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The Ramanujan Summation: 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + ∞ = -1/12?
This is what my mom said to me when I told her about this little mathematical anomaly. And it is just that, an anomaly. After all, it defies basic logic. How could adding positive numbers equal not…
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How to Perform Calendar Calculations in Your Head
In less than 30 minutes, learn how to calculate which weekday any given date occurs on
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Russian Mine Yields Diamond-Within-Diamond Stone; First of its Kind
The stone weighs 0.62 carats, while the internal gem weighs 0.02 carats. It may be more than 800 million years old.
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Quantum Research News | What Is Quantum Superposition?
For the first time ever, physicists tested the phenomenon of quantum superposition using molecules. That's a big deal.
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Dutch inventor says his ocean cleaning boom is working
After a series of setbacks, a system for catching plastic floating in the Pacific between California and Hawaii is now working, its Dutch inventor said Wednesday. Boyan Slat, a university dropout who founded The Ocean Cleanup nonprofit, announced that the
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How NASA gave birth to modern computing—and gets no credit for it
The space agency and MIT’s bet on the integrated circuit kicked off the digital age.
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The Navy Says UFO Videos Are Real
The U.S. Navy says three leaked videos showing reported encounters between Navy aircraft and UFOs are real. And they were never meant to be released.
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The Mysterious Bronze Objects that Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries - Mental Floss - Pocket
The first dodecahedron was discovered nearly 300 years ago, yet no one is certain just what they were used for.
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Space Photos: The Most Amazing Images This Week! | Space
See the best photos on Space.com this week.
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Mathematicians Solve '42' Problem With Planetary Supercomputer
Mathematicians have finally figured out the three cubed numbers that add up to 42. This has settled a problem that has been pondered for 65 years: namely, can each of the natural numbers below 100 be expressed as the sum of three cubes?
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TESS Finds First Nearby Super-Earth (and it may be Habitable)
A trio of planets found in a nearby solar system offer one world that could have water, and maybe life!
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Einstein’s General Relativity passes the test at the centre of our Galaxy
Measurements of a star close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way confirms the predictions General Relativity
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Definition of Closed Timelike Curve
Definition of a closed timelike curve and how closed timelike curves can be used in relativity for the purposes of time travel.
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Introduction to Quantum Programming - Towards Data Science
In depth walkthrough of quantum programming for beginners, building up from the mathematical foundations of qubits to how to run on a real quantum computer.
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Tardigrades that crash-landed on the moon may still be alive, but they’re not having fun | Popular Science
The moon is a barren place, but every so often humanity sends it some visitors. Most recently, the dusty rock received a rather large delegation of Earth’s toughest living critters.
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Perseid meteor shower: The Perseids peak tonight
The peak of the best summertime meteor shower – the Perseids – will be coming to a sky near you tonight, weather permitting.
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Mathematician Solves Computer Science Conjecture in Two Pages | Quanta Magazine
The “sensitivity” conjecture stumped many top computer scientists, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet.
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Chris Kraft | NASA
Christopher C. "Chris" Kraft, Jr. (b. 1924) created the concept, and developed the organization, operational procedures, and culture of NASA's Mission Control, which was a critical element of the success of the nation's human spaceflight program
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Here's What Music Apollo 11 Astronauts Enjoyed for Their Walk on the Moon | Military.com
NASA began equipping astronauts with small Sony TC-50 cassette recorders on the Apollo 7 mission. They used them to play mixtapes.
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Breathtaking Simulation Recreates Neil Armstrong’s View of the Apollo 11 Landing
Choppy video taken by a camera next to Buzz Aldrin’s window is the only visual record we have of the first Moon landing. Using archival data and new high-res images, a team from NASA has recreated the Apollo 11 landing, showing Neil Armstrong’s perspe
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Scientists attempting to open portal to a parallel universe | The Independent
Could 2019 be the year humans open the first portal to a shadowy dimension which mirrors our own world? Scientists in Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee hope so, and have completed building equipment they are to test this summer which may
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Why plants don’t die from cancer
Humans and other mammals and birds would have been killed many times over by Chernobyl's radiation that plants in the most contaminated areas received. So why is plant life so resilient to radiation and nuclear disaster?
