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Amazon is aiming to launch its first operational satellites today to provide speedy internet connections in remote regions, ...

Computers that use photons rather than electrons to manipulate data promise greater speed and energy efficiency, and the ...

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An AI analysis finds that since the 1970s, speeches by US Congress members have shifted to favour language such as “fake news ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...