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The gold and platinum that came from giant space rocks should have sunk into Earth’s core instead of rising to the crust. Scientists have now worked out how this happened

Thirty Years Later, a Speed Boost for Quantum Factoring

NASA’s Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters

Billions of crabs went missing around Alaska. Scientists now know what happened to them

Milestone: A particle accelerator on a chip

‘A Neolithic feat of engineering’: Orkney dig reveals ruins of huge tomb

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Orcas are learning terrifying new behaviors. Are they getting smarter?

Scientists Intercept Signal That Took 8 Billion Years to Reach Earth

We traced a powerful radio signal to the most distant source yet – a galaxy billions of lightyears away

How a solar eclipse threw a remote Utah town — and its Navajo workforce — into crisis

Martian caves could be key to colonizing the Red Planet

Could This Lawsuit Expose Banksy’s Identity?

A road trip to the edge of the Earth

Astronomers Link “Starquakes” to Mysterious Radio Signals From Space

Why NASA’s return to the Moon will likely succeed this time

Major Study Claims to Identify The Root Cause of Obesity: Fructose

‘It’s time for us to go’: the Mexican fishing village swallowed by the sea

Parasitic worm snatches its host’s genes to control its mind

The Political Assassination That Transformed Africa, the UN, and the CIA

Why it’ll be hard to tell if AI ever becomes conscious

The Quest to Quantify Quantumness

NASA tests new kind of Artemis moon-rocket engine in dramatic ‘hot fire’ test

If There Was Ever Life on Mars, this Ancient Mud Lake is the Perfect Place to Look

What Are the Loudest Animals in the World?

The role of the gut microbiome in causing Alzheimer’s disease has finally been confirmed

The Sahara Desert Grows Green Every 21,000 Years

Dawn of the Bathroom

Stench leads officials to 189 rotting corpses at taxidermist’s funeral home

Mathematicians Found 12,000 Solutions to the Notoriously Hard Three-Body Problem

The History of Precrime

NASA’s Webb Discovers New Feature in Jupiter’s Atmosphere

Why You Don’t Need to Rake the Leaves

Limbo in Tbilisi: On the Lives of Russian Expats Fleeing the Kremlin

What the first evidence of a spinning supermassive black hole means.

Panspermia theory dives under other worlds’ ocean ice crust

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Why Is Space So Dark Even Though The Universe Is Filled With Stars?

These Rare Daguerrotypes Are the Earliest Surviving Photos of Iran in the 1850s

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Revolutionary Bionic Hand Fuses With Woman’s Bones, Muscles, And Nerves

Deep asleep? You can still follow simple commands, study finds

Keju, China’s incredibly difficult civil service test, strengthened the state at the cost of freedom and creativity

Beyond the Myth of Rural America

Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta

‘I stopped counting how many friends died’: life after the contaminated blood scandal

The Botched Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer

Galactic archeology reveals Milky Way’s neighbor Andromeda has a violent past

The Villa Where a Doctor Experimented on Children

Earth’s Core Appears to Be Leaking In the Arctic and Scientists Don’t Know Why

Thirty years ago, astronomer Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn a passing space probe’s instruments on Earth to look for life

Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory

The zero-waste city: what Kiel in Germany can teach the world