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The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were ...

We’re at this tipping point” for AI in biology, Eran Segal, a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and a collaborator of Xing’s, told me. “All the stars aligned, and we have ...

The presence of microplastics in our food and soil has become a global-level crisis. A young girl named Anushka Sable has ...

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

"Astronomers will always assume a simple model unless there is overwhelming evidence that this simple model is flawed." ...

The 17 million members of the film fan app ranked Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi blockbuster the best movie of last year, but ...