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Interstellar tunnel discovered near our solar system - could lead to other star systems
Astronomers have mapped the Local Hot Bubble, revealing its complex shape and a tunnel that could connect to other galactic structures
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Scientists Make Breakthrough in Warping Time at Smallest Scale Ever
Scientists were able to measure time dilation at a distance of just a millimeter, about the width of a pencil tip.
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Astrophysicist claims he has cracked the code for time travel
After years of research, Professor Mallett claims to have finally developed the revolutionary equation for time travel.
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Paradox-Free Time Travel is Mathematically Possible: Study | Sci.News
Time travel with free will is logically possible in our Universe without any paradox, according to new research from the University of Queensland.
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Starship vs. Saturn V: What's the Difference?
Discover the key differences between SpaceX's Starship and NASA's Saturn V, including design, purpose, and technological advancements.
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Scientists Just Spotted Evidence of ‘Negative Time’
But don’t dust off the DeLorean quite yet.
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A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality | MIT Technology Review
Back in 1961, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Eugene Wigner outlined a thought experiment that demonstrated one of the lesser-known paradoxes of quantum mechanics. The experiment shows how the strange nature of the universe allows two observers—say,
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New Support for Alternative Quantum View | Quanta Magazine
An experiment claims to have invalidated a decades-old criticism against pilot-wave theory, an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics that eliminates the…
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New 'impossible' discovery could make computers 400 times faster
Researchers have created one-way superconductivity, paving the way for superconductors to supersede semiconductors in electronics.
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What are wormholes? An astrophysicist explains these shortcuts through space-time
An astrophysicist explains what wormholes are and how these theoretical space-time tunnels have popped up in the solutions to some equations.
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Scientists are using quantum squeezing to push the limits of their sensors | MIT Technology Review
Physicists are engineering where uncertainty shows up in quantum systems, which has applications for detecting gravitational waves, and potentially more mainstream uses, including quantum computers, navigation, and microscopy.
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Quantum tunnels allow particles to break the light-speed barrier - Earth.com
In the fascinating realm of quantum physics, particles seem to defy the laws of classical mechanics. One such area is quantum tunneling.
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Graviton: We've glimpsed something that behaves like a particle of gravity | New Scientist
Gravitons, the particles thought to carry gravity, have never been seen in space – but something very similar has been detected in a semiconductor
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Chip that entangles four photons opens up possibility of inviolable quantum encryption
Unlike classical encryption, which relies on mathematical algorithms, quantum encryption assures security based on physical principles. Detection of espionage or interference is guaranteed by unavoidable alteration of the ...
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A New Supercomputer Will Operate at Speeds 1,000 Times Faster Than the Fastest Modern Computer
Once online in 2030, it will make current speeds feel like dial-up.
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Real-Life Tractor Beam Tech Could Revolutionize Medicine
Scientists have taken steps toward building a real-life tractor beam, promising less invasive medical procedures and transforming healthcare.
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New Hidden 'Edge State' May Lead to Practically Infinite Energy
Scientists found quantum edge states in ultracold sodium atoms, possibly leading to highly efficient energy systems with minimal loss.
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Astronomers Were Skeptical About Dark Matter — Until Vera Rubin Came Along
She built a bulletproof case for exploring the concept. Vera Rubin didn’t “discover” dark matter, but she put it on the map.
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Physicists find superconductor behavior at temperatures once thought 'impossible' | Live Science
Scientists have observed an unexpected new behavior in a superconducting material. If physicists can figure out the cause, it could help them to find room-temperature superconductors.
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Scientists create weird 'time crystal' from atoms inflated to be hundreds of times bigger than normal | Live Science
By blowing atoms up to several hundred times their size, researchers have been able to make another type of oddly-behaving time crystal.
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Longstanding physics mystery may soon be solved, thanks to Einstein and quantum computing | Live Science
The nature of quantum entanglement remains an outstanding problem in physics. But Albert Einstein's theories, along with insights from quantum computing, could finally put the mystery to rest.
