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Image: NASA Astronaut Gerald “Jerry” Carr died Wednesday at the age of 88. Selected for NASA’s astronaut program in April 1966, Carr performed Capcom tasks during the Apollo 8 and Apollo 12 missions and was involved in the development and testing of the lunar spacecraft (LRV) used by Apollo flight …

Google’s Sycamore processor installed in a cryostat, recently used to demonstrate quantum purity and the largest quantum chemistry simulation on a quantum computer. Credit: Rocco Ceselin A team of researchers with Google’s AI Quantum team (working with unspecified collaborators) has performed the largest chemical simulation to date on a quantum …

The information locked in black holes could be discovered by feeling their ‘hair’, new research suggests. Black holes are celestial objects with such a massive gravitational force that not even light can escape their claws once it crosses the event horizon, or point-of-no-return. The horizons of the events of black …

Complicating the emerging task of saving lives and livelihoods in this ongoing climate crisis: a new disease, released from a natural world out of balance. Two small enemies – coronavirus and heat-trapping gas – are joining forces to create pandemic patients in Lake Charles, Louisiana, worrying about blown roofs and …

Severe illness and death remain rare in children with Covid-19, a new study suggests, while differences may appear in children who may need critical care or have complications. © Dan Kitwood / Getty Images Children hold social distance measures in a schoolyard in London in June 2020. Pediatricians described the …