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[:es] The Arctic Is Now Leaking Out High Concentrations of ‘Forever Chemicals’ [:]

[:es]Polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are known as ‘forever chemicals’ because they don’t naturally break down in the environment. Now a new study reveals the increasing pace of Arctic ice melt is leaking more of these chemicals into the environment.[:]
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[:es] ‘Magic-Angle’ Graphene Discovered to Have a Very Rare Form of Superconductivity [:]

[:es]’Magic angle’ twisted trilayer graphene doesn’t only have an impressively exotic name, it might be a particularly rare type of superconductor, according to new research – one that could be useful everywhere from medical equipment to quantum computers.[:]
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[:es] Scientists Are Giving AI The Ability to Imagine Things It’s Never Seen Before [:]

[:es]Artificial intelligence (AI) is proving very adept at certain tasks – like inventing human faces that don’t actually exist, or winning games of poker – but these networks still struggle when it comes to something humans do naturally: imagine.[:]
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[:es] We Now Have Precise Math to Describe How Black Holes Reflect The Universe [:]

[:es]A new set of equations can precisely describe the reflections of the Universe that appear in the warped light around a black hole.[:]
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[:es] An Entire Swarm of Black Holes Has Been Caught Moving Through The Milky Way [:]

[:es]A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.[:]
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[:es] Astronomers Detect a Lurking Cosmic Cloud, Bigger Than The Entire Milky Way [:]

[:es]In the yawning vacuum of intergalactic space, something large is lurking.[:]
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[:es] Methane Keeps Showing Up on Mars. NASA Just Got Closer to Solving The Mystery [:]

[:es]Methane is an organic molecule that hangs around in Earth’s atmosphere and is mostly produced by living organisms, most notoriously by farting cows. Its detection on Mars, on the other hand, has been a weird mystery for planetary scientists. [:]
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[:es] ‘Fool’s Gold’ Actually Contains a Newly Discovered Type of Real Gold, Scientists Find [:]

[:es]Ironically, pyrite crystals can contain small amounts of real gold, although it is notoriously hard to extract. [:]
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[:es] Earth’s Atmosphere Could Be a Truly Rare Thing, Thanks to One Chemical Process [:]

[:es]Life currently has a sample size of just one. Without an alien or two to expand the boundaries of biology, Earth’s evolutionary history sets the limits on whether we can expect other planets to spawn complex critters like, well, us.[:]