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Symmetry reveals clues to three-dimensional universe
We already know about gravity since Newton’s hypothetical encounter with the apple, but we’re still struggling to understand it. While…
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How Resonance Physics Shapes Reality
Almost any time physicists announced that they have discovered a new particle, whether it is a Higgs boson or a…
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Physics of N95 Face Mask
You have seen them a million times. You are probably wearing one right now. But do you know how they…
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Physicists have created bubbles that can last for more than a year
Blow up soap bubbles never fails to please one’s inner child, perhaps because bubbles are ephemeral in nature, bursting after…
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What happens if a space elevator fails?
So what if instead of launching a chemical rocket to the top, your object could go up on a cable…
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A chaotic injection solves a decades-old liquid mystery
Liquids can roughly divided into two categories: the regular type and the exotic type. Common substances, like water and alcohol,…
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An important part of sci-fi space travel will probably just be fantasy
In Poul Anderson Novel 1970 Tau Zero, a spacecraft crew seeks to travel to the star Beta Virginis in hopes…
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Earth’s oceanography helps shed light on Jupiter’s flowing cyclones
Lia Siegelman was was just studying the swirling waters of the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, when she came across…
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Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning
So Dwyer and his team turned to the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a network of thousands of small radio telescopes…
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Physics of the James Webb . Space Telescope
There’s actually another good reason to use infrared light for JWST: It’s very difficult to get an unobstructed view of…
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