On October 5, operators of Japan’s derelict Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant resumed pumping out wastewater…
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A new satellite’s ‘plasma brake’ uses Earth’s atmosphere to avoid becoming space junk
It took eight years and the collaborative efforts of over 600 interdisciplinary undergraduate students, but Estonia’s…
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JWST takes a jab at the mystery of the universe’s expansion rate
The universe is expanding—but astronomers can’t agree how fast. And NASA’s superstar observatory, the James Webb…
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Winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics measured electrons by the attosecond
The 2023 Nobel prize in physics was just awarded to three physicists for their work probing…
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How the Tonga eruption rang Earth ‘like a bell’
When the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano in Tonga exploded on January 15, 2022—setting off a sonic…
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You saw the first image of a black hole. Now see it better with AI.
Astronomy sheds light on the far-off, intangible phenomena that shape our universe and everything outside it.…
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Two fault lines near Seattle could rupture in one giant earthquake
Earthquakes occur along fractures, or faults, in the earth’s crust. When one of these cracks in…
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Does antimatter fall down or up? We now have a definitive answer.
Albert Einstein didn’t know about the existence of antimatter when he came up with the theory…
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The mathematical theory that connects swimming sperm, zebra stripes, and sunflower seeds
In nature, patterns of chemical interactions between two different substances are believed to govern the designs…
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A massive detector in China will try to find a supernova before it happens
Trillions of particles from distant stars and galaxies are streaming through your body every second—you just…
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Nature generates more data than the internet … for now
Is Earth primarily a planet of life, a world stewarded by the animals, plants, bacteria, and…
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This record-breaking X-ray laser is ready to unlock quantum secrets
One of the world’s most powerful lasers can soon begin peering deeper into the atomic world…
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