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Dark matter can’t be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests. We have an abundance of evidence that something fishy is happening…
Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have — for the first time — imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars, and the tiny pebbles…
New proteins not found in nature have now been designed to counteract certain highly poisonous components of snake venom. The deep learning, computational methods for developing these toxin-neutralizing proteins offer…
One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise disappearance, and now, a precarious spinning act. The black hole…
In the same way that ChatGPT understands human language, a new AI model developed by Columbia computational biologists captures the language of cells to accurately predict their activities. Using a…
Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter’s clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice — the conventional…
NASA wants to get Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an…
Photon-avalanching nanosensors access previously unreachable environments and could disrupt technologies from robotics to cellular biophysics and medicine to space travel Mechanical force is an essential feature for many physical and…
The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to “touch the sun” on Christmas Eve. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after…
The spacecraft made the closest ever flyby if the sun on Christmas Eve, but it’s been silent since Dec. 20. On the heels of a NASA spacecraft’s historic close flyby…
Rice University research findings have ‘significant implications for habitability’ A new study explores how variations in Mars’ crustal thickness during its ancient history may have influenced the planet’s magmatic evolution…
A team of international scientists has unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar…
New observations reveal the challenges of detecting planetary atmospheres Recent measurements with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cast doubt on the current understanding of the exoplanet Trappist-1 b’s nature.…
A new class of magnetism called altermagnetism has been imaged for the first time in a new study. The findings could lead to the development of new magnetic memory devices…