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Groundbreaking 3D brain scan generated 1.4 petabytes of data from millimeter-sized sample

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

What just happened? Researchers have reconstructed a minuscule piece of the human brain down to the level of individual synapses, representing a ...

NASA licenses 3D-printable superalloy that’s 2,500x stronger

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Visualizing a more durable and longer-lasting aircraft and spacecraft that could resist exorbitantly high temperatures has been an aspiration of aerospace industries ...

Lost Atlantis-like ‘Sahul’ continent that let ancient humans ‘cross from Asia to Australia’ revealed in stunning map

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NEW archaeological records provide evidence of a lost Atlantis-like landscape that early humans traveled on more than 70,000 years ago. However, researchers ...

‘World’s purest silicon’ could lead to 1st million-qubit quantum computing chips

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Scientists have created an enhanced, ultra-pure form of silicon that could one day be the foundation for highly reliable “silicon-spin qubits” in ...

Missed aurora borealis? You may have another chance to see Northern Lights tonight

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The aurora borealis, also known as the Northern and Southern Lights, was visible in India’s Ladakh on 11 May, according to the ...

NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Enlarge / The Space Launch System rocket lifts off on the Artemis I mission. NASA is looking for ways to get rock ...

The stormy sun erupts with its biggest solar flare yet from a massive sunspot — and it’s still crackling (video)

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Just when we thought we’d seen the most powerful flares from a colossal sunspot, the sun unleashed its strongest eruption of the ...

Is dark matter’s main rival theory dead?

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Enlarge / Galaxy rotation has long perplexed scientists. One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies ...

Institutional Memory, On Paper | Hackaday

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Our own Dan Maloney has been on a Voyager kick for the past couple of years. Voyager, the space probe. As a ...

James May says stop panicking about pub closures as only the bad ones don’t survive

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

TV presenter and publican James May believes Britain is “oversubscribed” with watering holes and the sector’s struggles are simply “a cull” that ...