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A New Type of Aurora Found on Saturn Resolves a Planetary...

The discovery of the first wind-driven aurora sheds light on a strange phenomenon playing out below Saturn’s stormy atmosphere.

Gene-Edited Brain Organoids Are Unlocking the Secrets of...

Harvard researchers used lab-grown clumps of neurons called organoids to reveal how three genes linked to autism affect the timing...

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Scientists Map the Dark Matter Web Surrounding the Milky...

A new simulation aims to determine whether the standard view of dark matter can explain how unique our galaxy’s neighborhood is.

Any Single Galaxy Reveals the Composition of an Entire...

In computer simulations, researchers have discovered that a neural network can infer the amount of matter in a whole universe by studying...

How Preserving Agave Could Help Save an Endangered Bat

Climate change and overgrazing are destroying the plants on which the Mexican long-nosed bat depends. Now, an initiative is trying...

The End Game of China’s Zero-Covid Policy Nightmare

As most of the world decides to live with the virus, China is doubling down on a strategy to crush it. But at what cost?

Researchers Want to Create 'Universal Donor' Lungs

An experiment to change the blood type of donated organs could be a first step to shortening transplant wait times.

Jacques Vallée Still Doesn’t Know What UFOs Are

After six globe-trotting decades spent probing “the phenomenon,” the French information scientist is sure of only one thing: The truth...

It Might Be Time to Take Methane Removal Seriously

An alarming spike in the second-most-damaging greenhouse gas is giving wind to a once fringe idea: Take it out of the air.

DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion

The Google-backed AI firm taught a reinforcement learning algorithm to control the fiery plasma inside a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.