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Parker Solar Probe finds order inside the solar wind's chaos

In the turbulent solar wind, magnetic fields flip the way they spin at very small scales, a pattern now seen directly for the first time.

The star that keeps 'exploding' but never dies

X-ray data from NASA's Chandra reveal a hidden partner, a neutron star or a black hole, behind the repeated outbursts of the giant star AT 2016blu.

Will asteroid miners crash the price of platinum?

Two MIT researchers simulated what happens to platinum-group metal prices once companies start bringing metal home from asteroids.

Could tiny whirlpools on the Sun heat its corona?

A new study argues that millions of small plasma vortices on the Sun's surface carry enough energy to explain why its outer atmosphere is so hot.

Webb's 'little red dots' may be baby black holes

New simulations suggest the mysterious red specks spotted with NASA's Webb telescope are young galaxies where the first giant black holes were forming.

Twin Mars probes take a shortcut past Earth

NASA's two ESCAPADE spacecraft fired their engines while swinging past Earth and are now heading to Mars, due in September 2027.

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Why is Mars red? Sample

The Red Planet is, in a way, covered in rust.

🤖 AI & Technology

Hugging Face promises to keep open-source AI alive

After Jensen Huang left Nvidia, the CEO of Hugging Face, which Nvidia agreed to buy for $12.9 billion, vowed to keep fighting for open AI.

Nvidia's founder Jensen Huang steps down

Jensen Huang, who co-founded Nvidia and led it to the centre of the AI boom, has left the company; finance chief Colette Kress is now interim CEO.

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When AI found a planet humans missed Sample

A neural network spotted an eighth planet around the star Kepler-90.

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How does an AI chatbot write? Sample

It builds every answer one small piece at a time.

🗺️ International

🗺️ International

US envoys shuttle between Putin and Zelensky as Ukraine talks continue

After meeting Vladimir Putin in Moscow, US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner flew to Dublin to see Volodymyr Zelensky, with a new round of three-way talks agreed.

⚽ Sports

⚽ Sports

Crystal Palace sack Pierre Sage, with Thomas Frank lined up

Bottom of the Premier League after four straight defeats, Crystal Palace have dismissed Pierre Sage after just 16 matches and are close to appointing Thomas Frank.

😲 Amazing World

😲 Amazing World

A rodent as heavy as a big dog roamed Thailand some 34 million years ago

Two fossil teeth from a Thai coal mine reveal Yakamys sirindhornae, a giant rodent that may have weighed about 30 kg, roughly twice its known neighbours.

📈 Crypto & Economy

📈 Crypto & Economy

Japan's Nomura weighs selling its crypto arm

Nomura is reportedly in talks about selling Laser Digital, its Swiss-based crypto business, as its European operations keep losing money.

🌍 World Tech

🌍 World Tech

Lego's BrickLink marketplace goes dark after 'unusual activity'

Lego has kept BrickLink, the popular second-hand Lego marketplace, offline for days while it investigates an unexplained problem.