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Star Trek's Science Advisor On How Starfleet Quietly Fixed Relativity
Could warp drive actually work? According to Dr. Erin Macdonald, Star Trek's science advisor, the answer is yes. But a recent moment in 'Discovery' Season 5 finally fixed an old Star Trek problem.
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What is quantum gravity?
Quantum gravity is an attempt to unite the incompatible worlds of quantum mechanics and gravity. We explore it in more detail here.
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World's largest nuclear fusion reactor is finally completed. But it won't run for another 15 years. | Live Science
ITER, a $28 billion fusion reactor in France, has finally had its last magnetic coil installed. But the reactor itself won't fire up fully until 2039 at the earliest.
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NASA predicts 'once-in-a-lifetime event' this summer – 5 things you need to know
NASA scientists say an impending nova event this summer will be so bright that it can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. "It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event," NASA said.
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Capacitor Breakthrough: 19-Fold Increase in Energy Storage Potential
The latest advancement in capacitor technology offers a 19-fold increase in energy storage, potentially revolutionizing power sources for EVs and devices.
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Tweak to Schrödinger's cat equation could unite Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, study hints | Live Science
Physicists have proposed modifications to the infamous Schrödinger's cat paradox that could help explain why quantum particles can exist in more than one state simultaneously, while large objects (like the universe) seemingly cannot.
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A Paradigm Shift in RAM Is About to Make Computing Unstoppable
Scientists unlocked the secret to blazing-fast memory.
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'Light Speed' Electrons Discovered Moving in 4 Dimensions For The First Time : ScienceAlert
An elusive behavior of electrons has finally been isolated from more mundane electron activity in a real-world material.
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See the X-59, NASA's new supersonic jet
NASA’s new supersonic jet, the X-59, goes so fast it can’t have a windshield. Here’s how pilots will fly it.
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How the SR-71 Was Retired for Good (Even Though It Was the Fastest Plane Ever)
X It could cross continents in just a few hours, and at 80,000 feet, the Blackbird could survey 100,000 square miles of the ground below per hour. No other U.S. Air Force aircraft could fly faster or higher than the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird,” and on its
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Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’
Here’s visible proof for the first time ever.
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Quantum batteries could charge by breaking our understanding of time
Causality is key to our experience of reality: dropping a glass, for example, causes it to smash, so it can’t smash before it’s dropped. But scientists have now demonstrated how that understanding of time can be violated to charge a quantum battery.
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What the Heck Is a Time Crystal, and Why Are Physicists Obsessed With Them?
Some of today’s quantum physicists are tinkering with an esoteric phase of matter that seems to disobey some of our laws of physics.
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What is the shape of space itself? - Big Think
Einstein's theory of general relativity introduced the concept of space having a shape. So, what is the shape of space?
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It's Official: For The First Time Neutrinos Have Been Detected in a Collider Experiment : ScienceAlert
The ghost, at long last, is actually in the machine.
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Twists in Spacetime Might Explain Some of The Brightest Objects in The Universe
A 3D model of a black hole's erratic feeding pattern reveals a potential explanation for the bizarre behavior of quasars with a dimmer switch.
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Physicists discover what lies beyond a black hole's event horizon
Gravity exists in three dimensions within a black hole's geometry, whereas particle physics resides on its surface in two dimensions.
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10 Facts About Neutrinos, the Weirdest Particles in the Universe
Trillions of neutrinos zoom through you every second. Here's what you should know about these mysterious, nearly mass-less subatomic particles.
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An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe | Quanta Magazine
Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves pervading the cosmos. The cause? Probably supermassive black hole collisions, but more exotic options can’t be ruled out.
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Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?
Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics.
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Have Scientists Solved Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Paradox?
Scientists say they solved the Hawking information paradox, which states that information can neither be emitted from a black hole or preserved inside forever.
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Entangled quantum circuits further disprove Einstein's concept of local causality
A group of researchers led by Andreas Wallraff, Professor of Solid State Physics at ETH Zurich, has performed a loophole-free Bell test to disprove the concept of "local causality" formulated by Albert Einstein in response to quantum mechanics.