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Playing Pokémon Extensively In Childhood Actually Changes the Brain
By Emma Young. As well as being fascinating, the study has important practical implications.
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Navy Pilots Describe Encounters With UFOs | Daily Wire
When we think of unidentified flying objects (UFO), we tend to think of aliens, but we must remember that not all UFOs are extraterrestrial.
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Gorgeous Orion Nebula Glows in Stunning Red and Blue Light (Photo) | Space
Captured in the visible light spectrum, this deep-space image paints a sharp and colorful picture of the great Orion Nebula.
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If There Were a Time Warp, How Would Physicists Find It? | Space
How will physicists know if we're in a time warp?
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What a Year in Space Did to Scott Kelly
An unprecedented and illuminating study monitored identical twins, one in space and one on Earth.
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U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Elephant Walk
The “elephant walk” is a show of Air Force readiness to fight on short notice.
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First Moon Landing 1969 - YouTube
The video of the very first moon landing of the apollo 11 mission in 1969! Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon with his now legenday words "One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind."
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No, Quantum Tunneling Didn't Break The Speed Of Light; Nothing Does
If you don't look at the whole picture, it's all too easy to fool yourself.
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Infamous 'Jack the Ripper' serial killer might be identified through DNA, report says - ABC News
Five women were killed within months in 1888 by "Jack the Ripper."
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NASA studying 'untouched' moon rocks from '70s
NASA is taking a closer look at moon rock samples gathered through the Apollo program, launched nearly 50 years ago.
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Forgetting uses more brain power than remembering -- ScienceDaily
Choosing to forget something might take more mental effort than trying to remember it, researchers discovered through neuroimaging.
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There’s new evidence for what happened to people who survived Vesuvius
Archaeologist studied tomb inscriptions and matched names to historical records.
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Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment - BBC News
The abandoned Chernobyl exclusion zone could be about to change for the first time since the world's worst nuclear disaster.
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A Humpback Whale Was Just Found In The Middle Of The Amazon Rainforest And No One Knows How It Got There
The carcass of an 8-meter (26-foot) humpback whale was discovered last Friday in the mangrove forests of northern Brazil, according to a post by the Brazil
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NASA releases sharpest-ever images of distant Kuiper Belt object
NASA has released its highest resolution images of 2014 MU69, showing the strange Kuiper Belt object in exceptional detail.
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The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Breaks an AI Record
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are training Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer, to model climate change using machine learning techniques.
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WATCH: Trek's Replicator Nearing Reality
Star Trek’s replicator is this-close to becoming a reality. Right now, 3-D printers print objects layer by layer, a time-consuming process, particularly when larger objects are involved. Enter the scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, wh
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The north magnetic pole just changed. Here's what that means.
The foundation of many navigation systems, the World Magnetic Model finally got a much-needed update with the end of the U.S. government shutdown.
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Astronomers spot black hole spinning unbelievably fast as it swallows up a star – BGR
Black holes are some of the most interesting features of our universe, but they're also not very well understood. Studying distant black holes in any great detail is very difficult due to the fact that nothing, including light, can escape their grasp once
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Astronomers spot ‘Farout’, the most distant dwarf planet ever found in our solar system
It's at the edge of our solar system
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Watch the Air and Space Museum's Apollo 8 Anniversary Celebration Live
Astronaut James Lovell and others will speak
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NASA will live stream the landing of its OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe – BGR
The Mars InSight lander only just touched down on the Red Planet, but NASA is already gearing up for the landing of another incredibly interesting mission.
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NASA to Host Briefing on November Mars InSight Landing | NASA
NASA's upcoming landing of the first-ever mission to study the heart of Mars will be the topic of a media briefing at 1:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 31 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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The Universe Has A Speed Limit, And It Isn't The Speed Of Light
Nothing can go faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But particles in our Universe can't even go that fast.
