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Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...

Claims that one quantum computer is better than another rest on terms like quantum advantage or quantum supremacy, ...

Record-breaking ocean temperatures have caused widespread bleaching and death among warm-water corals, which could have ...

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency to get more disordered. Now this idea might finally be testable ...

For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we ...

The strong nuclear force may abruptly loosen its grip on the fundamental particles that make up matter at a special “critical ...

Redwing, a robotic submarine about the size of a surfboard, is embarking on a five-year journey that will follow the famed ...

The longevity of naked mole rats may partly be due to them having a variant of a key protein that boosts DNA repair – a ...

Older men are more likely to pass on disease-causing mutations to their children because of the faster growth of mutant cells ...