Charlie Wood

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Quanta Magazine

Why can't we find Planet Nine?

How artificial intelligence can supercharge the search for new particles

Swarming bacteria create an 'impossible' superfluid

Black Hole Firewalls Could Be Too Tepid to Burn

The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

World’s Simplest Animal Reveals Hidden Diversity

Dark Matter Gets a Reprieve in New Analysis

Do Brains Operate at a Tipping Point?

Physicists Peer Inside a Fireball of Quantum Matter

Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws

Unexpected ‘Germline’ Plant Cells May Shield New Generations

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Popular Science

Dust to dust: How Earth’s most advanced observatory is unraveling our origins

Gravitational waves could solve a cosmological crisis within five years—or shake physics to its core

Two NASA spacecraft died in one week—and there's a connection

Voyager 2 is almost outside the sun's protective bubble

In the hunt for aliens, satellites may light the way

Where are all the aliens? Struggling and hustling just like us

Tardigrades that crash-landed on the moon may still be alive, but they’re not having fun

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Scienceline

Does a theory of everything exist?

Ancient humans may have shaped the planet with fire and rice

Raiders of the lost bark

Once deemed brutal, a decades-old therapy is helping doctors fight depression

Urban oasis (Video)

Going the distance: how NASA launches spacecraft so far on so little

Robo-zebrafish learn to make friends (video)

We're flushing energy down the toilet

If you can sing, can you talk? (podcast)

Forever young: how society might adapt to longer lives

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The Christian Science Monitor

Ringing success: How Cassini brought Saturn's swirling mysteries into focus (cover story)

Fusion breakthrough explained: What are quarks again?

Robot communication: It's more than just talk

As space junk soars, science turns to nature for ideas

Looking for leaders in physics education? Try New Jersey

Cyberwar's new front: What we know about latest global attacks

Unbreakable: China doubles down on quantum internet

Bears Ears rift reveals monumental federal-county chasm

Can female mentors patch the leaky STEM pipeline?

How the Great American Eclipse will bring solar science to Earth

Where are all the space hotels? Why smart people make terrible forecasts

How Trump's budget could affect basic research

Even babies agree roses are red, psychologists say

Can Native research codes avoid culture clash?

To colonize space, start closer to Earth

Lost in space: Astronauts lose grip on key shield component

Prairie dogs win major victory in court

Enceladus ocean jets spew hydrogen: Hint of life?

Will your next home be built by robots?

Could this rather esurient caterpillar help stem the plastic deluge?

SpaceX makes history twice in one evening

Why tonight's launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 will be historic

How climate skeptics are trying to influence 200,000 science teachers

A 20-mile long 'spacescraper' dangling from an asteroid: Could it work?

British kid finds NASA mistake: when too many cooks don't spoil anything

Scientists shakeup in the dinosaur family tree. A British branch?

Tasmanian blue glow may hide a deadly secret

How origami machines might unlock secrets of Mars and the universe

Can parrots make each other laugh?

Why a US Court of Appeals thinks this comma is worth millions

Declassified: How cold war movies are blowing up atomic bomb models

Is there a link between dinosaurs' extinction and this Martian volcano?

What can NASA do to save Curiosity's wheels?

Could a huge magnet turn the Red Planet green?

California wants to give driverless cars their learners' permits

What's with the humpback 'super-groups' forming near South Africa?

Coral bleaching now a 'global-scale event'

Scientists confirm: Time crystals definitely exist

New CO2 record: Is it time to geoengineer our planet?

Are distant radio bursts in space signs of alien sailors?

ISS 2.0: Why the next space station could orbit the moon

Hair apparent: Study links modern Australian Aboriginals with the continent's earliest settlers

The rise of Bitcoin: Why bytes are worth more than gold – for now

Are Canadian fossils evidence of the oldest form of life yet seen?

In the search for life on Mars, are robots nearing their limits?

Guaranteed paycheck: Does a 'basic income' encourage laziness?

With latest ISS docking, SpaceX settles into its supply ship role

Discovery of seven Earth-like planets heats up search for life

Sunday's solar eclipse: Yes, these events still produce real science

The Red Planet is red hot right now, but are we really ready to send people to Mars?

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More Publications

Exoplanets Lurking in Dusty Disks Reveal Their Secrets

Mental bias puts airport security at risk

How vintage rocket tech could be NASA's ticket to Mars and beyond

Schwann Cells Keep Signals Strong

Gatekeepers of the brain

Forming the Sciatic nerve

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