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The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...

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A new digital system allows operations on a chip to run in parallel, so an AI program can arrive at the best possible answer ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

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A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.