The stars, planets, and many moons are extremely round. Why don’t they take other shapes?
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Without Benjamin List and David MacMillan, chemists would still be using metals and enzymes to catalyze chemical reactions.
When stars form, they emit energetic radiation that boils gas away. But it can’t stop gravitational collapse from making even newer stars.
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With its very first deep-field view of the Universe now released, the James Webb Space Telescope has shown us our cosmos as never before.
A new theory suggests that dreams’ illogical logic has an important purpose.
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From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton’s second law.
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Sometimes, new combinations of preexisting things revolutionize life.
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There’s still hope for implicit bias training, research shows.
The changes in brain structure aren’t the only bodily changes caused by zero gravity.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
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Everything is made of matter, not antimatter, including black holes. If antimatter black holes existed, what would they do?
Quantum physics isn’t quite magic, but it requires an entirely novel set of rules to make sense of the quantum universe.
The answer seems to be a series of evolutionary trade-offs that help protect organs in women, according to a recent study.
Controversial physics theory says reality around us behaves like a computer neural network.
New experiments find weird quantum activity in supercold gas.
A new study from Iceland confirms that a shorter workweek improves productivity.
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