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Two astronomers have put a number on how long the Moon's polar ice could support a city of a million people, and their answer is about a century. Martin Elvis and Jonathan C. McDowell of the Center…
NASA says its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is carrying enough propellant for at least 22 years of science operations, more than double the 10-year fuel budget the observatory was designed…
Astronomers have mapped the gas in nine nearby galaxies whose central black holes are actively pulling in matter, and found the same arrangement in every one: rings of new stars well out from the…
The ATLAS collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider has tested whether pairs of Z bosons produced when a Higgs boson decays are quantum-mechanically linked, and reports that the data fit poorly…
A team at the Weizmann Institute of Science has counted the protein variants that sit in healthy human tissue alongside the standard version of the same protein: 13,910 of them across 29 tissues,…
MediaTek announced a new flagship smartphone processor, the Dimensity 9600 Pro, on Sept. 15, 2026, and said it is the first company to announce a chip built on a 2nm manufacturing process. In its…
The European Space Agency launched two Earth observation satellites on a single Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, and says its mission control center in Germany has received a…
A team led by Sandia National Laboratories has released a single test that measures quantum computers from three companies on the same scale, and reports that today's machines would have to become…
Rivers carry far more microplastic into the ocean than most earlier estimates suggest, and rainfall drives sharp spikes in what they deliver, researchers at Peking University reported Sept. 10 in the…
A seven-day temperature forecast in a high-income country is on average about as accurate as a one-day forecast in a low-income country, two researchers at Columbia University report in a global…
Plants in the headwaters of the Colorado River pull water from shallow groundwater already on its way to the stream, and that habit makes summer temperature as strong a control on flow as the winter…
Researchers in Denmark, Britain and the United States have re-read the randomized trials of mammography screening within a single framework and report that the trials are compatible with…