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The most super superconductor of them all

Imagine this: A future where your phone battery is so good that you never have to get through the day on a 10% charge again.
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Science Advisor looks skyward

The Chief Science Advisor of Canada wants to get to the bottom of this UFO business.
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Better computing through brain power

A new paper in Frontiers in Science details one research group’s case for organoid intelligence—the practice of using tiny clumps of human stem cells to power computers. 
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A carbon capture breakthrough

The world’s climate goals are banking on the success of carbon capture technology, and one start-up has just achieved a major breakthrough. 
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Using genetic genealogy to solve cold cases

While you’re using DNA testing services to explore your neanderthal ancestry, the police are using the same data to solve crimes. 
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Farewell to the leap second

It’s not every day that decisions are made that affect the passage of time itself, but here we are. 
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Identifying flying objects

That one person in every friend group who’s secretly (or vocally) obsessed with aliens could soon be vindicated as NASA takes a fresh look into the unknown entities flying in our skies. 
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Back to the moon

Space: not just for billionaires, anymore. Or at least that’s what NASA hopes to prove when it launches the most powerful rocket it has ever built today.

Why it matters: The mission, dubbed Artemis I, is the first step to returning people to the moon, a goal NASA hopes to achieve by 2025.
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