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Coatings that build up on soot particles in the air raise black carbon's warming effect from 0.20 watts per square meter, plus or minus 0.25, to 0.30 watts per square meter, plus or minus 0.42,…

Astronomers have measured the naked surface of comet 28P/Neujmin from more than 10 astronomical units out, and report that it reflects light differently from the asteroids whose color it otherwise…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two regimens built around Ziihera (zanidatamab-hrii) as a first treatment for adults with HER2-positive gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma that cannot…

NASA said on Aug. 25 that Pandora, a small satellite launched in January, has finished commissioning and started taking science observations of exoplanets and the stars they orbit. Pandora reached…

A study published Aug. 25 in Communications Earth & Environment attributes 40% to 64% of the climate-driven decline in western US water supply to emissions from 122 fossil fuel and cement producers,…

The coral reef at Bar Al Hikman in Oman has been losing area continuously since the mid-1980s rather than in pulses driven by storms, according to a 40-year satellite reconstruction published Aug. 25…

A distributed denial-of-service attack that began at 3:38 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 24, disrupted twelve shared digital services run by the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency, the agency said in a statement…

Perinatal mortality fell across 17 low- and middle-income countries by a pooled 1.08 deaths per 1,000 births each year (95% CI −1.40 to −0.76) over three decades, according to a study published Aug.…

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have run superconducting single-photon detectors whose sensing wire is a tenth of a millimeter wide, more than 100 times wider than…

All 15 DNA sequences that researchers designed with neural networks switched a gene on in the tissue they were meant for when tested in mouse embryos, according to a paper published Aug. 25 in Nature…

The Aerospace Corporation presented the first six months of on-orbit results for DiskSat, a satellite built as a disc 1 meter across and 2.5 centimeters deep, at the Small Satellite Conference in…

The Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki, Japan, said on Aug. 24 that a neutral-atom quantum computer called "Shunkai" is in operation, running about 50 qubits. The institute, part of the…