Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) One of the quietest revolutions of our current century has been the entry of quantum mechanics into our
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The AI research paper was real. The “co-author” wasn’t
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) David Cox, the co-director of a prestigious artificial intelligence lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was scanning an online computer science bibliography in
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One of the first known black holes is more massive than once thought
Astronomers might need to adjust their expectations for black holes. According to the New York Times, an international research team has determined that Cygnus X-1,
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A ferret is the first North American endangered animal to be cloned
Animal cloning might just become a valuable tool in preserving species that might otherwise go extinct. BBC News says US Fish and Wildlife Service has
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As coronavirus variants spread, the US struggles to keep up
Enlarge (credit: Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images) Across the US, the coronavirus is in retreat. The pandemic is still raging, mind you, with
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