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Mount Everest may be “taller than it should be” because of a river “capture” event 89,000 years ago.

Although quantum computing is a nascent field, there are plenty of key moments that defined it over the last few decades as scientists strive to create machines that can solve impossible problems.

Starlink satellites unintentionally emit radio waves that appear more than 10 million times brighter than natural sources, as seen by ground-based radio telescopes.

At the core of a quantum computer is the quantum processor, but these technologies are vastly different from the CPUs found in conventional computers.

Campfire (noun, “KAMP FYRE”) Campfires are small eruptions on the sun’s surface. They are similar to massive explosions known as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. But campfires are only about a millionth or a billionth the size…

Clouds form when water molecules in the air stick to certain tiny particles — think of them as seeds. Scientists have now discovered an unexpected source of those seeds. When two layers of Earth’s atmosphere overlap, chemicals in each layer…

The Scythians were a nomadic group known for creating elaborate gilded artworks.

Earth is round, but are there any planets in the universe that aren’t?

The speed and direction of deep currents off Mozambique’s coast are more subject to change than scientists expected.

Here’s how your brain visualizes scenarios that you’re not actually looking at with your eyes.