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Mars' Atmosphere Just Got a Little Weirder, Thanks to a 'Wiggle'
In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected — observations of an atmospheric effect never before seen in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. Using instruments aboard NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission, scientists identified a ...
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The World's First AI Particle Collider Will Process Half a Million Collisions Per Second
Five hundred thousand times per second, the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will record a collision. At that rate, machine learning will sort, filter, and reconstruct what’s happening inside the detector. That requirement shaped the entire facility’s design. The collider being built at Brookhaven Nation...
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Neanderthals Were Eating Shellfish Thousands of Years Before Us
For decades, many paleoarchaeologists believed Neanderthals went extinct largely because they just weren’t intelligent enough to compete with their Homo sapien relatives. However, mounting historical evidence suggests this was far from the case. The latest discovery to help the Neanderthal’s reputat...
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