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What Is Plate Tectonics?
Plate tectonics is the framework that explains the large-scale motion of Earth's rigid outer shell. The lithosphere is broken into plates that move over the weaker asthe…
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What Is a Tokamak?
A tokamak is a doughnut-shaped magnetic-confinement device designed to hold extremely hot plasma using strong magnetic fields so controlled nuclear fusion reactions can…
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What Is the Large Hadron Collider?
The Large Hadron Collider is CERN’s 27-kilometer particle accelerator that circulates beams of protons or heavy ions in opposite directions and collides them so experime…
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What Are Large Language Models?
Large language models are machine-learning models trained on large text collections to predict and generate language, often using the transformer architecture.
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What Is Generative AI and How Does It Work?
Generative AI learns patterns from large datasets and uses those patterns to create new text, images, audio, code, and other content.
Space science
Traveling through time 55 million years, a world similar to ours has materialized.
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has just released spectacular images of a mirror world within the Milky Way galaxy, which contains Earth.
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Why can a small tugboat pull a ship 1,000 times larger?
The powerful propulsion system combined with the submerged hull design allows the tug to move giant ships.
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At 250 million light-years in diameter, how massive is the Boötes void?
The Boötes void or giant void is a very large, nearly spherical region containing very few galaxies. It is located in the vicinity of the constellation Boötes.
Animal world
After the river flows into the sea, where do the large amount of freshwater fish go?
Freshwater fish will die in the sea and rivers will flow into the sea. Everyone knows that freshwater fish cannot live in salty seawater, so where did the freshwater fis…
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Huge Block of Material Hidden Under Africa and the Pacific Ocean
Scientists know almost nothing about the origin and composition of two large continent-sized rock masses located on opposite sides of the Earth's inner mantle.
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Observing a black hole, the telescope was suddenly 'bombed' by a strange phenomenon
A strange phenomenon described by Harvard scientists as a cosmic burp has been recorded by the Very Large Radio Telescope system located in New Mexico, USA.
Animal world
Dog breed known as 'four great war dogs' and the nemesis of wolves
The Kangal is a breed of hunting dog that originated during the reign of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
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'Ghostly' neutrinos detected for the first time inside the world's largest particle accelerator
For the first time, physicists have created and detected
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The Deadly Truth About How the Earth May Have Come to Be
An Earth twice as large is impossible, because astronomers have just found a dead planet desert.