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Scientists Actually Built a Working Tractor Beam: How It Works
Scientists built a working tractor beam—the first example of one that pulls objects visible to the naked eye. That's a huge deal.
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Scientists believe they have discovered a portal to the Fifth Dimension
In a new study, scientists say that a particle that links to a fifth dimension can explain dark matter. (The previous article has been up...
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Scientists X-ray a Single Atom for the First Time
It took quantum tunneling and a particle accelerator to get the job done
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How a Tardigrade "Micro Animal" Became Quantum Entangled with Superconducting Qubit | Discover Magazine
Physicists have extended the conditions in which life can exist further than ever before.
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First Demonstration of Energy Teleportation | Discover Magazine
It's not just information that can move from one point in the universe to another, without passing through the space in between.
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Alignment of galaxies millions of light years away supports general relativity
Scientists from research institutions including Kyoto University have confirmed that the intrinsic alignments of galaxies have characteristics that allow it to be a powerful probe of dark matter and dark energy on a cosmological scale.
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What is the double-slit experiment, and why is it so important?
The double-slit experiment is one of the most important demonstrations in quantum physics, and it completely upends what we thought we knew about reality.
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Radical NASA Propulsion Concept Could Reach Interstellar Space in Under 5 Years : ScienceAlert
A newly proposed propulsion system could theoretically beam a heavy spacecraft to outside the confines of our Solar System in less than 5 years – a feat that took the historic Voyager 1 probe 35 years to achieve.
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How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities - Nautilus
Richard Feynman’s path integral is both a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy about how the world is. But physicists are still struggling to figure out how to use it, and what it means.
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Precise characterization of a corridor-shaped structure in Khufu’s Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons - Nature Communications
Khufu’s Pyramid is one of the largest archaeological monuments in the world, and still contains unexplored voids. Here, the authors use cosmic-ray muon radiography in multiple positions to precisely characterize one of these inner structures called the
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Requiem for a string: Charting the rise and fall of a theory of everything | Ars Technica
String theory was supposed to explain all of physics. What went wrong?
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20 Paradoxes That Will Boggle Your Mind
A good paradox can befuddle the best of us. If you're in the mood to narrow your brow at seemingly irreconcilable facts, have we got a list for you.
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Scientists Actually Built a Working Tractor Beam: How It Works
Scientists built a working tractor beam—the first example of one that pulls objects visible to the naked eye. That's a huge deal.
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Nuclear reactor mystery solved, with no need for new particles | Science | AAAS
One piece of evidence for weird sterile neutrinos evaporates
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The paradox of light goes beyond wave-particle duality - Big Think
Einstein helped us understand the dual nature of light, which can act as both a particle and a wave. But, light continues to perplex us.
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Invisibility shield: A UK-based company designs invisibility shields that you can buy today
Invisibility shields were an internet rage a few years ago. Now, they are a reality that you can get your hands on.
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A Physicist Came Up With Math That Shows 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Is Plausible : ScienceAlert
No one has yet managed to travel through time – at least to our knowledge – but the question of whether or not such a feat would be theoretically possible continues to fascinate scientists.
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Man Cut His Helicopter Engines Midair to Prove Neil deGrasse Tyson Wrong
A YouTuber decided to show that a helicopter can land safely when the engine is switched off, contrary to what Neil deGrasse Tyson suggests.
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Physicists Have Achieved The Smallest Measurement Yet of a Ghost Particle's Mass
Earlier this year, decaying isotopes of hydrogen gave us the smallest measurement yet of the mass of a neutrino.
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If the universe is expanding, how are the Milky Way and Andromeda getting closer together?
Recent data from Hubble suggests that the Universe is expanding at a rate of around 73km per megaparsec (3.26 million light-years).
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Why the [expletive] can’t we travel back in time? | Ars Technica
If the inability to time travel were a fundamental part of our Universe, you’d expect equally fundamental physics behind that rule.
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This is Huge: Scientists Successfully 'Warp' Time In The Lab, Based On Einstein's Theory
Recently, scientists were able to "warp" time on the smallest scale ever. Time may be warped in the presence of high gravitational fields/high speeds,
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The General Relativity Rabbit Hole: Unraveling Space, Time and the Fourth Dimension - CNET
Parsing Albert Einstein's theory of our universe -- an idea that's utterly mind-bending, yet seemingly shatterproof.
