An update of the convection code ASPECT enables full coupling of plume dynamics with buoyancy effects of transition zone ...

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Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

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The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

Yet again, the saga of the U.S. TikTok ban has entered a new chapter. After a fast-tracked Supreme Court decision upheld the law mandating that U.S. operations either be severed from Chinese ...

TEL AVIV — On lampposts, in shop windows and on smartphone screens across Israel, the posters show a smiling, red-headed baby boy clutching a pink elephant. And now the country is bracing to ...

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. THE JAILING of dissenters is nothing new in Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s most populous country, where faulting the ...