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Efforts are underway to exploit a strategy that could generate fusion with relative ease.
Image credit: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
No one had seen one of these huge red stars wink out of existence with so little fuss before.
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A deep-learning algorithm could potentially improve diagnosis and classification of neurological abnormalities.
Image courtesy of Weicheng Kuo, Christian Hӓne, Pratik Mukherjee, Jitendra Malik, and Esther L. Yuh.
A study finds a shift in onset of El Niño events from eastern to western Pacific and increased frequency of extreme El Niño events since the late 1970s.
Image courtesy of NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS).
A study explores how various types of food affect both human health and the environment.
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Kerry Sieh recounts the hunt for a meteorite impact crater in Southeast Asia.
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Profile of NAS member and molecular biologist Mary Lou Guerinot
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