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A dwarf galaxy just might upend the Milky Way’s predicated demise

It may come down to a coin toss as to whether the Milky Way collides with the...

Lotions and perfumes affect the air near our skin

Personal care products influence the chemistry of the air swirling around us. Lotion and perfume disrupt chemical...

A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person

Brain-computer-interface startup Paradromics today announced that surgeons successfully inserted the company’s brain implant into a patient and...

How to Make AI Faster and Smarter—With a Little Help from Physics

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.When she was 10 years old, Rose Yu...

Analysts Say Trump Trade Wars Would Harm the Entire US Energy Sector, From Oil to Solar

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The Trump...

How luna moths grow extravagant wings

For the first time, biologists have linked the ribbony “tails” streaming from big, green luna moths’ hind...

Venus’ tectonics may be actively reshaping its surface

Things may be moving on Venus’ surface. In 1983, researchers discovered that the planet’s surface was speckled...

Is Using a Stair Machine the Same as Climbing Stairs?

You can get a great workout by walking up the stairs in a tall building. The only...

Males of this ancient human cousin weren’t always bigger than females

An ancient, distant human cousin from southern Africa called Paranthropus robustus has for the first time revealed...

Students’ mental health imperiled by $1 billion cuts to school funding

Four-year-old Elijah’s task was to draw a penguin, his favorite animal, and then rip up the paper...

Genetics might save the rare, elusive saola — if it’s not already extinct

It’s not looking good for the saola. If it still exists, it is one of the world’s...

The Plan to Send Plant-Filled ‘Gardens’ Into Orbit

It looks like some kind of seed pod or pine cone caught mid-explosion. At the center, there’s...
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