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The optimism of de-extinction science in a warming world.

A once-impossible new technique creates fusion energy with powerful lasers and without radioactive fuel.

Behind the broad, swift market slide of 2018 is an underlying new reality: Roughly 85% of all trading is on autopilot—controlled by machines, models, or passive investing formulas, creating an unprecedented trading herd that moves in unison and is blazingly fast.

The majority of trades come from machines, models, or passive investing formulas that move in unison and blazingly fast. This quarter’s sharp declines are symptoms of the modern market’s sensitivities, the same ones that drove gains through the first three-quarters of the year.

A series of remarkable astronomical images have been released by a team of scientists.

Stunning new images of young planetary systems create a profound cosmic perspective.

• By Caleb A. Scharf on December 13, 2018

Imagine reading by plant light, and glow-in-the-dark trees instead of street lamps. That’s on the horizon thanks to these engineers.

The stunning success of AlphaZero, a deep-learning algorithm, heralds a new age of insight — one that, for humans, may not last long.

When a biofilm has eaten every nearby nutrient it can, bacteria synchronize vortex-like patterns to grab more distant food.

You won’t want to miss next month’s super blood wolf moon eclipse. Mark your calendars for Jan. 20.

Technically, next month’s lunar event could be called a super blood wolf moon eclipse.

Starting Jan. 20, a total lunar eclipse, or blood moon, that coincides with a supermoon, will be visible throughout the United States. The event starts late in the evening Jan. 20 and finishes during the wee hours of Jan. 21.

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It could reveal our galaxy’s origins, but won’t be approved until 2019.