
Faced with a Data Deluge, Astronomers Turn to Automation
For better or worse, machine learning and big data are poised to transform the study of the heavens

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Faced with a Data Deluge, Astronomers Turn to Automation
For better or worse, machine learning and big data are poised to transform the study of the heavens

The Solar System’s Loneliest Planets, Revisited
Thirty years after a probe visited Neptune, many scientists say now is the time to finally return to that world and Uranus

Mysterious Neutrinos Get New Mass Estimate
Cosmic calculations suggest how massive nature’s lightest matter particle could be

The Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Baby Universe
Radio astronomers look to hydrogen for insights into the universe’s first billion years

The Road to Fusion
The construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world’s largest nuclear fusion experiment, is now 60 percent complete