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In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

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In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes to explore the outer reaches of the Solar System and the interstellar space beyond. Eventually, both spacecraft encountered a blazing “wall of fire” at the ...

The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.

Analyzing late March data from Solar Orbiter, researchers produced the first detailed map of the magnetic network and ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited the young cosmic clouds. If you stood inside one of those ancient ...

The chips that datacenters use to run the latest AI breakthroughs generate much more heat than previous generations of silicon. Anybody whose phone or laptop has overheated knows that electronics ...

Astrology has long revolved around patterns—the arrangement of planets, their movements in the zodiac, and interpreting their ...

Something I have been interested in is trying to get a better understanding of what life was like for Maori in New Zealand before Abel Tasman made contact in 1642. By then Maori had been in New ...