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Voyager 2 probe may be on the edge of interstellar space
NASA's Voyager 2 probe may be close to joining its sibling and entering interstellar space. The vessel has been detecting a five percent increase in cosmic rays...
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Dwarf planet 'The Goblin' discovery redefining solar system | Science | The Guardian
Massively elongated orbit suggests object is influenced by theoretical giant Planet Nine in Oort Cloud region
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The ancient earthquake detector that puzzled modern historians
The earthquake detector that existed long before we knew what earthquakes really were.
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NASA's New Spacecraft Takes First Photo, Finds First Exoplanet
NASA's TESS spacecraft just took its first photo of the night sky, and researchers using that image have found a planet around another star.
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Meet The Four-Dimensional Numbers That Led to Modern Algebra
Strange, long-forgotten numbers called quaternions are undergoing a revival in computer graphics, math, and physics.
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Hubble captures mysterious nebula in gorgeous new image – BGR
You might think that with so many telescopes at its disposal NASA and the astronomy community at large would have plenty of time to gaze at whatever they want, but space is just so big that even some of the most interesting anomalies in the sky fall throu
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Send NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Support As It Battles Epic Dust Storm
While engineers continue to try to revive the Mars rover Opportunity, you can show your support by sending the rover a digital postcard.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station had to plug this hole with their thumb – BGR
Yesterday, Russian space organization Roscosmos and the European Space Agency broke the news that the International Space Station had sprung a leak. That's a pretty big deal for the astronauts who are riding what amounts to a floating science laboratory,
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Astronomers Make a Surprising Discovery from 12.5 Billion Years Ago
A team of astronomers has made a surprising discovery: 12.5 billion years ago, the most opaque place in the universe contained relatively little matter.
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Nasa probe will still be circling Sun at end of Solar System, say scientists
Nasa's new solar spacecraft is so indestructable that parts of it will be circling the Sun until the Solar System ends, eight billion years from now, scientists have said. The US space agency launches its Parker Solar Probe on Saturday, which will trave
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Today the Parker Solar Probe Is Named for Him. 60 Years Ago, No One Believed His Ideas About the Sun. - The New York Tim
Eugene N. Parker predicted the existence of solar wind in 1958. The NASA spacecraft, scheduled to launch on Saturday, is the first named for a living person.
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NASA wants you to build your own Mars rover - CNET
The Jet Propulsion Lab's DIY Curiosity rover costs billions less than the real thing.
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The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archeologists for Centuries | Mental Floss
Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.
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Blood moon: Photos of the lunar eclipse taken by astronaut in space - Business Insider
German astronaut Alexander Gerst, who lives aboard the International Space Station, used his camera to take stunning photos of the total lunar eclipse, or blood moon, from orbit on July 27, 2018.
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Milky Way's Black Hole Provides Long-Sought Test of Einstein's General Relativity - 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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Longest total lunar eclipse of 21st century coming Friday
The longest total lunar eclipse of the century is coming Friday, and it will transform the moon into a reddish orange color for more than 100 minutes, according to NASA. The eclipse won't be visible from North America, Noah Petro, a scientist for the NAS
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Saturn’s moon Titan looks absolutely incredible in new infrared images – BGR
NASA's Cassini orbiter is dead. It's been dead since late last year, having completed an extended mission and a series of daring dives through Saturn's iconic rings, and ultimately found itself slamming through the planet's thick atmosphere where it was e
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Here's what we know about Lockheed Martin's mysterious SR-72 - Business Insider
In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane.
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Astronomers captured the first image of a baby planet
Thanks to European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope, a group of astronomers have taken the first photograph of a planet being formed around a y...
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Evidence for a new fundamental of particle thrills and baffles physicists. - The Washington Post
Existence of a “sterile” neutrino could finally break the Standard Model of particle physics.
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NASA's Curiosity rover takes stunning selfie during massive dust storm on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover has taken an incredible selfie image during an unprecedented massive dust storm on Mars.
