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What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key
On May 12, at nine simultaneous press conferences around the world, astrophysicists revealed the first image of the black hole…
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To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte
This was slow going. “We spent a lot of time, probably the first couple of years, really just working out…
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Astronomers Tally the Growing Carbon Footprint of Space Science
For generations, astronomers have spent lonely evenings at remote mountaintop observatories peering at stars and planets as they whirl overhead.…
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DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion
The inside of a tokamak—the doughnut-shaped vessel designed to contain a nuclear fusion reaction—presents a special kind of chaos. Hydrogen…
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