A new record for maintaining plasma burning inside a fusion reactor has been set in France, beating China’s previous benchmark by 25%.
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Linguists give the lowdown on whether it is possible to forget your native language.
The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system’s comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse.
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At Kruger National park, a wildlife photographer spotted a giraffe covered in hundreds of skin lesions that may be caused by a rare bovine papillomavirus.
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Greenland’s ice sheet has been losing a staggering amount of ice at an accelerating rate. A tipping point could come by the turn of the next century, a new study warns.
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Chinese scientists have announced details on the upcoming China Space Station Telescope (CSST), a cutting-edge observatory that will rival the JWST.
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Protoclone, an eerily lifelike humanoid robot built for home use, has left social media users aghast. And it’s likely to be the first of many.
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Environments are littered with the DNA of the creatures that inhabit them. Analyzing it could provide a real-time view of how our planet is changing.
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The Savonoski Crater is a round hole in Alaska’s Katmai National Park that has defied scientific explanation ever since it was discovered.
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How black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy’s prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which reveals 300 potential ‘missing link black holes’, could help to unravel it.
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