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A new paper examining and simulating the formation of wide-orbit planets has put the chances of our own Solar System ...

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

At the air-water interface, a negatively charged amino acid carries out a nucleophile attack on a gas molecule to convert it ...

Imagine a bacterial cell—one of the multi-drug-resistant varieties that keep infectious disease experts up at night—blown ...

Researchers recreated a 30,000-year-old ocean journey from Taiwan to Japan using canoes and simulations to test early human ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Simulation theory is the "theoretical hypothesis" that what we perceive as reality "is actually an advanced, hyper-realistic computer simulation, possibly overseen by a higher being", said tech ...

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

In the simulation hypothesis, some scientists believe we could outsmart the simulator—even in the unlikely case we’re just glitches in the code.