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Embryo-like fossils from Southern China offer new clues about ancient life
- Mar 29, 2026
Some of the most ancient fossils collected to date were traced back to the Ediacaran period. This is the time interval ranging from around 635 to 541...
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The moon that tipped a planet
- Mar 29, 2026
Neptune is the solar system's most distant planet, a cold, blue ice giant sitting nearly 30 times further from the sun than Earth. At that remote dist...
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A universal scheme can verify any quantum state
- Mar 29, 2026
Quantum technologies, devices that can process, store, or detect information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical devices...
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Seals use whisker movement to follow underwater trails—an approach that could improve robotic sensing
- Mar 29, 2026
Seals are carnivorous marine mammals that are well adapted to hunting for fish underwater, where visibility is poor. In such conditions, seals rely on...
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The JWST finds more overmassive black holes. This time in dwarf galaxies
- Mar 29, 2026
One of the things astronomers find when they look around at galaxies is a correlation between a galaxy's mass and the mass of its supermassive black h...
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Quadratic gravity theory reshapes quantum view of Big Bang
- Mar 29, 2026
Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earlies...
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Black hole mergers test the limits of general relativity
- Mar 29, 2026
General relativity stands as one of the bedrock theories in modern physics. Its strange view of relative time and space has been confirmed by countles...
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Climate change is altering Saharan dust—and Europe is downwind
- Mar 29, 2026
In recent years, residents of Spain, France and the UK have looked up to see an eerie sight: deep orange sunrises and skies thick with a yellowish haz...
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Researchers examine how AI chatbots are shaping government operations
- Mar 29, 2026
As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become more common across government, new research from the University at Albany's Center for Technology in Gove...
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How internal waves transport energy thousands of miles across the ocean
- Mar 29, 2026
Both winds and tides inject energy into the ocean. Much of that energy is then transported up to thousands of miles by internal waves: large-scale und...
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Revealing the origin of polarity inversion in polymer semiconductors
- Mar 28, 2026
A research team led by Prof. Boseok Kang at Sungkyunkwan University has uncovered the origin of polarity inversion, a long-standing phenomenon in poly...
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The Wired Belts are the new Rust Belts: Report ranks which jobs are most vulnerable
- Mar 28, 2026
Digital Planet, the research center at the forefront of researching the AI transformation at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, today released t...