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Scientists Create A New Type Of 'Lightsaber' Matter
Normally light doesn't interact with other light - when two lasers collide, nothing happens. By coo…
Jennifer Welsh
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99.9999999% of your body is empty space
Energy! At a pretty basic level, we're all made of atoms, which are made of electrons, protons, and…
Ali Sundermier
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See The World's First Images Of Actual Hydrogen Bonds
When a tiny hydrogen atom is in a molecule with a much bigger atom, like nitrogen or oxygen (for ex…
Kelly Dickerson,Jennifer Welsh
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A remarkable picture of a single glowing atom just won a photography prize - here are the most eye-catching images from the competition
The photo, taken by David Nadlinger from the University of Oxford, actually shows the light particl…
Kevin Loria
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Scientists have detected oxygen on Mars - and it could reveal something fascinating about the planet's past
SOFIA, which flies between 37,000 and 45,000 feet above sea level, actually measured about half the…
Ali Sundermier
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How this letter from a genius pacifist inspired the US to build the most powerful weapon known to man
Einstein, a pacifist who fled Nazi Germany, learned that three chemists in Berlin were on the brink…
Amanda Macias
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Lockheed Martin Says This Desalination Technology Is An Industry Game-Changer
"Graphene is pure carbon that is made in a hot oven on top of a copper sheet in a vacuum," John S…
Dina Spector
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Physicists Finally Made The One-Poled Magnet They've Been Missing For 80 Years
Being able to generate a monopole like this in a lab has some serious implications for physics. Whe…
Andy Kiersz
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SpaceX is about to launch a remarkable atomic clock for NASA that may change how we explore space
The atoms are ionized to strip away one or more outer electrons, which enables them to be trapped a…
Dave Mosher
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The remarkable story of the world's first atomic bomb
Designed and launched under Oppenheimer's chosen codename "Trinity" - inspired by a poem by John Do…
Amanda Macias
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An American physicist stands next to the world's first atomic bomb
Designed and launched under Oppenheimer's chosen codename "Trinity" - inspired by a poem by John Do…
Amanda Macias
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Inside America's most toxic nuclear waste dump, where 56 million gallons of buried radioactive sludge are leaking into the earth
In 1989, after years of dismissing concerns about contamination, the reservation's management final…
James Pasley,James Pasley
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Hyperion just revealed the hydrogen-powered, all-electric XP-1, a hypercar with 'atomic bomb levels of energy'
Brand-new hypercars are having a moment. Hot on the heels of McLaren F1 designer Gordon Murray pull…
Matthew DeBord
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Astronauts on the International Space Station are helping to forge a bizarre form of matter that does not exist in nature
Atoms chilled to supercool temperatures form a fifth state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condens…
Aylin Woodward
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On the anniversary eve of the drone strike ordered by Trump that killed its top general, Iran reveals its plan to expand its nuclear program
"We are like soldiers and our fingers are on the triggers," the head of Iran's civilian atomic ener…
Theron Mohamed
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The remarkable story of the world's first atomic bomb and how Oppenheimer reacted to the historic moment
J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the men who oversaw the detonation of the world's first atomic bom…
Amanda Macias,Joshua Zitser
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A researcher claims 2 banks apps can be hacked using iPhone's 'Live Photos'
Atom admitted to BI that breaking into the app using a live photo would be possible but emphasised …
Oscar Williams-Grut
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Krypton-Dating Breakthrough Can Unlock Secrets Of Ancient Earth
In 2011, researchers were able to use the Trap to date 120,000-year-old Antarctic krypton. To get i…
Leslie Baehr
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Russia denies being behind a mysterious radiation leak making its way across Scandinavia
Finland, Sweden, and Norway reported increased levels of three radioactive isotropes in June. Russi…