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Researchers spot Saturn-sized planet in the “Einstein desert”

Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered have been in relatively tight orbits around their host stars, allowing us to track them as they repeatedly loop...

Here we go again: Retiring coal plant forced to stay open by Trump Admin

On Tuesday, US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issued a now familiar order: because of a supposed energy emergency, a coal plant scheduled for closure...

Lawsuit over Trump rejecting medical research grants is settled

The case regarding cancelled grants moved relatively quickly. By June, a District Court judge declared that the federal policy “represents racial discrimination” and issued a...

Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use

If you add in nuclear, then the US has reached a grid that is 40 percent emissions-free over the first nine months of 2025. That’s...

Next-generation black hole imaging may help us understand gravity better

Right now, we probably don’t have the ability to detect these small changes in phenomena. However, that may change, as a next-generation version of the...

Westinghouse is claiming a nuclear deal would see $80B of new reactors

On Tuesday, Westinghouse announced that it had reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would purportedly see $80 billion of new nuclear reactors built...

Clinical trial of a technique that could give everyone the best antibodies

This brings us to the technique being used here. In this case, the researchers placed the antibody genes in a circular loop of DNA called...

A biological 0-day? Threat-screening tools may miss AI-designed proteins.

On Thursday, a team of researchers led by Microsoft announced that they had discovered, and possibly patched, what they're terming a biological zero-day—an unrecognized security...

You can hold on to your butts thanks to DNA that evolved in fish

There were some indications that the same thing is true in fish, where the elimination of equivalent hox genes also interfered with the formation of...

Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird

This led a Mexican-European research collaboration to get interested in finding DNA from elsewhere in the Columbian mammoth's range, which extended down into Central America....

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