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'Perhaps it's only a matter of time': Intelligent life may be much more likely than first thought, new model suggestsFor decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time.
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Euclid telescope spots rare 'Einstein ring' hiding near Earth — and an ancient, unnamed galaxy behind itEinstein predicted the existence of gravitationally-warped rings of light in 1915. Now, a new one has been discovered just a cosmic stone's throw from our own planet.
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Most energetic neutrino ever found on Earth detected at the bottom of the Mediterranean SeaPhysicists have detected the highest-energy 'ghost particle' ever felt on Earth, with nearly 100 times more energy than any neutrino previously detected.
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Stunning, rainbow-colored object spotted by James Webb telescope could be an alien solar system in the makingThe James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around it, astronomers hope to better understand how solar systems like our own take shape.
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Alaska's ice is melting in front of our eyes, staggering satellite shots showUnusual weather patterns and climate change have been driving stark changes in the northwestern state. Now, new satellite images show the extent of this transformation.
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Why is DeepSeek such a game-changer? Scientists explain how the AI models work and why they were so cheap to build.DeepSeek's V3 and R1 models took the world by storm this week. Here's why they're such a big deal.
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New wonder material designed by AI is as light as foam but as strong as steelThe new technique could produce materials for use in helicopters, airplanes and spacecraft.
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Alibaba claims its AI model trounces DeepSeek and OpenAI competitorsChinese cloud giant Alibaba says that its Qwen2.5-Max artificial intelligence model outperformed its rivals at OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek.
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Asteroid Bennu contains the 'seeds of life,' OSIRIS-REx samples revealScientists have found all five nucleobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu.
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Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months. Silicon Valley is freaked out.DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning model made by Chinese researchers, completes tasks with a comparable proficiency to OpenAI's o1 at a fraction of the cost.
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Mysterious 'ice balls' in space baffle astronomersAstronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.
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Potentially deadly 'chirping waves' detected in baffling location near Earth, and scientists are stumpedChorus waves are mysterious, chirping signals produced by spiraling plasma inside our planet's magnetic field. But a new detection suggests scientists may understand less about them than first thought.
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'Our model of cosmology might be broken': New study reveals the universe is expanding too fast for physics to explainAstronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.
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'Spooky' quantum entanglement discovered inside individual protons for 1st time everPhysicists have long-suspected that the building blocks of protons experienced quantum entanglement. Now, researchers have the first direct evidence — after using a trick to infer subatomic particles' entropy.
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Schrödinger's Cat breakthrough could usher in the 'Holy Grail' of quantum computing, making them error-proofErrors in quantum computers are an obstacle for their widespread use. But a team of scientists say that, by using an antimony atom and the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment, they could have found a way to stop them.
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China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than 'all the oil on Earth'China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using the nation's brand-new heavy lift rockets.
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2024 was the hottest year on record, and the 1st to breach the 1.5 C global warming limit, data revealsScientists have warned that the Paris Agreement to limit global warming will likely be breached as data reveals 2024 was the hottest year in human history.
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New NASA robot with X-ray vision will watch Earth 'breathing' from the moonNASA's LEXI instrument is set to land on the moon's surface sometime this month. Using X-ray sensors, the device will watch Earth's atmosphere "breathing out and breathing in" to uncover key space weather mysteries.
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NASA and Japan launch world's 1st wooden satellite into orbit. Here's why it could help solve a huge problem for our planet.NASA and Japan's space agency (JAXA) have officially launched the world's first wooden satellite into Earth orbit. The magnolia wood LignoSat is an attempt to make space junk biodegradable, potentially solving the growing problem of orbital debris.
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10 amazing technology developments in 2024From strange drone-fueled UFO sightings to supersonic maglev trains, technology has had a busy year. Here are our top 10 tech stories of 2024.
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10 mind-blowing black hole discoveries from 2024From missing links, to primordial beginnings, to extremely powerful plasma jets that could be shaping our universe in mysterious ways, here are the top 10 black hole discoveries that blew our minds this year.
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'There's no real competitor': Theoretical physicist Marika Taylor on how black holes could help us to find a theory of everythingString theory remains our best candidate for a theory of everything, but where can it be tested? By studying black holes, says Marika Taylor.
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Our sun may be overdue for a 'superflare' stronger than billions of atomic bombs, new research warnsObservations made using a new method have revealed that sun-like stars produce cataclysmic superflares once every hundred years. Could our sun create one soon?
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James Webb telescope confirms we have no idea why the universe is growing the way it isAstronomers can't agree how fast our cosmos is expanding. A new James Webb Space Telescope study has made the crisis even worse.
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