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Scientists found Chernobyl fuel grains that still contain radioactive gases and operational secrets from the reactor after 30 years ...

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About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world with enough force to melt vast portions of its mantle and scatter a huge ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

A Japanese astronomer believes he has finally captured the first direct glimpse of dark matter, a discovery that, if ...

CHENGDU -- On Haizi Mountain in Daocheng in Southwest China's Sichuan province, with an average altitude over 4,400 meters, a ...

Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic, "Oppenheimer," dives deep into the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the ...

Overall, it has been quite a ride for the company founded nearly two decades ago in New Zealand by Peter Beck. A new book ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...