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Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin,...

A Tanker Collision Threatens One of the UK’s Most Important Coastlines

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.An oil tanker carrying jet fuel...

Wildfires Are One of Hurricane Helene’s Lasting Legacies

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

Measles is spreading. Here’s what experts say you should know

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...

Narwhals may use their iconic tusks to play

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...

The Blue Ghost lander just witnessed a lunar eclipse — from the moon

The privately-owned Blue Ghost moon lander, built by Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace, has captured rare views...

Can’t Wrap Your Head Around Pi? Here’s a Cool Visual to Help

Happy Pi Day! We celebrate pi on March 14 because 3-14 gives the first three digits of...

Dark coats may have helped the earliest mammals hide from hungry dinosaurs

Zebra stripes? Leopard print? Neither were in vogue among the earliest mammals during the Age of Dinosaurs....

These ancient Maya puppets may have been used in rituals

Five oddly expressive clay figurines, made on the edge of the Maya world about 2,400 years ago,...

A new iron compound hints ‘primordial’ helium hides in Earth’s core

Scientists have coaxed one of the universe’s most stubborn elements into a new compound. Formed under intense...

Covid Vaccines Have Paved the Way for Cancer Vaccines

Lennard Lee, a UK National Health Service oncologist and medical director at the Ellison Institute of Technology...

A quantum computing milestone is immediately challenged by a supercomputer

The tug-of-war between quantum computers and classical computers is intensifying. In just minutes, a special quantum processor,...
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