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A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

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A new research paper, published in the Science Advances journal, has postulated that rocky planets like ours may be far more ...

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"The cosmic dipole anomaly has thus established itself as a major challenge to the standard cosmological model, even if the ...