study of matter and its motion, along with related concepts such as energy and force
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Burst of gamma rays from 10 billion light years away offers glimpse into the early universe
A short gamma ray burst known to astronomers as SGRB181123B is the second most-distant well-established SGRB ever seen, ...
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This robotic basketball hoop makes any klutz shoot like Michael Jordan
Engineer Shane Wighton built a robotic basketball hoop that follows the ball with computer vision and tilts its backboard ...
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The silliest string-theory alternative yet draws inspiration from video games
Noted physicist, computer scientist, and mathematician Stephen Wolfram recently stunned the science community at-large after ...
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Why these Quasar jets appear to travel faster than light
Quasar jets imaged by the Earth Horizon Telescope (EHT) show galactic movements in unprecedented detail. Movements of vast ...
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New math theory suggests time travel is impossible
A physicist named Nicolas Gisin from the University of Geneva recently published a series of papers that could change our ...
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Supermassive black holes: How did they grow so fast?
Whilst astronomers are fairly certain that supermassive black holes, billions of times more massive than our Sun, dwell ...
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Astronomers discover ultramassive white dwarf that could teach us how stars evolve
A team of astronomers from the University of Warwick led by Mark Hollands, have discovered an ultramassive white dwarf with ...
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How the tiniest particles in the cosmos saved us all from annihilation
Ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves could reveal the answer to one of the greatest questions in the study of ...
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These four graphs prove we can’t blame climate change on ‘solar activity’
The past decade (2010-2019) was the hottest on record and five of the top 10 warmest single years have all occurred since ...
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Scientists built an AI to figure out what the universe is made of
A multi-university team of researchers from Japan recently used the world's fastest astrophysics-simulation supercomputers ...
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Remembering Stephen Hawking on his 78th birthday: A legacy of humanity
Stephen Hawking passed away on 14 March 2018. His work changed literally everything we know about the cosmos and our place ...
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Cosmology in crisis as evidence suggests our universe isn't flat, it's actually curved
No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word. Observations of the retrograde motion of ...
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[Best of 2019] This quantum physics breakthrough could be the origin story for time travel
An international team of researchers recently placed an entire molecule into a state of quantum superposition. This huge ...
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These new technologies will soon answer our biggest questions about the universe
In 1900, so the story goes, prominent physicist Lord Kelvin addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science ...
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How babies can teach AI to understand classical and quantum physics
A team of researchers from MIT recently tapped the amazing potential of the human brain to develop an AI model that understands ...
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Scientists were wrong, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is not dying
In the last 10 years, but in the last five months in particular, the press has reported dire warnings that the Great Red ...
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A new experiment may help us figure out what 'dark energy' actually is
As an astronomer, there is no better feeling than achieving “first light” with a new instrument or telescope. It is the ...
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Physicist claims men are inherently better suited for a career in physics than women in published paper
The 'Quantitative Science Studies’ journal controversially published a paper that claims men are better suited for a career ...
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New physics research boldly indicates 'warp drives' may be possible
Humans are within years of sending the first crewed mission to Mars. And then what? Maybe another 100 years from now we'll ...
