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11 Scientists Found a Room-Temperature Superconductor. Now 8 of Them Want a Retraction.

Sophie Caldwell

A team of 11 scientists reported in March in the journal Nature that they had discovered a room-temperature superconductor. Eight of those scientists have now asked Nature to retract their…

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A Tech Checklist for the Dark Side of Summer Weather

Sophie Caldwell

Summer is in full swing now, but along with vacation trips, camp and lazy days, extreme weather has arrived for many parts of the country. If you live in an…

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Ukraine’s War of Drones Runs Into an Obstacle: China

Sophie Caldwell

Surrounded by rooms filled with stacks of cluster munitions and half-made thermobaric bombs, a soldier from Ukraine’s 92nd Mechanized Brigade recently worked on the final part of a deadly supply…

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Threads: What to Know About Instagram’s ‘Twitter Killer’ App

Sophie Caldwell

After months of speculation and secrecy, Mark Zuckerberg’s long-rumored competitor app to Twitter is here.The new app, Threads, was unveiled on Wednesday as a companion to Instagram, the popular photo-sharing…

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A Founder of the Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Is Arrested

Sophie Caldwell

Su Zhu, a founder of the cryptocurrency fund Three Arrows Capital, was arrested on Friday in Singapore while trying to leave the country, the liquidators of the company said.Mr. Zhu,…

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Threads Becomes Most Rapidly Downloaded App as Twitter Threatens Meta

Sophie Caldwell

Two hours after pressing the launch button on Wednesday on Threads, Instagram’s new app for real-time, public conversations, Mark Zuckerberg posted that more than two million people had downloaded his…