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Scientists have long been on the lookout for 'glueballs', which are bound states of subatomic gluon particles on their own, without any quarks involved. Now, we may just have found them, hiding away in a particle accelerator experiment. It promises to be a hugely significant breakthrough in physics, but for the benefit of everyone without a PhD…

Enlarge / The Space Launch System rocket lifts off on the Artemis I mission. NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the agency would need under its own plan, so last month, officials put out a call to industry to…

The result is the most-detailed digital map, or “connectome,” of the human brain ever created.On Thursday, Lichtman and his partners unveiled the results of their efforts in the prestigious journal Science, and also posted to the internet renderings of the human brain unlike any ever seen. They came complete with a program that allows viewers to…

The Velociraptors of "Jurassic Park" were terrifyingly large, merciless killing machines.The stuff of nightmares, yes. The stuff of reality? Not so much.Scientific research has long held the real Velociraptors were a far cry from the predatory beasts depicted in the film series, growing to be not much larger than wolves and covered in…

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It's a question that has dogged humanity since we first learned about black holes a little over a century ago: What the heck would it be like to plunge beyond the point of no return? We still don't have an answer, but a new supercomputer simulation is the best guess we have, based on current data. "People often ask about this, and simulating…

Many of us have seen impressive videos of humanoid robots that walk, talk, and even seem to think like people. But can they do anything and replace human workers? Can they run faster even than greyhounds or jump higher than pumas? Robotics engineers have worked for decades and invested millions of research dollars trying to create a robot…

SpaceX is targeting a Monday morning mission that could create a high-profile Starlink-Starliner launch doubleheader within 11 hours or fewer from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, navigational warnings indicate.Though SpaceX has not publicly announced this mission, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Coast Guard maritime safety…

NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to search for signs that Mars’ Gale Crater conditions could support microbial life. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Manganese-rich sandstones discovered by <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space…

Enlarge / This image captured by Astroscale's ADRAS-J satellite shows the discarded upper stage from a Japanese H-IIA rocket. Welcome to Edition 6.42 of the Rocket Report! There are several major missions set for launch in the next few months. These include the first…