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Ethereum developers are refining a zero-knowledge protocol designed to bring stronger privacy guarantees to on-chain interactions, starting with a “Secret Santa”-style matching system that could ...

A new strange observation is shaking up theories about 3I/ATLAS, the mysterious Manhattan-sized interstellar object that has been blazing through our solar system. The object, which has been… Massive ...

Virus infection real-time imaging visualizes viral RNA translation within cells in real-time, revealing the earliest events of viral infection when viral protein and RNA levels are low, as well as the ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made the shocking revelation that rogue government elements have been hiding the truth about contact with aliens for decades – even keeping U.S. presidents in the ...

Predator: Badlands is now officially the highest-grossing Predator movie of all-time, including the Alien crossover films. Dan Trachtenberg, who revitalized Predator with 2022’s back to basics Prey ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaking at the Urban League Empowerment Center in New York City, November 12, 2025. Credit: Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA via AP Images New York Gov. Kathy Hochul completely ...

As the comet heads toward its closest pass by Earth, a team led by NASA astrochemist Martin Cordiner used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to study the gases streaming off its ...

Surveying the state of America’s artificial intelligence landscape earlier this year, Misha Laskin was concerned. Laskin, a theoretical physicist and machine learning engineer who helped create some ...

Is there an Outer SpaceX? With 3I/ATLAS set to fly by Earth in just over a week, experts continue to speculate over its origins. Harvard Scientist Avi Loeb believes that if aliens, the comet wouldn’t ...