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Electrons swarm in a soup of quantum entanglement in a new class of materials called strange metals

The Map Happenings series on the hugely impactful events that forever changed our world. This week: the story of a little known company called 'Etak'. I think you'll find it a fascinating read...

Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces, and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time.

The 24th sample taken by the six-wheeled scientist offers new clues about Jezero Crater and the lake it may have once held.

A sticky piece of DNA is rewriting the story of avian evolution–and shaking up the family tree.

An asteroid that slammed into Mars around 2.3 million years ago left one nine-mile wide crater and created 2 billion smaller craters.

The polarized light image gives us a "new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the European Southern Observatory.

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Earlier this month, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, which has spent years traveling through interstellar space after launching almost 50 years ago, started sending nonsensical messages back to Earth — as if its senility was catching up with it. "We’d gone from having a conversation with Voyager, with the 1’s and 0’s containing science data, to […]

NASA is reaching across more than 15 billion miles to rescue its malfunctioning Voyager 1 probe—but this hallowed interstellar mission can’t live forever

Tim Cook shut down plans to acquire Tesla before cycling through a junkyard’s worth of self-driving designs over the past decade. The inside story is a case study in indecision.

THE FLYING CAR IS DEAD LONG LIVE THE PERSONAL AIRBORNE MOBILITY DEVICE! It’s not a “flying car.” Zero emphasis on the “car” better serves the “flying.” WINGIN’ IT Lamborghini Countach The car world has oil speculator and F1 team owner Walter Wolf to thank for one of the most distinctive wings. Wolf commissioned his own Countach prototypes in the Seventies. The cars had massive 335-mm rear Pirellis, widened fender arches, and a V-shaped rear wing that characterized many later Countaches. A

Last year’s vibrant superbloom season in California could soon get a vivid encore. Once the rains subside, state parks officials say, the wildflowers will open up into a rare kaleidoscope of color — starting in Southern California deserts, where landscapes will be covered in densely packed blankets of purple and blue, red, and gold. Superblooms will then unfold in the north state, when temperatures warm past the 60-degree mark.

Apple has announced its latest sci-fi series for Apple TV Plus, an adaptation of William Gibson’s seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.

Miami-based CGI purchased the lease rights from the Trumps for $375 million