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How to stream NASA’s mysterious Mars announcement today – BGR
NASA regularly releases news, scientific papers, and new theories related to Mars, and typically it's with very little fanfare. Scientists have lots of hardware working around the clock to probe the Red Planet's mysteries, and not every minor detail is wo
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Researchers power tiny medical implant from over 100 feet away
Researchers at MIT are working on tiny implantable devices that can communicate and be powered wirelessly. In the future, they could be used to deliver drugs, t...
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Graphene 'stimulation' could selectively kill off cancer cells
A chance lab discovery is opening up the possibility for wide-scale improvements in drug screening, application of selective painkillers, and selectively nuking...
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Quantum drum can vibrate and stand still at the same time - UPI.com
Scientists have built a tiny quantum drum that both vibrates and remains still when struck by a drumstick made of light.
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NuScale's Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Passes Biggest Hurdle Yet
NuScale’s small modular nuclear reactor completed the Phase 1 review of their design certification application by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. That’s a huge deal because Phase 1 is the most intensive phase of the review, taking more hours and ef
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Aliens May Well Exist in a Parallel Universe, New Studies Find
Could alien life be hiding in the multiverse? Two new studies say, "sure!"
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Massive wave is largest ever recorded in southern hemisphere [Video]
New Zealand scientists claim a monster wave detected during a storm is the largest ever recorded in the southern hemisphere.
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Why Pluto is a planet and many moons are, too - The Washington Post
Two planetary scientists say Pluto, exoplanets and even many moons are planets, or “round objects in space that are smaller than stars."
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Dyson Spheres, The Ultimate Alien Megastructures, Are Missing From The Galaxy
Humanity has mapped the Milky Way better than ever with ESA's Gaia. But 1.7 billion stars later, there are still no Dyson spheres.
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NASA Captures Exploding Star
NASA scientists captured images of a supernova, or an exploding star, for the first time and we are totally transfixed by the video. While NASA has been able
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These 'Spooky' Entangled Atoms Just Brought Quantum Computing One Step Closer
Physicists have pushed quantum computing one step closer to becoming a reality.
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Experiment shows Einstein's quantum 'spooky action' approaches the human scale
We usually think of quantum entanglement in the realm of atomic systems, but now it's been scaled up to relatively massive objects. This opens the door to new kinds of technology.
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Japanese company builds working 'Transformers'-like robot that turns into a car | Fox News
A Japanese technology firm has built a robot that can transform into a car.
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Scientists release most detailed star chart of the Milky Way - ABC News
Get breaking national and world news, broadcast video coverage, and exclusive interviews. Find the top news online at ABC news.
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MIT researchers turn water into 'calm' computer interfaces
Our lives are busy and full of distractions. Modern computing. with its constant notifications and enticing red bubbles next to apps, seems designed to keep us...
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NASA Releases Astounding Video Of The Lagoon Nebula To Celebrate Hubble's Birthday | HuffPost
The nebula is a "raucous star nursery full of birth and destruction," NASA says.
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Advanced microscope shows cells at work in incredible 3D detail
For the first time, scientists have peered into living cells and created videos showing how they function with unprecedented 3D detail. Using a special microsco...
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The Most Important Equation In The Universe
Just one equation relates the expansion of space to all the matter and energy we have. If you know this, you can know the fate of the Universe.
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Scientists Accidentally Create Plastic-Digesting 'Mutant Enzyme' | Fortune
Researchers trying to understand an enzyme found in a Japanese recycling plant accidentally improved its plastic-degrading performance.
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NASA’s Juno snapped another photo of Jupiter that looks like a watercolor painting – BGR
Out of all the different pieces of NASA hardware floating around our Solar System, the Juno spacecraft probably has the best gig in terms of pure eye candy.
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Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space
The perfect circle surrounding a galaxy cluster in a new Hubble Space Telescope image is a visual indicator of the huge masses that are bending time and space in that region.
