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KeysQuestions4Explore4 Sandia’s Z Machine is the most powerful X-ray source on Earth, and the lab wants to build…

Paul McCartney, PC: Wikipedia Paul McCartney is among hundreds of public figures backing a new international campaign calling…

Caves under the Nullarbor Plain could hold the answer to finding life on Mars, according to new research.…

Australians love watching whales from tourist boats that follow humpbacks off the east coast or spying on southern…

On Sept. 27, 1997, NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission beamed its very last data transmission back to Earth. Pathfinder…

Conceptual illustration of an integrated quantum photonic circuit in which diamond nanobeams containing quantum emitters and spins are…

Yes jellyfish can sting when they’re dead, says Peter Richardson, and it’s down to the fact that a…

An enormous, ongoing cosmic “fart” is causing a mysterious zombie star to flare up repeatedly, shining bright pulses…

So what if a river has too little or too much water? When rivers rise too quickly and…

The path to Jupiter’s moons, which scientists believe could harbor conditions friendly for sustaining life, is long and…

Understanding the quantum dynamics of far-from-equilibrium open many-body systems is a major frontier in physics. From a fundamental…

Fins may be the best-known part of a shark to food lovers, but Japanese companies are trying to…

A 20-foot vacuum chamber in Albuquerque takes 26 million amps from 2,160 capacitors in about 100 billionths of a second, around 200 times a year, each shot shaking the ground like a small earthquake, and the lab that runs it wants one 10 times bigger