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The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double ...

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A multi-institutional team of physicists is proposing an experiment to test whether gravity behaves as a quantum entity when ...

The Wall Street Journal is experimenting with AI-generated article summaries that appear at the top of its news stories. The ...