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New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone

There appear to be two separate arms originating from the same general location at the crust-mantle boundary. One branch slopes northeast to feed the Yellowstone...

Causality optional? Testing the “indefinite causal order” superposition

The results were 18 standard deviations away from what you’d expect based on Bell’s theorem, which is a strong indication that superposition of temporal order...

Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk

Most of these issues can be improved through a combination of software and policy changes, and the report makes some suggestions along those lines. The...

We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what’s it telling us?

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the...

Jury finds Musk owes damages to Twitter investors for his tweets

On Friday, a jury in California determined that Elon Musk had misled investors in Twitter via public statements that depressed the price of the company’s...

TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant

On Wednesday, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it had issued its first construction approval in nearly a decade. The approval will allow work...

Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded out of Africa, resulting in a...

Trump orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants

Today’s executive order takes a different route to propping up coal: artificially inflating demand. “The Secretary of War, in coordination with the Secretary of Energy,”...

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...

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