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Physicists discovered that the famous 'Star Trek' spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but cosmologists have been ...

Quantum spin chains that simulate black hole physics can boost quantum battery charging power and reduce charging times by ...

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Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

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The new candidate, AT2025ulz, initially acted like a kilonova, only to later mystify scientists by morphing into what ...