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An Undergraduate Student's Homework Could Solve A Major Problem With Quantum Computers

An undergraduate student was assigned to help with a problem that has challenged scientists for deca...

13 Apr 2021
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Heavy Water Tastes Sweet, Even Though It's Chemically Just Water

Heavy water is considered chemically almost identical to ordinary water, but we can detect and appre...

08 Apr 2021
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Heavy Water Tastes Sweet, Even Though It's Chemically Just Water

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Long-Anticipated Fermilab Results Strengthen Evidence For Brand New Physics

Muon particles are still behaving in a way not predicted by the Standard Model, so it looks like we ...

07 Apr 2021
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Long-Anticipated Fermilab Results Strengthen Evidence For Brand New Physics

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After Years Of Trying, Somebody Finally Just Cooked A Chicken By Slapping It

People have been attempting to cook chickens by slapping them for years, after learning that physics...

05 Apr 2021
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After Years Of Trying, Somebody Finally Just Cooked A Chicken By Slapping It

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Antimatter Has Been Chilled With A Laser For The First Time

For the first time a laser has been used to cool antihydrogen atoms to very cold temperatures, openi...

01 Apr 2021
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Antimatter Has Been Chilled With A Laser For The First Time

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Atomic Clocks Have Reached A Never-Before-Achieved Level Of Accuracy

Researchers from the Boulder Atomic Clock Optical Network (BACON) Collaboration were able to compare...

24 Mar 2021
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Atomic Clocks Have Reached A Never-Before-Achieved Level Of Accuracy

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How Algorithms Inspired By Social Media Increase Our Understanding Of Geomagnetic Substorms

The way substorms in the Earth's magnetosphere relate has been a mystery, but the algorithms that dr...

23 Mar 2021
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How Algorithms Inspired By Social Media Increase Our Understanding Of Geomagnetic Substorms

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Latest CERN Experiment Hints At Brand-New Physics

Decay of beauty quarks hint at a violation of lepton flavor universality...

23 Mar 2021
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Latest CERN Experiment Hints At Brand-New Physics

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There's A Simple Explanation For The 'Dark Watchers' Of Santa Lucia, Which Have Been Seen On The Mountains For Centuries

Hikers in the Santa Lucia Mountains of California have reported the presence of the "Dark Watchers" ...

18 Mar 2021
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Physicists Have Measured The Smallest Gravitational Field Yet

Scientists have measured the gravitational pull of two gold spheres about 2 millimeters in diameter ...

11 Mar 2021
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Physicists Have Measured The Smallest Gravitational Field Yet

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Anti-Matter From Beyond The Milky Way Proves 60-Year-Old Theory

An electron anti-neutrino with high-energy collided with an electron in the IceCube observatory prod...

10 Mar 2021
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Anti-Matter From Beyond The Milky Way Proves 60-Year-Old Theory

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Watch How A Youtuber Made An Old-Timey Iron Anvil Float

Youtuber and backyard experimenter Cody Don Reede showed how an iron anvil can float on mercury....

04 Mar 2021
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Precision X-Rays Reveal Contents Of Sealed And Folded 17th Century Letters

Powerful versions of dentistry precision X-rays allow historians to read letters without unfolding o...

02 Mar 2021
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Precision X-Rays Reveal Contents Of Sealed And Folded 17th Century Letters

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Watch The First Ever Video Of A Space-Time Crystal

A German-Polish collaboration has been able to conduct the first video-recording of space-time cryst...

26 Feb 2021
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Can The Laws Of Physics Disprove God?

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23 Feb 2021
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Can The Laws Of Physics Disprove God?

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Scientists Have Finally Worked Out The Truth About Iceberg Melting

Models of the way icebergs melt have used simplifications people knew were wrong. Now we finally hav...

16 Feb 2021
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Scientists Have Finally Worked Out The Truth About Iceberg Melting

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Ultrathin “Flying Disks” Could Levitate On Sunlight To Explore Earth’s Upper Atmosphere

Ultrathin mylar disks coated with carbon nanotubes below can fly in the mesosphere 50-80 kilometers ...

12 Feb 2021
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Ultrathin “Flying Disks” Could Levitate On Sunlight To Explore Earth’s Upper Atmosphere

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How Did This Man Put His Hand Through Molten Metal Without Killing Himself?

A video is doing the rounds on Reddit that shows a man with the apparent ability to put his hand in ...

12 Feb 2021
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How Did This Man Put His Hand Through Molten Metal Without Killing Himself?

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New Breakthrough In Graphene Superconductivity Pushes It To Higher Temperatures

A new graphene superconductor provides scientists with a new tool to understand how superconductivit...

05 Feb 2021
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Physicists Have Developed A 'Quantum' Hologram Using Entanglement

Holograms created using quantum-entangled photons help get around the limitations of current classic...

05 Feb 2021
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