Top news for December 21, 2008

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NASA Is Watching a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field

Human Thought Is Far Slower Than Your Internet Connection

E.P.A. Promotes Fertilizer Carrying PFAS, Long After 3M Shared Risks

In a Political Year, Some Deaths Spoke to the Struggles for Democracy

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Sends Signal Home

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes

Stunning Webb Discovery Forces Rethink of Planet Formation in the Early Universe

FAA Grants Bezos’ Blue Origin Launch License for New Glenn Rocket

Scientists Unveil World’s Smallest Molecular Machine

MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures. With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly.