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"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

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The sea ice changed completely over the course of a few hours, from disconnected floes to a vast, snow-covered plain.

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A new orchestration approach, called Orchestral, is betting that enterprises and researchers want a more integrated way to ...

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2026 is highlighted as the year of the singularity with Elon Musk warning of underestimated impacts; conversations with him ...