The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for five long years—an infrared photo of two dying stars we'd requested from ...

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IBM’s newly announced decoder is called Relay-BP, which it says achieves error rates “orders of magnitude” lower than all ...

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In the ERC project HelixMold, a team from TU Graz developed a method for the computer-based design of artificial proteins, ...

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How early missions like Pioneer and Voyager turned spacecraft into time capsules, carrying Earth's story across the stars.

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