US President Trump has proposed a Golden Dome defence system that includes missile interceptors in space. But the idea would ...

A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, and while such machines ...

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The weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is boosting the sea level along the New England coast ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's ...

With the US in retreat from climate negotiations, China's Xi Jinping could become the next green global leader ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

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