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Tweak to Schrödinger's cat equation could unite Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, study hints

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Physicists have proposed modifications to the infamous Schrödinger's cat paradox that could help explain why quantum particles can exist in more than one state simultaneously, while large objects (like the universe) seemingly cannot.

Thursday, Apr 25

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World's thinnest gold leaf, dubbed 'goldene,' is just 1 atom thick

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Goldene is the latest 2D material to be made since graphene was first created in 2004.

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Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption

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Researchers used AI to decipher an ancient papyrus that includes details about where Greek philosopher is buried.

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Save 32% on this feature-packed Garmin Instinct running watch

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Amazon are slashing $80 off this fantastic running watch at right now, which boasts two weeks of battery life.

1st self-driving car that 'lets you take your eyes off the road' goes on sale in the US — and it's not a Tesla

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Mercedes-Benz has sold at least one of its new vehicles fitted with its Drive Pilot autonomous driving software, which lets you take your hands off the steering wheel and your eyes off the road.

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Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos

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Every spring, creepy black 'spiders' sprout up on Mars as buried carbon dioxide ice releases dusty geysers of gas. New ESA images show the phenomenon has begun in the strange Inca City formation.

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China green-lights mass production of autonomous flying taxis — with commercial flights set for 2025

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The EHang EH216-S autonomous flying taxi is the first eVTOL ready for mass production and could lead the way for flying cars around the world.

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'We have combined two marvels of modern medicine': Woman gets pig kidney and heart pump in groundbreaking procedures

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In a medical first, doctors transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney into a human patient after giving her a new heart pump.

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Scientists find one of the oldest stars in the universe in a galaxy right next to ours

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An ancient star discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud has revealed the chemical fingerprint of the early universe. It hints that conditions were not the same everywhere when the first stars forged the elements for life.

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Wednesday, Apr 24

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Chemo side effect caused man's eyelash growth to go haywire

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Some medicines can inadvertently cause people's eyelashes to grow incredibly long.

Eerie, orange skies loom over Athens as dust storm engulfs southern Greece

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A Saharan dust storm that reached southern Greece on Tuesday (April 23) has turned the sky over Athens and other Greek cities an apocalyptic reddish-orange hue.

DNA analysis spanning 9 generations of people reveals marriage practices of mysterious warrior culture

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Researchers reconstructed the relationships among nearly 300 Avars, people from a 1,500-year-old mysterious warrior culture in the Carpathian Basin.

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Hidden 'biosphere' of extreme microbes discovered 13 feet below Atacama Desert is deepest found there to date

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Researchers have found microbes thriving 13 feet beneath the scorched surface of Chile's Atacama Desert, marking the deepest discovery of microbial life in the region to date.

Enormous explosion in 'Cigar Galaxy' reveals rare type of star never seen beyond the Milky Way

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An incredibly brief, ultrabright explosion has led astronomers to a newfound magnetic star outside the Milky Way, which could be the first of many extragalactic magnetars, according to new research.

Giant prehistoric salmon had tusk-like teeth, just like a warthog's

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The largest salmon species ever discovered, Oncorhynchus rastrosus may have used its distinctive, tusk-like teeth to compete with rivals, defend against predators and dig nests.

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Yellowstone Lake's weird resistance to climate change could be about to crack

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Yellowstone's lake's ice cover has remained unaffected by increasing temperatures due to increased snowfall. But this could make it vulnerable to a sudden shift.

5 catastrophic megathrust earthquakes led to the demise of the pre-Aztec city of Teotihuacan, new study suggests

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Analyses of Teotihuacan's three major pyramids show that the city was shaken by multiple catastrophic earthquakes — and this may have led to its demise.

Earth's magnetic field formed before the planet's core, study suggests

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The oldest firm age yet for Earth's magnetic field suggests that it developed before a solid planetary core, 3.7 billion years ago.

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Scientists just grew super realistic, miniature colons in the lab and gave them cancer

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The tiny colons were grown from mouse stem cells, but human versions could one day be used to test new drugs for colorectal cancer, scientists say.

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Claude 3 Opus has stunned AI researchers with its intellect and 'self-awareness' — does this mean it can think for itself?

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Anthropic's AI tool has beaten GPT-4 in key metrics and has a few surprises up its sleeve — including pontificating about its existence and realizing when it was being tested.

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Ancient, 30-foot relative of great white shark unearthed in Mexico quarry

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"Exceptionally preserved" fossils of an ancient shark that lived alongside the dinosaurs has finally revealed what the predator looked like — and why it may have gone extinct.

Glow-in-the-dark creatures appeared in Earth's oceans 540 million years ago

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Bioluminescence traces back to the Cambrian era — 540 million years ago — and could have been used for communication, courtship and camouflage among the earliest ocean creatures.

Tuesday, Apr 23

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Fake Botox injections have sickened 22, hospitalized 11, CDC warns

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The CDC warned doctors about "counterfeit or mishandled" Botox injections that have caused clusters of illness in the U.S.

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Weapons chest found on wreck of 15th-century 'floating castle' sheds light on 'military revolution at sea'

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The chest could help archaeologists understand the fire and explosion that sank the vessel.

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Explosive black hole flare from the center of our galaxy reconstructed from 'a single flickering pixel' using AI and Einstein's equations

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An explosive flare from the Milky Way's central black hole has been translated from 'a single flickering pixel' into a detailed 3D model using AI and Einstein's general relativity equations.

4 solar flares simultaneously erupt from the sun in rare 'super' explosion — and Earth could be hit by the fallout

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In the early hours of Tuesday (April 23), quadruple solar flares near-simultaneously exploded from across the sun's surface, and there's a good chance that one of these outbursts launched a solar storm toward Earth.

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Dying SpaceX rocket tears blood-red 'hole' in the sky over Texas — again

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On April 10, a bright red atmospheric "hole" was spotted in the night sky above Texas shortly after SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites into space. It is the latest example of an increasingly common phenomenon caused by the company's…

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After months of sending gibberish to NASA, Voyager 1 is finally making sense again

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NASA's Voyager 1 probe has resumed sending usable data back to Earth after engineers fixed a computer error that caused the interstellar spacecraft to only transmit gibberish for five months.

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An extra moon may be orbiting Earth — and scientists think they know exactly where it came from

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The near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which orbits alongside our planet as a 'minimoon,' may have originated from Giordano Bruno crater on the far side of the moon, new research suggests.