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In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1,…

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Plant materials and growth conditions The hot1 mutant was isolated from an ethyl methanesulfonate-mutagenized M2 population of the…

Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet about twice Earth’s size just 25 light-years away, orbiting in the habitable…

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Researchers at McGill University have developed a new quantum device that generates tiny sound-like particles called phonons at…

Picture the most savage stretch of ocean on the planet. Waves up to 60 feet high in the…

The Artemis II mission to the Moon has reignited humanity’s desire for exploration and renewed our perspective of…

Some of the most massive galaxies in the Universe appear to be missing a lot of stars. That…

A predawn Moon-and-planets meetup, a returning comet, a great chance to see the Milky Way, and Saturn’s rings…

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Rocket Lab’s $8 billion Iridium deal gives the space company something that cannot be built overnight: a global…

In 2024, engineers rescued Voyager 1 after it spent months transmitting gibberish, remotely rewriting and relocating pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip from more than 24 billion kilometres away.