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Three researchers have found a long-sought way to pull information from large databases secretly, moving us closer to fully private internet searches.

Three computer scientists have disproved a long-standing conjecture about a fundamental problem involving imperfect information.

The development of attosecond pulses of light allowed researchers to explore the frame-by-frame movement of electrons....

Because the areas around adult trees are selectively hostile to their seedlings, more tree species can be packed into tropical forests.

Sticking out your tongue while doing delicate work with your hands reveals a history of evolutionary relationships.

if any ;)

In their jiggles and shakes, red giant stars encode a record of the magnetic fields near their cores.

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Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed a surprising number of young galaxies containing massive black holes at their centers, churning up the gas within only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Spectroscopic data indicates that these “hidden little monsters” harbor black holes weighing...

Years before she was even sure the James Webb Space Telescope would successfully launch, Christina Eilers started planning a conference for astronomers specializing in the early universe. She knew that if — preferably, when — JWST started making observations, she and her colleagues would have a lot to talk about. Like a time...

Not what I initially expected this article to be about, but I do love this kind of cross-cutting research that takes ideas from one field and applies them to a seemingly entirely different field. (Also makes me wish I’d been able to take a topology class at some point.)

New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly haphazard magnetic fields swaddling our solar system’s planets.

By measuring the universe’s emptiest spaces, scientists can study how matter clumps together and how fast it flies apart.

It encapsulated the fact that a species could have high mortality at one point in its life cycle, then low mortality at another, while a complementary species might have low mortality at the first point and high mortality at the second. The more similar this term was for two species, the more likely it was that a pair could live...