How did the building blocks of life originate?The question has long vexed scientists. Early Earth was dotted with pools of water rich in chemicals—a...

IntroductionPhysicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious “dark” energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be slightly weakening with...

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IntroductionOn November 10, 2023, Kristín Jónsdóttir, head of the Icelandic Meteorological Office’s department of volcano research, was having a rare day off. “It was...

Author: Vitalik Buterin via the Vitalik Buterin Blog Special thanks to the Worldcoin and Modulus Labs teams, Xinyuan Sun, Martin Koeppelmann and Illia Polosukhin for...