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Scientists Fed the Fibonacci Sequence Into a Quantum Computer and Something Strange Happened
By shooting a laser pulse imitating the Fibonacci Sequence into qubits, physicists created a new phase of matter far better at maintaing a quantum state.
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Quantum Experiment Breaks Reality By Seeing Two Versions Of Reality Existing At The Same Time - Blog The Space Academy
We are aware of how skewed our perception of reality is. How we see the world is shaped by our senses, our societies, and our knowledge.
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Breakthrough rocket engine could travel at 99% the speed of light
When it comes to space, there's a problem with our human drive to go all the places and see all things. A big problem. It's, well, space.
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One of the most extreme black hole collisions in the universe just proved Einstein right
The black hole twisted 10 billion times faster than any ever observed.
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Why do galaxies spin?
The Universe begins with negligible amounts of angular momentum, which is always conserved. So why do planets, stars, and galaxies all spin?
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Astronomers Witness Light Delayed by Almost 7 Years as It's Warped by a Galaxy Cluster
Way back in 1979, astronomers spotted two nearly identical quasars that seemed close to each other in the sky. These so-called 'Twin Quasars' are actually separate images of the same object.
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Why gravitational waves are the future of astronomy
We only detected our very first gravitational wave in 2015. Over the next two decades, we'll have thousands more.
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An AI Just Independently Discovered Alternate Physics
Grab any physics textbook and you'll find formula after formula describing how things wobble, fly, swerve and stop. The formulas describe actions we can observe, but behind each could be sets of factors that aren't immediately obvious.
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Why is gravity so weak? The answer may lie in the very nature of space-time
The answer to the question "why is gravity so weak?" may lie in the very nature of space-time
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This galaxy cluster is so massive it warps space-time and bends light
An image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy cluster named Abell 1351, so unimaginably massive it is bending space-time itself.
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Astronomers are detecting exoplanets using a technique predicted by Einstein
Microlensing works when light from a background star is bent around the mass of an exoplanet, making the background star brighter for a short time.
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Scientists discovered a never-before-seen particle and it could be dark matter
Physicists have discovered a new, mysterious particle that they believe could be a candidate for dark matter.
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The speed of sound on Mars is different from Earth, Perseverance rover finds
Lower-pitched sounds travel more slowly on Mars than higher-pitched ones, according to new data from NASA's Perseverance rover.
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Was Einstein wrong? The case against space-time theory.
Was Einstein wrong? His theory of space-time may have to be killed off if we want to better understand the universe.
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Is teleportation possible?
Coulda Star Trek-style teleportation machine ever exist, and could human teleportation ever be achieved? We examine the science behind the fiction.
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Rotating Black Holes Could Make Hyperspace Travel Finally Within Reach
One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe. That fantasy may be closer to reality than previously imagined.
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Finally, a Fusion Reaction Has Generated More Energy Than Absorbed by The Fuel
A major milestone has been breached in the quest for fusion energy.
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Warp drives: Physicists give chances of faster-than-light space travel a boost
If humanity ever wants to travel easily between stars, people will need to go faster than light.
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How Strong Is King Kong? And Could He Even Stand Up?
In physics, big things are not like small things. Here's what that means for a giant gorilla.
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Physics Explains Why Time Passes Faster As You Age
Mind time cannot be measured on a watch.
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A Child’s Puzzle Has Helped Unlock the Secrets of Magnetism
People have known about magnets since ancient times, but the physics of ferromagnetism remains a mystery. Now a familiar puzzle is getting physicists closer to the answer.
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Arecibo Observatory to Close Its Giant Eye on the Sky - Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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What The 3 Biggest Physics Discoveries Of The Decade Mean For The Future Of Science
Finding the Higgs boson, gravitational waves, and imaging a black hole's event horizon were huge. There's even more to the story.
