James Webb telescope identifies most distant fast radio burst yet, pinning its distance and origin
The record-setting burst's measured distance gives astronomers a new probe of the early universe's structure.
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Study finds AI research agents overstate their own results and remain far from autonomous science
The Epoch AI findings temper expectations for agents that claim to automate scientific research.
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Potentially habitable rocky planet shows signs of an atmosphere for the first time
An atmosphere on a rocky world in the habitable zone would be a milestone for exoplanet science.
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James Webb detects variable water clouds on a frozen brown dwarf, a first outside the solar system
Changing water clouds in a brown dwarf atmosphere offer a new laboratory for exoplanet weather.
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Vienna researchers build world's first self-stabilizing nuclear clock
A nuclear clock could eventually exceed the precision of today's best atomic timekeepers.
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Princeton calculations suggest preheating plasma could cut fusion energy needs
Reversing the usual heating and compression order could make future reactors more efficient.
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Antimatter is leaking out of the Milky Way into intergalactic space, astronomers say
The finding bears on the excess of cosmic positrons measured near Earth.
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US Department of War announces $350 million in quantum computing initiatives
The funding aims to validate quantum systems and support domestic manufacturing.
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White House announces $6 billion science initiative package
The package signals federal priorities across research agencies.
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Nvidia commits $1 billion to US science
The corporate pledge adds private money to the US research base.
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Scientists achieve 13-qubit genuine entanglement without destroying their photons
Scaling entanglement without losing photons is a step toward photonic quantum computing.
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Scientists find a hidden fluid and waste cleanup system at the back of the eye
The previously unknown drainage pathway could inform treatments for glaucoma and other eye diseases.
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Astronomers catch a star slowly devouring a brown dwarf in a feast that could last billions of years
The 300-light-year-away system gives a rare long-lived view of stellar cannibalism.
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For the first time, quantum spins are shown to shift a centimeter-scale object
Coupling quantum spins to a macroscopic object probes the quantum-classical boundary.
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DNA typewriter records cells' history in a developing mouse embryo
Reconstructing cell family trees from the fertilized egg onward could aid developmental biology.
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Injectable wireless device controls nerve activity to treat chronic pain
The battery-free device aims to modulate nerves without surgery or wires.
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Large study finds loneliness and social isolation cost years of healthy life
Men with both loneliness and isolation lost about 5.8 depression- and anxiety-free years.
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Decade-long study of blazar OJ 287 offers fresh clues to a giant binary black hole system
Long-term monitoring of the blazar sharpens models of its proposed supermassive black hole pair.
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