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Pink granite boulders sitting mysteriously atop Antarctica's Hudson Mountains have led scientists to a stunning discovery: a hidden granite mass buried beneath Pine Island Glacier, stretching nearly 100 km wide and 7 km thick. By dating the rocks to ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have briefly taken to the skies--only to give it up later. By studying rare fossils with preserved feathers, researchers uncovered a surprising clue hidden in molting patterns, revealing that Anchiornis likely couldn't .. ...

AI's growing energy use sounds alarming, but its global climate impact may be far smaller than expected. Researchers found that while AI consumes huge amounts of electricity, it barely moves the needle on overall emissions. The real impact is more .. ...

A critically ill 33-year-old man survived an almost unimaginable scenario--living for 48 hours without lungs--thanks to a groundbreaking surgical approach. After a severe flu-triggered infection destroyed his lungs and caused multiple organ failure, ...

A risky but often lifesaving surgery that removes damaged parts of the small intestine can leave patients facing a new threat: serious liver damage with no available treatment. Now, scientists have developed a promising compound that works directly . ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light "super-puff" planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that's blocking scientists from seeing what it's made of. Observations from JWST revealed that this haze may be one of the largest ever detected, possibly ...

A new tomato-picking robot is learning to think before it acts. Instead of simply identifying ripe fruit, it predicts how easy each tomato will be to harvest and adjusts its approach accordingly. This smarter strategy boosted success rates to 81%, .. ...

MIT physicists have built a powerful new microscope that uses terahertz light to uncover hidden quantum motions inside superconductors. By compressing this normally unwieldy light into a tiny region, they were able to observe electrons moving ...

Researchers have pushed quantum chip design into a new era by simulating every physical detail before fabrication. Using a supercomputer with nearly 7,000 GPUs, they modeled how signals travel and interact inside an ultra-tiny chip. Unlike earlier . ...

A new study put ChatGPT to the test by asking it to judge whether hundreds of scientific hypotheses were true or false--and the results were far from reassuring. While the AI got it right about 80% of the time on the surface, its performance dropped ...