SCIENCE
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Quantum Computer Makes Random-Number Breakthrough
The allure of quantum computers is, at its heart, quite simple: by leveraging counterintuitive quantum effects, they could perform computational…
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Trump Administration’s Science Cuts Come for NSF Funding
Trump Administration’s Science Cuts Come for NSF Funding The National Science Foundation, which funds key science and engineering research, is…
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Offshore Wind Power Poses Only Limited Risk to Whales, Government Watchdog Report Finds
CLIMATEWIRE | Two years ago, Republican lawmakers asked Congress’ watchdog to scrutinize offshore wind’s impact on commercial fishing, marine navigation…
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This Robot Copies Life—By Decomposing
Picture a robot. What do you see? A rugged, steel-clad machine built to transcend living beings’ organic fragility? Unfortunately, this…
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Firing the Scientists Who Make Working Safe Is Foolish
Black lung is a cruel disease. Incurable, it scars and hardens lungs, makes breathing hurt and leads to tuberculosis, heart…
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Dennis Gaitsgory Wins Breakthrough Prize for Solving Part of Math’s Grand Unified Theory
The Langlands program has been described by mathematician Edward Frankel as the “grand unified theory of mathematics.” Conceived by Robert…
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Go Inside a Mexican Wolf Recovery Project Whose Future Is Now Uncertain
While filming Operation Wolf Foster, I witnessed firsthand the immense coordination needed to transport critically endangered Mexican wolf pups into…
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Is There a Plus Side to Mental Labor?
It’s Monday, and my alarm buzzes at 6:00 A.M. I groggily get up, already running through the day in my…
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As Starlink and Other Satellites Proliferate, Astronomers Learn to Manage Interference
In the next few months, from its perch atop a mountain in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will begin…
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Supersymmetry’s Long Fall from Grace
Supersymmetry, a theory that posits every known elementary particle has a heavier “superpartner” particle, has been the superstar of theoretical…
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