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Mathematicians Just Debunked the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by...

How to Create a Future of Cheap Energy for All

Kraftwerk Berlin, the venue for the Energy Tech Summit with Octopus Energy, offered delegates a powerful lesson...

How Trump Could Actually Increase Fossil Fuel Production

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.During his campaign, president-elect...

Refurbished heart pacemakers work like new

Meghan Rosen is a staff writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

Ancient Central Americans built a massive fish-trapping system

Starting around 4,000 years ago, an elaborate fish-trapping system nourished expanding human populations in lowland Central America,...

Why Is It So Tricky to Show the Sun, Earth, and Moon in a Diagram?

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives....

Satellite space junk might wreak havoc on the stratosphere

Earth’s space junk may be wreaking havoc on the stratosphere. The rapid surge in satellite megaconstellations is...

Scientists identify a long-sought by-product of some drinking water treatments

Roughly one-third of Americans could be exposed to a long-sought, newly identified breakdown product of some chlorine-based...

For adult chimps, playing may be more important than previously thought

You are never too old to play — a maxim that even adult chimpanzees seem to follow....

This is the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy

For the first time, scientists have captured a zoomed-in photo of a star outside of our Milky...

Mars’ potato-shaped moons could be the remains of a shredded asteroid

Mars’ moons could be the remains of an ill-starred asteroid that got too close to the Red...

Here’s why turning to AI to train future AIs may be a bad idea

ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and other AI tools whip up impressive sentences and paragraphs from as little as...
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