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Meet the Zeptosecond, the Smallest Slice of Time Yet Recorded
Using an two types of lasers, researchers measured the ejection of helium electrons with previously unheard of precision
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Why Theoretical Physicist Sylvester James Gates Sees No Conflict Between Science and Religion
“I got used to the idea that questions had answers.”
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NASA’s New, Super-Efficient Airplane Wing Comes With a Twist
The agency and several universities have designed a flexible wing that could reduce the cost of building and fueling airplanes
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Using Math to Build the Ultimate Taffy Machine
A mathematician dives into taffy-pulling patents to achieve optimum confection creation
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Nobel Physics Prize Goes to Exploration of Exotic Matter, Explained in Bagels
Winners probed superconductors and superfluids, launching the ongoing hunt for strange phases of matter
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Scientists Catch Schrödinger’s Cat on Camera
No cats were harmed in the making of this science
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Scientists Have Found The Most Efficient Way to Hold a Coffee Mug
Drinking it is a different story
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Soon Everyone Will Be Able to Read NASA-Funded Research
Get ready for a lot more space science
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Researchers Discover the Blue Whirl, a New Type of Flame
Naturally occurring fire tornadoes are scary, but a new clean-burning, controlled version could help clean oil spills
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Must the Molecules of Life Always be Left-Handed or Right-Handed?
They are on Earth, but life on other planets could play by different rules
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Researcher Discovers First Written Evidence of Laws of Friction in Leonardo Da Vinci’s Notebooks
A scientific breakthrough was dismissed as a useless doodle—until now
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Physicists May Have Finally Figured Out Why Knuckleballs Are So Hard to Hit
All with the help of a ball-throwing robot
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Beneath that fluffy exterior lies a shrewd understanding of how the world works
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Gravitational Waves Strike Twice
Scientists announce the second detection of gravitational waves
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Tune Into the Smashing Sounds of Large Hadron Collider Data in Real Time
Grooves made by groundbreaking physics
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NASA Finally Caught This Crazy Space Weather in Action
The interactions between the Earth and the Sun’s magnetic fields drive explosive space weather
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Take in the Beauty of This Gravity Web That Connects Galaxies Across the Universe
A new simulation visualizes how distant galaxies might be connected
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Explore 300 Terabytes of CERN Data Now Free to Download
CERN’s latest data dump includes raw information from the Large Hadron Collider
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Can Physicists Ever Prove the Multiverse Is Real?
Astronomers are arguing about whether they can trust this untested—and potentially untestable—idea
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