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Fermilab breakthrough: Scientists record unprecedented neutrino measurement - UPI.com
For the first time, scientists have precisely measured the interactions between neutrinos hitting the atomic nuclei in the Fermilab's particle detector.
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The Atomic-Bomb Core That Escaped World War II - The Atlantic
Before two deadly nuclear mishaps, scientists used to risk “tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon.” An Object Lesson.
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China's first space station burns up over the South Pacific
China's Tiangong-1 has met its fiery end. The out-of-control space station plummeted through the Earth's atmosphere at roughly 7:15pm ET on Sunday evening, as e...
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NASA Hubble telescope snaps Icarus, most distant star seen yet - CNET
The space telescope brings us a look at Icarus, the farthest star ever seen, thanks to an assist from a cosmic magnifying glass.
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Pilots report close encounters with UFO over Arizona: 'Something just passed over us'
Two pilots on different aircraft reported having close encounters with a mysterious object flying high above Arizona last month, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The sightings occurred within minutes of each other on the afternoon of Feb
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Here's How to See the Chinese Space Station's Final Orbits and Fiery Fall
China's first-ever space laboratory, Tiangong-1, will fall to Earth within the next week and, weather permitting, you may get an opportunity to see it in one of its final trips around our planet. The space lab launched on Sept. 29, 2011, from Jiuqua
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SpaceX rocket carved giant hole in the ionosphere
Rockets can leave a mark on the atmosphere well after they've left, and SpaceX may have learned that first-hand. Researchers have determined that a Falcon 9 lau...
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The Puzzle Of Quantum Reality
Despite the incredibly accurate predictions of quantum theory, there's a lot of disagreement over what it says about reality — or even whether it says anything at all about it, says guest Adam Becker.
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Black Hole Belches Bright Radio Flashes as It Devours Nearby Star
Black holes are voracious eaters, but they don't have the nicest table manners.
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Vanguard I has spent six decades in orbit, more than any other craft
As of this month, the US satellite Vanguard I has spent 60 years in orbit and it remains the oldest man-made object in space. Vanguard I was the fourth satellit...
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This 3-D-printed house costs $10,000 and can be built in 24 hours
One of the less obvious products being unveiled this week at SXSW is a small concrete house. On the outside, it doesn’t look like anything particularly...
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Newly-released DoD video purportedly shows Navy pilot's encounter with UFO
News, email and search are just the beginning. Discover more every day. Find your yodel.
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Researchers Discover Graphene Is a Superconductor
The discovery rekindles hope that scientists can make a room-temperature superconductor.
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Stunning NASA Juno Image Captures Sunrise and Sunset on Jupiter in One Shot
The image stitches together several photos to show off the details where night and day meet.
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Was Einstein Right? Single Star Will Let Astronomers Test Theory of Relativity
“We have been waiting 16 years for this.”
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Amateur Astronomer Wins 'Cosmic Lottery' with 1-in-10-Million Supernova Shot
An amateur astronomer testing out a new camera just happened to catch the first light emitted by a supernova — a dramatic event that professional astronomers had long wanted to see.
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The secret life of Higgs bosons | symmetry magazine
Are these mass-giving particles hanging out with dark matter?
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New dinosaurs are being discovered in record numbers, and it’s changing everything we thought we knew – BGR
Every kid grows up loving dinosaurs. As we grow older we listen to science teachers explain how dinosaurs lived and died, we watch documentaries about the age when reptiles ruled the land, and by the time we reach adulthood most of us like to think we hav
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Are Quark Stars Possible?
Scientists don't yet know if ultradense quark stars can exist out in the universe.
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Where is Starman? Track Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster's Current Location.
Current location of Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla Roadster and Starman launched by SpaceX on the Falcon Heavy maiden flight
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Physicists Created a New Form of Light
Researchers at MIT and Harvard made groups of three photons interact.
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Are We Closer to Finding a Fifth Dimension?
The discovery of gravitational waves toppled what we thought we knew about dimensions.
