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  1. Scientists Begin Building AI for Scientific Discovery Using Tech Behind ChatGPT

  2. Bursts of Star Formation Explain Mysterious Brightness at Cosmic Dawn

  3. Researchers Create First-Ever Map of a Single Animal’s Early Visual System

  4. We Finally Know Why Quantum ‘Strange Metals’ Are So Strange

  5. Twinkling of Giant Stars Reveals How Their Innards Churn in First-Ever Simulations

  6. Clamor of Gravitational Waves From Universe’s Merging Supermassive Black Holes ‘Heard’ for First Time

  7. New Research Clarifies Connection Between Autism and the Microbiome

  8. Map of Space-Time Distortions Reveals Universe’s Dark Matter Distribution, Proving Einstein Right

  9. Artificial Intelligence Discovers Secret Equation for ‘Weighing’ Galaxy Clusters

  10. Why Don’t Disease-Linked Genetic Mutations Always Result in Disease? A Study in Fruit Flies Offers New Clues

  11. New Testing Approach Diagnoses COVID-19 With Near-Perfect Accuracy

  12. Doomed Pair of Supermassive Black Holes the Closest to Collision Ever Seen

  13. How the ‘Hell Planet’ Got So Hot

  14. Artificial Intelligence Reduces a 100,000-Equation Quantum Physics Problem to Only 4 Equations

  15. New SPARK Study Identifies a Novel Group of Inherited Genes of Moderate Effect and Shows Their Links to Other Behavioral Conditions

  16. One of the Universe’s Earliest Galaxies Revealed Using the James Webb Space Telescope

  17. Neural Networks and ‘Ghost’ Electrons Accurately Reconstruct Behavior of Quantum Systems

  18. Strange New Phase of Matter Created in Quantum Computer Acts Like It Has 2 Time Dimensions

  19. Origin of Supermassive Black Hole Flares Identified: Largest-Ever Simulations Suggest Flickering Powered by Magnetic ‘Reconnection’

  20. ‘Quantum Friction’ Slows Water Flow Through Carbon Nanotubes, Resolving Long-Standing Fluid Dynamics Mystery

  21. Paradoxical Material a Mashup of 3 Different Phases at Once, Quantum Physicists Find

  22. Astrophysicists Reveal Largest-Ever Suite of Universe Simulations

  23. Cracking a Mystery of Massive Black Holes and Quasars With Supercomputer Simulations

  24. Nearby Star-Forming Region Yields Clues to the Formation of Our Solar System

  25. Black Holes Flicker When They Eat, Revealing Their Size

  26. Magnetic ‘Balding’ of Black Holes Saves General Relativity Prediction

  27. Rare Inherited Variants in Previously Unsuspected Genes May Confer Significant Risk for Autism

  28. Ultrafast Microscope Observes Quick-Moving Excitation That Could Be a Long Sought Phase of Matter

  29. Shrinking Planets Could Explain Mystery of Universe’s Missing Worlds

  30. New Application of Artificial Intelligence Just Removed One of the Biggest Roadblocks in Astrophysics

  31. Quantum Showdown: Competing Methods of Solving Quantum Systems Put to the Test

  32. Fruit Fly Egg Takes an Active Hand in Its Own Growth, Highlighting Parallels to Mammals

  33. Switching Nanolight On and Off

  34. Mathematics Explains How Giant Whirlpools Form in Developing Egg Cells

  35. Molecular Processes in Kidney Cells May ‘Prime’ Diabetics for COVID-19 Infection

  36. Infinitely Long Chains of Hydrogen Atoms Have Surprising Properties, Including a Metallic Phase

  37. Massive Halo Finally Explains Stream of Gas Swirling Around the Milky Way

  38. Quantum Physicists Crack Mystery of ‘Strange Metals,’ a New State of Matter

  39. New View of Nature’s Oldest Light Adds Fresh Twist to Debate Over Universe’s Age

  40. Artificial Intelligence Predicts Which Planetary Systems Will Survive

  41. Plasticity May Make Neurons Vulnerable to Alzheimer’s Disease

  42. Why Pulsars Shine Bright: A Half-Century-Old Mystery Solved

  43. Cosmic Rays May Have Given Life Its Shape

  44. Machine Learning Cracks Quantum Chemistry Conundrum

  45. The Milky Way’s Impending Galactic Collision Is Already Birthing New Stars

  46. LIGO-Virgo Network Catches Another Neutron Star Collision

  47. ‘Ringing’ Black Hole Validates Einstein’s General Relativity 10 Years Ahead of Schedule

  48. Mystery Solved About the Machines That Move Your Genes