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New global rules will see a carbon levy applied to emissions from shipping for the first time, but analysts say the package ...

Two independent research teams have developed methods for hacking noisy quantum computers based on a row-hammer attack, a ...

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On a faraway planet, James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by living ...

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It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion ...

A century since Werner Heisenberg changed the course of physics, five of the world's leading physicists examine the greatest ...

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Quantum effects like superposition and entanglement have long been seen in single particles, but physicists are on a quest to ...

Scientists have used an artificial circulatory system to create lab-grown chicken, which may improve its texture ...