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Hitting the trails with a low-priced e-mountain bike

Enlarge / The Apex, SWFT's take on a very affordable e-mountain bike.John Timmer The subject of this review, SWFT's new Apex mountain...

Report: US needs much more than the IRA to get to net zero by 2050

EnlargeJustin Paget On Tuesday, the US National Academies of Science released a report entitled "Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States." The report...

New analysis suggests human ancestors nearly died out

EnlargeGetty Images Multiple lines of evidence indicate that modern humans evolved within the last 200,000 years and spread out of Africa starting...

Political polarization toned down through anonymous online chats

EnlargeCarol Yepes/Getty Political polarization in the US has become a major issue, as Republicans and Democrats increasingly inhabit separate realities on topics...

US picks the first two sites for carbon-capture hubs

EnlargeNicoElNino On Friday, the US Department of Energy announced that it chose the first two sites to host facilities that will pull...

Rover sampling finds organic molecules in water-altered rocks on Mars

Enlarge / Jezero crater shows clear signs of water-formed deposits, so it's not a surprise to find water-altered material there.NASA/MSSS/USGS Organic chemicals,...

US public wants climate change dealt with, but doesn’t like the options

Enlarge / The East Coast has gotten the chance to experience something that's become disturbingly familiar out west.Bloomberg Creative After rejoining the...

X-ray “light echoes” hint at outburst from Milky Way’s central black hole

Enlarge / This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It’s the first direct...

A telescope happened to be pointing at the brightest supernova yet observed

Enlarge / Artist's conception of a gamma-ray burst.NASA Supernovae are some of the most energetic events in the Universe. And a subset...

AI system devises first optimizations to sorting code in over a decade

EnlargeAnas Photography Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take...

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