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EnvironmentWarming Is Projected to Steer Heavy Rains Toward Asia's Cities
Warming is projected to divert atmospheric rivers, bands of airborne water vapor, away from lower latitudes and toward densely populated parts of Asia, according to a multi-model study published…
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Did the LZ Experiment Find Dark Matter and Why Is the Answer Far More Complicated Than a Simple “Yes” or “No”?
On September 1, 2026, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration reported an unusual event that its underground detector had recorded on June 16, 2023. The detector is designed to search for WIMPs:…
By Igor Danilov
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A Quantum Memory That One Qubit Can Address Slot by Slot
Open the lid of a superconducting quantum computer and most of what you see is not computing; it is wiring. Coaxial lines run down through a refrigerator colder than deep space, one or more for every…
By Oli Kotyk
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Enceladus Sorts Its Own Ocean Chemistry on the Way Into Space
A chemist who wants to know what is dissolved in a jar of seawater has to take the sample apart first: separate the salts, concentrate each one, then put it in front of an instrument on its own. On…
By Victor Kuklin
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When Rain Falls, Rivers Get Less of It Than Yearly Averages Suggest
In dry country a river is often a line on a map and a bed of dry stones. Then a storm arrives, the stones are wet for an afternoon, and somewhere downstream a gauge registers a pulse of water. How…
By Anna Kotlyar
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The Weather of 1903, Replayed in a Warmer World
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Two Cold Failed Stars Appear to Be Moving With Debris From Swallowed Galaxies
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