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The European Space Agency has decided on how it will contribute to the construction of the next generation James Webb…
Since its existence was first theorized in the 1960s, scientists have been searching for the mysterious Higgs boson. This subatomic…
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Scheduled for launch in 2006, the New Horizons mission will finally get a close up view of Pluto, the only…
A new simulation of galaxy formation developed at the University of Chicago does a much better job of predicting what…
Satellites are giving scientists a bird's eye view of deforestation in the Brazilian rainforest, and the impact this is happening…