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An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe ...

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Across many cultures, both men and women rate female faces as more attractive, and women exhibit this preference even more ...

Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – ...

Quantum computers that correct their own errors usually require hundreds of thousands of qubits. Start-up Nord Quantique ...

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The Hubble constant, a set number that connects a galaxy’s speed to its distance from Earth and tells us how fast the ...