Modelling suggests that data collected by JWST will be able to distinguish between planets that are molten to the core and ...

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Physicists have caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a device weighing just a few kilograms, orders of magnitude ...

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But researchers still disagree widely on how best to describe the physical reality that lies behind the mathematics, as a ...

NISAR — which stands for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar — will use two radar instruments operating at different ...

Nature survey shows that disagreement about the meaning of quantum physics remains strong, even 100 years in. And that’s OK.

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Since the late 1990s, China has had several national-level talent recruitment programmes to attract overseas researchers, on ...

Scientists record 9,000 hours of languages spoken in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa as free-access training data for AI ...

When people viewed virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brains triggered an immune response. The brain activates ...

Science journalism is almost non-existent in Africa, even in the countries that are becoming crucial hubs for research. This ...