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Metallic Cockroach Species Found Preserved in Unique Late Cretaceous Amber
Alienopterix santonicus was found preserved in a piece of ajkaite, a unique Late Cretaceous type of amber from western Hungary. “Cockroaches are o…
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Quantum Breakthrough Enables Building a Wormhole to Explore the Universe
A local wormhole is a physical system characterized by the no-cloning of information that mediates the action of an exchange-free quantum computer: l…
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Stunning Images of Rare Circular Sand Dunes Captured on Mars by NASA's MRO
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured stunning images of almost perfectly round sand dunes on the surface of the Red Planet. Whil…
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Reevaluating the Size of Dunkleosteus Terrelli: A Chunky Superpredator of the Devonian Period
Dunkleosteus terrelli, an armor-plated fish that lived in the shallow subtropical waters of the Devonian period, about 360 million years ago, is one …
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Triple Quasar Merger Results in 300 Billion Solar Mass Ultramassive Black Hole
Glimpsed only occasionally at the hearts of massive clusters of galaxies, ultramassive black holes are some of the largest and most elusive objects i…
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Controlling the State of Quantum Light could be the Key to Unlock New Frontiers in Science
The world we observe around us can be described according to the laws of classical physics, but once we observe things at an atomic scale, the strang…
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Retrocausality: Can the Present Affect the Past?
In 2022, the physics Nobel prize was awarded for experimental work showing that the quantum world must break some of our fundamental intuitions about…
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Scientists have unveiled the first complete map of an insect's brain
The comprehensive map, called a connectome, took 12 years of meticulous work to construct, and shows the location of all 3,016 neurons in the brain o…
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Astronomers Spotted Galaxy-scale Shock Waves in the Cosmic Web for the First Time
For the first time, astronomers have spotted enormous, galaxy-scale shock waves rattling the "cosmic web" that connects nearly all known …
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Breakthrough Study Confirms Hypothesis of Density Spike of Dark Matter Near Black Holes
For quite some time, there has been a proposition that a density spike of dark matter could develop around a black hole, but despite this theoretical…
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Photosynthesis May Rely on Quantum Mechanics for Near-Perfect Efficiency, New Study Suggests
Humans can't teleport or reside in multiple places at once — but the tiniest particles of matter can. These eerie quantum effects have tradition…
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What if the Universe Had Two Beginnings? The Implications of a Dark Big Bang
The Big Bang may have not been alone. The appearance of all the particles and radiation in the universe may have been joined by another Big Bang t…
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Physicists Observe Molecules Forming Through Quantum Tunneling for the First Time
Quantum mechanics allows particles due to their quantum mechanical wave properties to break through the energetic barrier (wall) and a reaction occur…
