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Mother-daughter duo discovers world’s largest coral colony in Australia

A mother-daughter diving team has stumbled upon what scientists believe is the world's largest documented coral colony while surveying Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The massive "elephant skin" coral stretches 364 feet across, roughly the size of a soccer field, creating what Jan Pope described as a "very surreal underwater landscape" resembling a "rolling meadow." Pope, a veteran diver with 35 years of...

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Futuristic gadgets: Top 7 movie devices engineers are bringing to life in the real world

Engineers are transforming iconic movie gadgets into reality, developing powered exoskeletons inspired by Iron Man's suit, medical scanners based on Star Trek's tricorder, and magnetic hoverboards from Back to the Future....

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'Revolutionary': Vera C. Rubin Observatory found 800,000 objects of interest in a single night

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory detected 800,000 astronomical objects in one night. This breakthrough enables early supernova detection, asteroid tracking, and spotting rare interstellar visitors for unprecedented research.

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New microrobot swarms use whirlpools to lift objects 45,000 times heavier

Researchers created magnetic microrobots that generate whirlpools to move objects 45,000 times heavier without touching them. These tiny robots could revolutionize manufacturing and medical treatments like clearing blocked...

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Giant 'spiderwebs' on Mars contain tiny egg-like structures that scientists 'can't quite explain,' NASA rover reveals

NASA's Curiosity rover found strange "spiderweb" rock formations on Mars created by ancient groundwater. These structures contain unexplained egg-like features that suggest Mars once had more water than scientists previously...

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ULA isn't making the Space Force's GPS interference problem any easier

ULA's Vulcan rocket suffered its second solid booster failure in less than two years during a February launch, prompting the Space Force to halt all future military missions on the vehicle pending a months-long investigation....

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New lithium battery chemistry with fluorinated electrolyte can help make longer-range EVs

Chinese scientists developed a breakthrough lithium battery technology using fluorinated hydrocarbon electrolytes that achieves 700 watt-hours per kilogram energy density at room temperature, nearly triple current commercial...

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Quantum computers go multi-dimensional as China-led team develops four-state photon gate

A research team from TU Wien and China developed a breakthrough quantum logic gate that enables quantum computers to process photons in four different states simultaneously, moving beyond traditional binary computing that only...

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Katharine Burr Blodgett made a breakthrough when she discovered ‘invisible glass’

Working alongside Nobel Prize winner Irving Langmuir at General Electric in the 1930s, scientist Katharine Burr Blodgett developed a groundbreaking technique for stacking ultra-thin molecular layers on glass surfaces. Through...

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A deafening nuclear fusion reactor: why you wouldn’t want to hear the sun

The sun generates massive sound from nuclear fusion reactions that would exceed 100 decibels if space contained air, comparable to chainsaws or rock concerts. More dangerously, the sun's low-frequency pressure waves resemble...

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You can't tie knots in four dimensions

Four-dimensional space contains an additional independent direction beyond our familiar three dimensions, similar to how time adds a fourth dimension to create space-time. In this higher-dimensional realm, traditional knots would...

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China claims breakthrough with world’s first ducted ton-class ‘flying saucer’ eVTOL

China demonstrated its first ton-class "flying saucer" eVTOL with enclosed rotors, lifting 992 pounds in three seconds. Priced under 2 million yuan, it targets logistics and rescue missions for 2026 commercialization.

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The Birth of Light

The James Webb Space Telescope is close to finding Population III stars, the universe's first stars made only of hydrogen and helium that created heavy elements before exploding as supernovas.

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Curiosity Closes In on Mars’ Giant Web-Like Ridges

NASA's Curiosity rover has captured detailed images of massive web-like ridge formations on Mount Sharp that reveal Mars had groundwater at high elevations for much longer than previously thought. These "boxwork" structures,...

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US: Bus-sized detector rules out sterile neutrino’s existence with 95% certainty

Fermilab's neutrino detector ruled out sterile neutrinos with 95% certainty, challenging the proposed fourth neutrino type that could explain experimental anomalies and dark matter.

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Scientists transform human waste into nutrient-rich soil for future space farms

Researchers from multiple universities successfully transformed simulated lunar and Martian soil into nutrient-rich farmland by treating it with recycled human waste processed through NASA's Bioregenerative Life Support Systems,...

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Apollo rocks reveal the Moon had brief bursts of super-strong magnetism

Oxford scientists resolved a decades-long debate about the Moon's magnetic field by reexamining Apollo rock samples and discovering that the Moon experienced only brief bursts of extremely strong magnetism lasting thousands of...

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Researchers unlock hidden dimensions inside a single photon

Physicists have developed techniques to shape individual photons across space and time, creating structured quantum light particles that can carry much more information than traditional photons. These engineered photons enable...

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What Happened to Molecular Manufacturing?

Sixty-five years ago, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman posed a whimsical question that launched a technological revolution: Why can't we write the entire Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of a pin? His 1959 lecture introduced the...

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This Is the Worst Thing That Could Happen to the International Space Station

Space debris traveling at 17,000 mph poses the greatest threat to the International Space Station, with puncture risks creating a 1-in-36 to 1-in-170 chance of catastrophic depressurization every six months. While small holes...

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6-meter catamaran 3D printed in 160 hours as monolithic open-water vessel

V2 Group and Caracol AM successfully 3D printed a 6-meter catamaran in 160 hours as a single monolithic structure designed for open-water use, marking a breakthrough toward industrial-scale boat manufacturing. This robotic...

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Astronomers spot a young sun blowing bubbles inside the Milky Way

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured the first image of a young sunlike star called HD 61005 blowing a protective bubble of hot gas around itself, located 120 light-years away. This 100-million-year-old star creates an...

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100V per drop: New perovskite cell converts rain and sunshine to electricity

Spanish researchers developed a revolutionary perovskite solar cell with an ultra-thin protective film that generates electricity from both sunshine and raindrops, producing 110 volts per raindrop through triboelectric...

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The second most powerful cosmic ray ever discovered may have come from a galaxy

Amaterasu, the second most powerful cosmic ray ever detected, was discovered in 2021 with mysterious origins that scientists are still trying to identify. A new study suggests the ultra-high-energy particle may have originated...

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