Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ - Quanta Magazine
In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules....
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NASA’s Webb Observes Immense Stellar Jet on Outskirts of Our Milky Way - NASA Science (.gov)
A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Stretching ...
Scientist Watching to See If Mysterious Object Visiting Our Solar System Releases Any Probes - Futurism
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb argued interstellar object 3I/ATLAS "could either visit us or release some mini-probes that arrive to Earth."...
Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap - Nature
LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment....
We've Just Listened In On One Of The World's Least Understood Mammals Like Never Before - IFLScience
Listening in on the deepest diving mammals on record isn't easy....
The weird ringed dwarf planet Quaoar may have an extra moon, astronomers discover - Space
"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar."...
AI detects earthquake surge beneath Europe’s most dangerous volcano - Earth.com
AI has uncovered hidden earthquake swarms beneath Campi Flegrei, offering scientists sharper insight into Europe’s most dangerous volcano....
NASA warns! 100-foot asteroid 2025 QV9 racing towards Earth at over 10,000 mph on September 10; should we - Times of India
Science News: NASA confirms that asteroid 2025 QV9 will fly by Earth on September 10. The asteroid is airplane-sized and travels at high speed. It wil...
A hungry star is eating its cosmic twin at a rate never seen before - Phys.org
A greedy white dwarf star not far from Earth is devouring its closest celestial companion at a rate never seen before, space scientists have discovere...
Something From Nothing – Physicists Mimic the “Impossible” Schwinger Effect - SciTechDaily
Superfluid helium reveals a manageable analog to the Schwinger effect. It deepens understanding of vortices and quantum tunneling. In 1951, physicist ...
Geologists find direct evidence of an extraterrestrial impact and tsunami in North Carolina - Earth.com
Geologists found traces of an extraterrestrial impact from the Eocene epoch and a subsequent tsunami in the Paint Hill area of North Carolina....
Rethinking Physics: Scientists Discover a “Giant” New Twist on a 140-Year-Old Effect - SciTechDaily
Their results pave the way for developing advanced electronic devices that rely on nonmagnetic materials. For the first time, researchers in Japan hav...
SpaceX targets Sept. 23 for launch of NASA's IMAP mission to map the boundaries of our solar system - Space
IMAP data "will help us better understand the fundamental physics of the heliosphere."...
Astronomers discover repeating gamma-ray burst 'unlike anything we have ever witnessed before' (video) - yahoo.com
A newly discovered gamma-ray burst is unlike any seen before, repeating over the course of a day rather than erupting in milliseconds, leaving astrono...
Three new species of snailfish discovered in Pacific Ocean depths - Oceanographic Magazine
Researchers have observed and described three new-to-science species of snailfish found in the abyssal depths 120 miles offshore of California...
SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.” - Ars Technica
SpaceX is targeting an orbital Starship flight with a next-gen vehicle next year....
Earth’s ‘New’ Quasi-Moon Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight for 60 Years - Gizmodo
The newly spotted quasi-moon will likely remain in its orbit for several decades to come....
Unprecedented gamma-ray burst hints at rare black hole - Phys.org
A team of astronomers have observed an explosion in the universe unlike any ever witnessed before. The gamma-ray bursts from outside the Milky Way gal...
'Artificial super astronauts': How AI and robotics could help humanity settle Mars - Space
"I think humans will still go to space and explore Mars and beyond, but we will be in interesting company."...