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Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Altadena residents continue to fear for the future of the area’s trees as new property owners clear their land and ...

Ho, ho, ho! It’s the holidays and what better way to kick off the season than with the annual lighting of New York’s very own Rockefeller Center Christmas tree? This year marks the 90th anniversary of ...

A team of Harvard physicists built the first-ever quantum computing machine that can operate continuously without restarting, achieving a major breakthrough in a field that could revolutionize ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. Land restoration in Burkina Faso’s Centre-Ouest and Kadiogo regions is women’s work. Here, women have made fertilizer trees their indispensable ...