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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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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.
Science & Technology | Science
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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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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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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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.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
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
Science & Technology | Physics & Cosmology
Bringing balance to the universe: New theory could explain missing 95 percent of the cosmos
Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass." If you were to push a nega
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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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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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A whale of a tale | symmetry magazine
Scientists looking for tiny particles off the coast of Italy stumble upon a much bigger research subject.
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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.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
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.
Science & Technology | Physics & Cosmology
The Big Bang Wasn’t The Beginning, After All – Starts With A Bang! – Medium
The Universe began not with a whimper, but with a bang! At least, that’s what you’re commonly told: the Universe and everything in it came into existence at the moment of the Big Bang. Space, time…
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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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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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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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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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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...
Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation
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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Did Han Solo Use A Trick Of Einstein's Relativity To Make The Kessel Run?
As the new Star Wars movie, Solo, premieres, let's look at the physics of how his most famous achievement might actually be possible.
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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!"
Science & Technology | Physics & Cosmology
Taming the multiverse: Stephen Hawking’s final theory about the big bang | University of Cambridge
The theory, which was submitted for publication before Hawking’s death earlier this year, is based on string theory and predicts the universe is finite and far simpler than many current theories about the big bang say. Professor Hertog, whose work has b
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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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Black Hole Echoes Would Reveal Break With Einstein’s Theory | Quanta Magazine
Gravitational waves have opened up new ways to test the properties of black holes — and Einstein’s theory of gravity along with them.
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Scientists release most detailed star chart of the Milky Way - 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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Meet the quantum blockchain that works like a time machine | TechCrunch
A new — and theoretical — system for blockchain-based data storage could ensure that hackers will not be able to crack cryptocurrencies once the quantum era starts. The idea, proposed by researchers at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zeal
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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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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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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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Iconic Physicist Stephen Hawking Dies At 76 | HuffPost
"We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe," Hawking once remarked, "and for that, I am extremely grateful."
Science & Technology | Physics & Cosmology
Recoil detectives: searching for black hole kicks using gravitational waves | astrobites
Gravitational waves are believed to be able to “kick” black hole merger remnants out of their host galaxy. We can search for signatures of that kick directly in gravitational wave signa…
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Researchers Discover Graphene Is a Superconductor
The discovery rekindles hope that scientists can make a room-temperature superconductor.
Science & Technology | Technology
Google’s new Bristlecone processor brings it one step closer to quantum supremacy | TechCrunch
Every major tech company is looking at quantum computers as the next big breakthrough in computing. Teams at Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM and various..
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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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Not even IBM is sure where its quantum computer experiments will lead
Despite the hype and hoopla surrounding the burgeoning field of quantum computing, the technology is still in its infancy. Just a few years ago, researchers wer...
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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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Are Quark Stars Possible?
Scientists don't yet know if ultradense quark stars can exist out in the universe.
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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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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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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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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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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.
Science & Technology | Physics & Cosmology
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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Researchers revolutionise pipeline design, eliminating | Cosmos
Simple tweaks could reduce pump-energy inputs by 95%. Andrew Masterson reports.
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Parallel Universes: Theories & Evidence
There actually is quite a bit of evidence out there for a multiverse — an infinite number of other universes besides our own.
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Magnets with a single pole are still giving physicists the slip | Science News
Using data from particle accelerators and dead stars, scientists eliminate some possible masses for magnetic monopoles.
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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.
Health & Fitness | Health News
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.
Science & Technology | Cosmic Research
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.
Science & Technology | Cosmic Research
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
History | History
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.
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous
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!