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Warp speeds in 'Star Trek' are achingly slow, and a simple animation by a former NASA scientist proves it
The animation shows how long it takes the starship "Enterprise" in "Star Trek" to reach Pluto at warp factors that break the known laws of physics.
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Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
Austrian and Chinese scientists have succeeded in teleporting three-dimensional quantum states for the first time. High-dimensional teleportation could play an important role in future quantum computers.
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Here’s why everything you thought you knew about gravity is wrong
Unless you think hard about gravity, your brain associates gravity with your relationship to the ground beneath your feet
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For a Split Second, a (Simulated) Particle Went Backward in Time - The New York Times
Using a quantum computer, physicists successfully reversed time for an artificial atom. You can even try it at home.
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For The First Time, Physicists Have Clocked The Ghostly Speed of Quantum Tunnelling
In quantum physics, particles can 'tunnel' through seemingly impenetrable barriers, even when they apparently don't have the energy to do so. Now, researchers have gleaned behind the curtain to better understand how this trick is done.
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Curious Kids: If an insect is flying in a car while it is moving, does the insect have to move at the same speed?
If the insect wants to stay right in front of your nose, it must fly forwards just a little bit when the car is speeding up. But when the car is at constant speed, it only needs to hover.
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How quantum physics can make Israel more secure
The prime minister's freshly announced project recruits some revolutionary technologies and excites scientists
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The Supposedly Physics-Defying NASA Thruster Doesn't Work, New Research Confirms
If you want to send something deep, deep into space, it’s impractical to load it up with lots of heavy propellant. Scientists with their eyes on long-distance space travel have contemplated thrusters that wouldn’t need any propellant at all. The EmDri
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The Physics of SpaceX's Wicked Double Booster Landing | WIRED
What can we learn from the video of the simultaneous landings?
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Lego is helping physics students stay in school, 'cos it's the best
Teachers at Flinders University in Australia are using Lego cars to help physics students understand concepts like measurement error and variability.
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The Universe Is as Spooky as Einstein Thought - The Atlantic
In a brilliant new experiment, physicists have confirmed one of the most mysterious laws of the cosmos.
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9 Things You May Not Know About Nikola Tesla - History Lists
Check out some fascinating facts about the Serbian-American physicist and engineer.
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Your Brain Has A 'Physics Engine' And Scientists Have Located It
The brain knows instinctively how to predict when accidents are about to happen.
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Physicists Prove Classical Music Inhabits Separate Realm, Inaccessible To Humans
Physicists released a report Wednesday revealing that classical music exists in a field of reality entirely removed from 4D spacetime.
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Why Spider-Man Wouldn’t Actually Be Able to Climb Walls | Mental Floss
A new study calculates that almost half his body would have to be covered in adhesive pads to allow him to scale a building.
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Nobel Prize in Physics Won by Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for Work on Neutrinos
Two scientists from Japan and Canada have won the Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries relating to neutrinos, which increased understanding of matter and the universe.
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The Physics Of Star Trek: Why Faster Than Light Communication Is Not In Anybody's Future - Forbes
Nearly 50 years after Star Trek’s first television incarnation, subspace communications, which enabled secure faster than light galactic communications will likely remain science fiction.
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LHC physicists discover five-quark particle
Pentaquarks are no longer just a theory.
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What if the universe had no beginning? | Science Wire | EarthSky
Reports of the death of the Big Bang have been greatly exaggerated. Big Bang theory is alive and well. At the same time, our universe may not have a beginning
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5 Ways Einstein Was a Regular Guy
A new, free digital archive of his personal papers reveals what we all share with the 20th century's greatest mind.
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New Clock May End Time As We Know It : NPR
Scientists working to create the perfect atomic clock have a fundamental problem: Right now, on the ceiling, time is passing just a bit faster than it is on the floor.
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Scientists come a step closer to making Star Trek's tractor beam a reality | Public Radio International
Science fiction has long envisioned "tractor" beams that could grab and move physical objects using a laser or other stream of energy. Now scientists have created one, at least on a small scale. And we have some advice if you use heat in the win
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8 Times Physics Broke - brainjet.com
It seems things don't always work the way you'd expect, these creations appear to defy the laws of physics!
