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The United States successfully tested nuclear rocket fuel for a flight to Mars five times faster than a conventional rocket.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that it has become the first to test nuclear rocket fuel under conditions as…

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In China, the “artificial sun” was lit for a record 17 minutes 46 seconds – it was 6.6 times hotter than the real Sun

On January 20, 2025, the Chinese experimental fusion reactor EAST set a new record for electron plasma confinement. The reaction…

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Scientists have denied dark matter particles the opportunity to be superheavy

Obtaining the first experimental evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson about ten years ago made it possible to…

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Astronomers have obtained the most detailed infrared image of an active galactic nucleus yet

US scientists have used an innovative method of combining images from two optical telescopes to create the most detailed infrared…

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China surpasses the United States in the number of leading scientists for the first time

China has overtaken the United States for the first time in terms of the number of leading experts in science…

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A mysterious source of radio signals has been discovered from a region of the Universe where there is nothing

The latest ASKAP radio telescope, which is being built in stages in Australia, has detected a source of radio signals…

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Science is under the blow of inflation: NASA has cut the budget of Hubble and threatens Webb with the same

It has become known that NASA is demanding a reduction in funding for the Hubble space observatory by 20% or…

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NASA has begun to find hidden supermassive black holes more often, but this is not enough for scientists

It is believed that at the center of almost all galaxies there are supermassive black holes (SMBs), which seriously influence…

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“James Webb” examined colossal waves of stardust – they are larger than our solar system

Phenomena on a cosmic scale can be rapid, as the James Webb Telescope showed when observing the binary Wolf-Rayet star…

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Scientists have looked inside neutron stars for the first time, making a breakthrough in their simulation on supercomputers

There are extreme physical processes going on inside neutron stars that will likely never be studied directly. Moreover, these objects…

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