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Learning to speak quantum
Particle physicists are studying ways to harness the power of the quantum realm to further their research.
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SpaceX’s historic Falcon Heavy successfully launches | TechCrunch
SpaceX has had a very good first test of its Falcon Heavy rocket, the heavy-lift orbital vehicle that can carry twice the weight of its closest competition in..
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Particle Physics: What's an Odderon, and Did CERN Just Reveal it Exists?
“We’ve been looking for this since the 1970s."
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Check Out Elon Musk’s $500 ‘Boring Company’ flamethrower
And you thought Elon Musk was joking when he said he wanted to sell a Boring Company flamethrower. The fire-spitting device showed up on its website on Saturday and costs $500.
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MIT uses Lego to prototype low-cost micro pumps
Lego bricks (or, if you're not a pedant, Legos) are highly precise and highly consistent plastic objects. Anywhere you go in the world the Lego is the same...
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The Three Meanings Of E=mc^2, Einstein's Most Famous Equation
From matter, antimatter and energy to the fundamental truths about existence, Einstein's most famous equation is the link you can't forget.
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What Are The Most Amazing Possibilities Within The Theoretical Limits Of Physics?
Scientifically speaking, what are the most amazing possibilities within the theoretical limits of physics, even if we haven't yet developed the technology to achieve them yet? This question was originally answered on Quora by Jay Wacker.
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Scientific Theory And The Multiverse Madness
An increasing number of theoretical physicist think that our universe is only one among infinitely many — but this speculation is not based on sound logic, says guest commentator Sabine Hossenfelder.
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These high-speed ‘nano-cranes’ could form molecular assembly lines
Things aren't going well down at the ol' nano-factory. They're having trouble getting all those tiny workers to synchronize and move quickly together. But..
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft found a remarkable similarity between Earth and Saturn’s moon Titan – BGR
NASA's Cassini spacecraft went on a long and treacherous mission that ended last year in spectacular fashion. The large space explorer dove into Saturn's atmosphere, exploded into flames, and then disintegrated into nothing.
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NASA to Reveal Energy Breakthrough That Can Take Humans to Mars and Power a Home for 10 Years
The agency hasn't tried building a nuclear fission reactor for space since the 1960s.
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NASA captures rare image of a distant galaxy nearly as old as the Universe itself
When astronomers at NASA capture images of far-off galaxies, they typically appear only as tiny red dots. These distant celestial bodies are so far away that even the strongest telescopes are usually incapable of distinguishing between the many stars cont
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This inexpensive battery could revolutionize the clean energy industry
In theory, the battery shouldn't work at all. But it does.
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Solar Systems Are Like Peas in a Pod—But Ours Is Wildly Disordered
Other systems are orderly and neat.
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New Dark Matter Physics Could Solve The Expanding Universe Controversy
Multiple teams of scientists can't agree on how fast the Universe expands. Dark matter may unlock why.
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Why Drinking Straws Don't Work In Space
Why would it be impossible to suck a liquid into your mouth using a straw on the moon? This question was originally answered on Quora by C Stuart Hardwick.
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Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes actually capture.
Soon, we may get to see one up close for the first time.
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NASA rover spots strange 'stick-like figures' on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover is eyeing a group of angular formations on Mars that stand out from the usual rocks.
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Incredible NASA image of the Earth and the moon shows how small we really are
It took the picture on its way to a rendezvous with a mysterious asteroid
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SpaceX shows off its Falcon Heavy rocket vertical on the launchpad
SpaceX is getting ready for its first ever test flight of the Falcon Heavy, its heavy-duty rocket aimed at propelling large cargo loads into low Earth orbit...
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A rare Blue Moon lunar eclipse will happen this month
One of the more exciting events of 2017 was the total solar eclipse that was viewable across the US. And if you enjoyed it as much as I did, I have some good ne...
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Scientists Are Designing Artisanal Proteins for Your Body
The human body makes tens of thousands of cellular proteins, each for a particular task. Now researchers have learned to create custom versions not found in nature.
