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Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time
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Universities should judge quantum-computing investments by what students learn – Physics World
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Next-Gen Gravitational Wave Detectors Could Spot the First Black Holes
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Auckland has an overlooked traffic pollution problem – and it’s not from exhausts
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NASA Restarts Swift Telescope as It Slowly Falls Toward Earth
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Meet Rachel Chen, the 18-year-old Los Angeles student who expanded a 1997 quantum-math idea to describe entire particle systems with simple diagrams; she won $100,000
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The Space Review: The 1962 Iowa Summer Study
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Rising sea levels need to be ‘accounted for’ in plans for Cork’s future, new UCC study says
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About 70 young stars sit inside one dark knot of gas in the Carina Nebula: ESA’s Webb Picture of the Month for August 2026 shows the Treasure Chest globule, 7,500 light years off, lit by a 19-solar-mass O-type star
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Cling film helps stamp two-dimensional materials onto patterned surfaces – Physics World
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