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A collaborative team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), Nanjing ...

Researchers have discovered numerous tiny ice quakes occurring deep within Greenland's ice streams. These quakes contribute ...

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Another prong of the administration’s actions is an attempt to influence what research is funded. Russell Vought, the head of ...

Ideally, these models could infer a simulated understanding of how in-game objects and characters should behave based on video footage alone, then create fully interactive video that instantly ...

A new study uncovers different ways we seek out information and why they might matter for our well-being and our societies.

A new Beyond the Horizon project seeks to provide the fundamental understanding of solid-state sodium-ion batteries to make ...

Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles ...

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