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NASA astronaut, 1st to fly untethered in space, dies at 80
HOUSTON (AP) — NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, has died. He was 80.
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SpaceX launches a reused Dragon atop a reused Falcon 9 for the first time
SpaceX has moved one step closer to its dream of affordable, efficient reusable space flight: Today for its CRS-13 resupply mission for the International..
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Supermassive Black Holes Spotted in Photo of Andromeda Are About to Collide in Megamerger
The black holes were the closest orbiting pair ever discovered.
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Nuke blasts reveal true size of neutron stars
Thermonuclear blasts on a neutron star give away its size and mass.
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40 years ago, NASA sent a message to aliens — here's what it says
In September 1977, NASA launched Voyager I from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Free-fall experiment could test if gravity is a quantum force
The effort to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics always hits one snag: gravity. An experiment could finally tell us if it is a quantum force
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Scientists found a new Earth-sized planet nearby… and it might be habitable
Forget Mars, scientists have discovered a new Earth-sized, possibly habitable, planet just 11 light years away. Known as Ross 128b, the newly discovered..
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Giant Space Explosion That's Never Been Witnessed Before Challenges What We Know About Stars and Black Holes
Astronomers are still figuring out what the heck happened during an explosion first spotted in 2010.
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Physics Breakthrough in 50-Year Search for 'Holy Grail' Particle Tetraquark
A combination of three quarks creates a hadron, which, when stable, we know as a proton or neutron. Now, researchers are about to publish what they say is proof that the tetraquark exists, that it’s stable, and that they can generate it in the Large Ha
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Something scorching hot is melting Antarctica from below, and NASA thinks they know what it is – BGR
Antarctica is a weird place. Scientists have long studied the behavior of its massive ice sheets and the land underneath them in the hopes of understanding the unique geological quirks of the continent, but are frequently puzzled by new discoveries.
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Even more evidence points to alien life on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus
Scientists have discovered that a subsurface ocean on Enceladus could have existed for billions of years, providing plenty of time for microbial alien life to emerge and evolve. One of Saturn’s icy moons, Enceladus is considered one of the best bets f
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Proxima Centauri: Our Closest Cosmic Neighbour May Have an Entire Solar System We Never Knew About
Just last year, scientists announced they had spotted a planet orbiting the star nearest our sun, Proxima Centauri. The discovery is described in a new paper accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. "It’s the first indication o
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Mysterious void in Great Pyramid of Giza could finally reveal how pyramids were built
A mysterious void has been discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza and Egyptologists believe it could finally shed light on how the ancient tombs were constructed. The enigmatic gap, which is around 100ft long is situated directly above the Grand Gallery,
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10 Spacetime Mysteries That Quantum Gravity Could Solve
We travel through spacetime every day, but still don't really know how it works.
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New Wormhole Could Resolve the Black Hole Information Paradox
A new theory is percolating among physicists that presupposes the existence of a traversable wormhole.
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“Self-regulating” nanoparticles can burn cancer without harming healthy cells | TechCrunch
Researchers at the University of Surrey and Dalian University of Technology in China have created a form of nanoparticle that can heat up and kill cancerous..
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NASA Twin Study: Year in Space Changed Scott Kelly All the Way to His DNA
In the space agency’s Twins Study—which investigates the effects of space travel on human health—researchers found that being in space encourages methylation, which is the biological process of switching genes on and off. “Some of the most exciti
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How the Soviet Concorde crashed and burned
With just 55 completed flights and two fatal crashes, the Concorde's Soviet rival, Tupolev Tu-144, was one of civil aviation's biggest failures.
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In A First, Scientists Spot Light Amid Gravitational Waves Emitted By Colliding Stars
Scientists for the first time have detected both gravitational waves and light from the collision of two dead, incredibly dense neutron stars.
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Experiment Confirms a Crucial Property of Electrons, Unfortunately
When it comes to physics, fewer things are more exciting than proving something wrong. Proving theories wrong has led to entirely new fields of study. The fruits that come from wrongness can be so rewarding that scientists devote a considerable amount of time to probing well-known theories, hoping to find a crack.
