Icons of winter are sometimes found in unexpected places. In one striking example, a series of oval lagoons in a remote part of Siberia forms the shape of a towering snowman when viewed from above.
This image, centered on the remote…
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Chinese research named among Physics World’s top 10 breakthroughs of 2025-Xinhua
BEIJING, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) — A landmark achievement by Chinese researchers in creating China’s first two-dimensional metals has been named one of Physics World’s “Top 10 Breakthroughs for 2025.”
The work, led by a team at the Institute of…
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Weathering Space | American Scientist
When the Soviet Vostok and American Mercury and Gemini missions carried humans into space, their crews experienced a physically and psychologically hostile environment hitherto unknown to humans. These pioneers not only left…
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New X-ray Space Telescope Gives Sharpest-Ever Glimpse at Growth of a Rapidly-Spinning Black Hole | Center for Astrophysics
The Harvard Astronomical Glass Plate Collection is an archive of roughly 500,000 images of the sky preserved on glass photographic plates, the way professional astronomers often captured images in the era before the dominance of digital…Continue Reading
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Ramanujan’s 100-year-old pi formula is still revealing the Universe
Most people first encounter the irrational number π (pi) — commonly approximated as 3.14 and extending infinitely without repeating — during school lessons about circles. In recent decades, advances in computing have pushed this familiar…
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NASA Completes Next-Gen Telescope, And It Could Soon Reveal Whether We’re Alone : ScienceAlert
If you feel a thrill every time we discover something new about the cosmos, then November 25th may have been a noteworthy day to you. That’s the day that NASA completed assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope.
The two main segments of the…
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Heterogeneous graph transformer and diffusion model for disease diagnosis
Johnson, A. E. W., Pollard, T. J., Shen, L. & Lehman, L. H. MIMIC-III, a freely accessible critical care database. Sci. Data. 3, 1–9 (2016).
Shi, C., Hu, B., Zhao, W. X. & Yu, P. S….
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Predicting SWCNT Bundle Thermal Conductivity Enables New Materials Design With Machine Learning
The dramatic reduction in thermal conductivity within bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) has long puzzled scientists, hindering their application in advanced thermal management systems. Now, Feng Tao, Xiaoliang Zhang, Dawei…
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This woman brings the universe closer to Nepal
Planets, stars, galaxies, asteroids, black holes and cosmic background radiation are omnipresent in Manisha Dwa’s everyday life. The astrophysicist and astronomy expert explains why her field of science has such a huge impact on life on earth,…
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