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Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab found no evidence of a hypothetical fourth flavor of neutrino ...

A group of researchers wants to make the study of UFOs an academic discipline. Experts call them unidentified anomalous ...

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Scientific American’s staffers may spend their days embedded in real-world science discoveries, but their nights are often ...

Core Scientific is reinventing itself—fast—and one major investor just made a bold bet on where that pivot leads.

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