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Intel moves towards production quantum computing with new 17-qubit chip
Intel's quantum computing efforts have yielded a new 17-qubit chip, which the company has just delivered to its partner in that field, QuTech in the Netherlands. 17 isn't some magic number in the quantum world, nor does this chip do any special tricks ot
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Mystery of the Universe’s Missing Matter Finally Solved by Scientists
The universe is missing half its matter. Scientists believe most of the universe—about 70 percent—is made up of dark energy, the mystery force thought to be driving its expansion. About a quarter is dark matter, and the remaining five percent is norma
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Scientists made the first 'unhackable' quantum video call
Following extensive testing earlier this year, China has now deployed its quantum communications work in the form of the first ever quantum-safe video call.
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A fourth gravitational wave has been detected
And we've pinpointed its location better than ever before.
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Gravity Could Be the Result of Random Quantum Fluctuations
A new theory takes a feature of a quantum mechanical model and shows how it can generate gravity.
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Juno Jupiter Images: NASA Captures Gas Giant in Incredible Detail During Close Approach
Each flyby, a community of Jupiter fans that spans the globe chooses what features JunoCam should focus its lens on. Occasionally more of the frame is black than Jupiter. Here, the image processor was particularly intrigued by the dark ring visible just
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Betelgeuse: The impending Supernova you need to know about
Check out this incredible video of the Betelgeuse 'killer' star - 1,400 times larger than our Sun that would swallow up Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and even Jupiter. The Betelgeuse star is a famous one among amateur astronomers not only for its size and b
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Hubble Telescope Views Blistering Pitch-Black Planet WASP-12b
Twice the size of any planet in our solar system, WASP-12b has the capability to trap at least 94% of the visible starlight falling into its atmosphere.
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Follow Cassini’s final moments before it plunges into Saturn
For the last thirteen years, Cassini has been orbiting Saturn, sending back extraordinary images and data from the ringed planet and its moons.
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The Air Force's 'rods from god' could hit with the force a nuclear weapon — but with no fallout
A bundle of telephone-pole sized tungsten rods, dropped from orbit, reaching up to 10 times the speed of sound.
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Magic Leap is experimenting with light-bending nanomaterials
Mixed reality company Magic Leap is cagey with its tech, to say the least.
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America's longest-orbiting female astronaut has safely returned home
After spending 665 days whizzing 254 miles above the surface of Earth aboard the International Space Station, Astronaut Peggy Whitson has successfully reentered the atmosphere and set down safely in Kazakhstan.
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SpaceX finishes testing Falcon Heavy's first stage cores
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket has been in the works for so long that it almost feels like the stuff of legend at this point (Elon Musk first unveiled it in 2011), but there are signs that it might make that promised November launch.
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NASA’s Hubble Detects Signs of Water on Potentially Habitable TRAPPIST-1 Planets
Several of the planets orbiting a nearby star may harbor “substantial amounts” of water, astronomers say, including three planets situated in a habitable part of the star’s solar system. The star—called TRAPPIST-1—is an ultracool dwarf star 40 l
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Does The Universe Have Physical Boundaries?
Does the universe have physical boundaries? This question was originally answered on Quora by Viktor T. Toth.
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‘Nano-hashtags’ could provide definite proof of Majorana particles
Will the quantum chip that is presented today in Nature by researchers from TU/e among others be able to provide definitive proof of the mysterious Majorana particles?
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Exclusive: We may have detected a new kind of gravitational wave
Rumours are swirling of a new kind of gravitational wave, created by colliding neutrons stars, rather than black holes. Now Hubble has joined the hunt
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Eclipse 2017: A Unique Chance for Science
On Aug. 21, the Moon will cast its shadow down on Earth, giving all of North America the chance to see a solar eclipse. Within the narrow, 60- to 70-mile-wide band stretching from Oregon to South...
