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In certain quantum systems, paraparticles can appear as vibrations Giro Science/Science Photo Library A group of fundamental particles long theorized but thought to be physically impossible…
Arctic: The area within the Arctic Circle, characterized by extreme cold temperatures and snow cover for most of the year. The Arctic Highlands make up the…
Sundog (noun, soon derg) Sundogs are bright flares of light that appear on either side of the sun in the sky. They form when incoming sunlight…
The dark region in the upper right corner of this Mars image, the Acidaria Planum, may contain bacteria deep within its rocky surface. NASA/JPL/USGS Certain regions…
the universe is full of matterMohd. Afza/Shutterstock The following is an excerpt from the Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Every month, we hand over the keyboard to…
Pop culture has been warning us about robots for years. Isn’t that interesting? iRobot or terminator, you probably have nightmares about rogue machines taking over the…
IPerhaps just a coincidence of scheduling, this influential documentary is being released just as a heated debate is brewing at school gates about children’s use of…
Neuroscience seems like an unlikely place to find fundamental truths that might apply to everything in the universe. The brain is a special object that does…
Most physicists operate on the assumption that there is a world completely independent of us, an objective reality in which more or less well-defined things behave…
Chemists at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research have discovered that sulfurous acid (H2So3), once formed in the gas phase, is kinetically stable enough to allow…
composite: (often used as a synonym for chemistry) A compound is a substance formed by combining two or more chemical elements in certain proportions. For example,…
Shutterstock/Dr. Norbert Lange We think of this universe as containing everything that exists, has existed in the past, and will exist in the future, but that…
Calcium: Chemical element and alkali metal common in Earth’s crustal minerals and sea salts. It is also found in bone minerals and teeth, and plays a…
According to a recent Pentagon report, there is no reliable evidence to support the belief that U.S. authorities have hidden extraterrestrial life in the form of…
AC magnetism works differently than standard magnetism Libor Chemeikal and Anna Birk Hellenes A new type of magnetism has been measured for the first time. Alternative…
After years of extremely precise experiments, a group of researchers at CERN finally succeeded in creating and carefully capturing a sample of antihydrogen (the antimatter version…
