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- Are the roots of consciousness hidden in the ancient deep brain?
on May 28, 2026 at 3:00 pmSome neuroscientists argue that the roots of experience lie deep inside the brain. If they’re right, the consciousness club will get a lot bigger
- Trump plan to give start-ups plutonium harvested from Cold War–era nuclear weapons is risky, experts sayon May 28, 2026 at 2:30 pm
Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S.
- The ‘age of gravitational astronomy’ is hereon May 28, 2026 at 9:00 am
A record-setting collection of precisely measured gravitational waves reveals new information about how black holes behave and evolve
- A quantum computing system’s perfect randomness could keep your secrets safeon May 27, 2026 at 7:00 pm
Generating and confirming the randomness of qubits could lead to breakthroughs in computer data encryption
- The secret to immortality might be a sea cucumberon May 27, 2026 at 6:00 pm
The discarded fragments of this creature apparently refuse to die, leading researchers to claim immortality