How the novel became a laboratory for experimental physics
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Moon
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The sham legacy of Richard Feynman
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Astronomers take the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy
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James Webb Space Telescope finds stunning evidence for alternate theory of gravity
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Google used millions of Android phones to map the worst enemy of GPS--the ionosphere
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Mitochondria are alive
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Yes, we did discover the Higgs!
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Can we ever detect the graviton? (No, but why not?)
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2024 Nobel Prize – This year's Nobel Prize announcements will take place between 7th - 14th October 2024
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Why is the speed of light so fast?
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An astrophysicist attempts to measure the physics of Outer Wilds
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Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and vastly cheaper than mined diamonds. Beating nature took decades of hard graft and millions of pounds of pressure.
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Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?
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Nuclear breakthrough (laser excitation of nuclei) could improve clocks/measurement and detect variance in currently-believed fundamental constants
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Webb finds early galaxies weren’t too big for their britches after all
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How far away are we from the location of the Big Bang?
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Arecibo "Wow!" signal likely caused by rare astrophysical event
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Black holes can’t be created by light
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Breakthrough in nuclear spectroscopy would lead to more accurate clocks
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Chicago’s NASCAR Race is a marvel of physics
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‘Story Of Your Life’ is not a time-travel story (2018)
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Neutrinos: The inscrutable “ghost particles” driving scientists crazy
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Science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin made Schrödinger’s cat famous
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Paper showcasing a simulation of gravitational waves produced by a warp drive
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Why 3D printing buildings leads to problems
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Les atomes
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NSF halts South Pole megaproject to probe infant cosmos’ growth spurt
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The (simple) theory that explains everything | Neil Turok
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Does light itself truly have an infinite lifetime?
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Super Mario 64's invisible walls explained once and for all
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Nobel Prize-winning phycisist Peter Higgs died at 94. About sixty years ago he proposed the Higgs Boson, an elememtary particle essential in describing mass in the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94
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xkcd: Machine
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Unraveling Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the GRU's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on US officials and their families
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Beyond solid, liquid, and gas: The seven states of matter
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The Minecraft boat-drop mystery
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The mystery of spinors
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When you make a mathematical knot using elastic material you get jumping loops, and challenging puzzles
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How the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird works
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Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion
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Why it’s so challenging to land upright on the Moon
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Airfoil
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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea
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Astronomers accidentally discover dark primordial galaxy without stars
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Arno Penzias, co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background, has died age 90
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