Mercury’s magmas may not play by Earth’s rules. Laboratory work suggests that the innermost planet’s sulfur-rich, iron-poor chemistry could fundamentally alter how molten rock crystallizes, meaning planetary scientists cannot safely borrow terrestrial assumptions when reconstructing how Mercury’s mantle solidified. Research using the Indarch meteorite, an enstatite chondrite, as a stand-in for Mercury’s building blocks has […]

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X-ray light from a cluster of more than a thousand galaxies has just forced astrophysicists to rewrite a central chapter in the story of how the universe builds its elements. Studies of data from Japan’s Hitomi telescope have found that the standard theoretical models describing what massive stars forge in their dying moments may be […]

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The Democratic Republic of Congo government and M23 rebels have reportedly signed a tentative agreement in Switzerland to ease humanitarian aid deliveries, release prisoners within 10 days, and establish a ceasefire monitoring mechanism, according to a joint statement reported by Al Jazeera. Fighting on the ground has continued. The deal emerged from five days of […]

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Vulcan would be allowed to fly lower-energy missions as investigation of solid rocket motors anomaly continues

The fusion energy industry’s funding euphoria is showing its first real fractures, with two marquee companies rushing toward public markets before clearing the scientific threshold that would prove their reactors can actually work. TAE Technologies and General Fusion have both announced mergers with publicly traded shells in recent months, moves that have split founders, investors, […]

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Astronomers have built a virtual universe detailed enough that its simulated galaxies are nearly indistinguishable from the real ones the James Webb Space Telescope sees in deep space. The project, called COLIBRE, traces cosmic evolution from the first billion years after the Big Bang to the present day, and for the first time in a […]

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Israeli forces have reportedly killed 91 healthcare workers and wounded more than 200 others in Lebanon since the current war with Hezbollah began in early March, according to Lebanese health ministry figures, in a pattern of strikes that emergency responders now describe using a new term of art: the quadruple tap. The phrase emerged from […]

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Technology traces roots to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Cerebras Systems is heading to Wall Street with something no AI chip startup has brought to an IPO before: a contract with OpenAI reportedly valued at more than $10 billion. That single deal, covering inference workloads where speed matters more than raw training throughput, anchors the most credible challenge to Nvidia’s dominance that the semiconductor […]

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