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Parker Solar Probe finds order inside the solar wind's chaos

In the turbulent solar wind, magnetic fields flip the way they spin at very small scales, a pattern now seen directly for the first time.

The star that keeps 'exploding' but never dies

X-ray data from NASA's Chandra reveal a hidden partner, a neutron star or a black hole, behind the repeated outbursts of the giant star AT 2016blu.

Will asteroid miners crash the price of platinum?

Two MIT researchers simulated what happens to platinum-group metal prices once companies start bringing metal home from asteroids.

Could tiny whirlpools on the Sun heat its corona?

A new study argues that millions of small plasma vortices on the Sun's surface carry enough energy to explain why its outer atmosphere is so hot.

🤖 AI & Technology

Hugging Face promises to keep open-source AI alive

After Jensen Huang left Nvidia, the CEO of Hugging Face, which Nvidia agreed to buy for $12.9 billion, vowed to keep fighting for open AI.

Nvidia's founder Jensen Huang steps down

Jensen Huang, who co-founded Nvidia and led it to the centre of the AI boom, has left the company; finance chief Colette Kress is now interim CEO.

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When AI found a planet humans missed Sample

A neural network spotted an eighth planet around the star Kepler-90.

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How does an AI chatbot write? Sample

It builds every answer one small piece at a time.

📈 Crypto & Economy

📈 Crypto & Economy

Japan's Nomura weighs selling its crypto arm

Nomura is reportedly in talks about selling Laser Digital, its Swiss-based crypto business, as its European operations keep losing money.

🌍 World Tech

🌍 World Tech

Lego's BrickLink marketplace goes dark after 'unusual activity'

Lego has kept BrickLink, the popular second-hand Lego marketplace, offline for days while it investigates an unexplained problem.