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Willbone Farm, Virginia James Dinneen Kade Wilbourne pulls the lever and several tons of volcanic rock are shot into the field behind us with a fan…
When particles act like waves, they form a circular diffraction pattern after passing through a small aperture.Elle Degginger/Science Photo Library A classic quantum experiment showing how…
CMS Collaboration physicists used data from high-energy proton-proton collisions from Experiment 2 at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to released The latest research into the production…
The shadow of the laser beam appears as a horizontal line against a blue background.Abrahao et al. (2024) Usually light casts shadows on other objects, but…
objective: Investigate the relationship between the size of a meteorite and the size of the crater formed upon impact. scientific field: Astronomy difficulty: For beginners Time…
On Monday, a spacecraft was launched to investigate. Space collision site. The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft was rocket-launched on a two-year journey to the small,…
Atmospheric pressure: The force exerted by the weight of air molecules. average: (scientific term) A term for the arithmetic mean, which is the sum of a…
Atom: The basic unit of a chemical element. An atom consists of a dense nucleus containing positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons. A cloud of negatively…
Tokamak’s 30-metre deep assembly pit ©Enrico Sacchetti Huge in scale and ambition, ITER is a €20 billion energy project being built in the south of France…
On a light rainy day last year, two researchers attempted the Wall of Death for the first time. This amusement park attraction near Parma, Italy, looks…
Aerial image of ITERITER Organization/EJF Riche ITER, the world’s largest nuclear fusion power project, has suffered a decade of delays, pushing its planned start of operation…
Cashew nut shells contain acids that can be used for biofuelJanet Houghton/Alamy Stock Photos As the shipping industry seeks ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, companies…
Ryan Wills/istock/Amthitas When Seth Lloyd first pitched his idea for a quantum time loop, he didn’t consider all of the consequences. For one, he didn’t expect…
A safety assessment released Thursday did not identify any potential harm from the work. “We do not believe this work will have an adverse effect on…
For Alan Barr, it started during the COVID-19 lockdown. “I had a little more time. I could sit and think,” he says. He was delighted to be part of the success of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, the particle collider that discovered the Higgs boson. But now he wondered, had they missed
In April, a total solar eclipse is expected to occur, promising great scientific success thanks to new spacecraft, telescopes, and cosmic coincidences.The upcoming eclipse will feature…
Electron micrograph of HIV, which currently requires lifelong medicationScott Kamazin/Alamy Stock Photo A new way to eradicate HIV from the body could one day become a…
The final update on Rick’s journey to overcome cell phone addiction allows him to make a breakthrough. And a big one. “Do you want to be…
Two weeks before the pandemic lockdown in March 2020, I flew to Tucson, Arizona, and knocked on the door of a suburban ranch-style home. I was…
The X-ray beam from Europe’s XFEL, the world’s largest X-ray laser, can only be seen with photographic clarity in complete darkness and with an exposure time…
Double slit experiment shows how light acts as waves Tim Weitkamp/Wikimedia, CC by 3.0 The classic double-slit experiment in quantum physics shines light through two narrow…
NASA’s Starling mission will test new technologies for autonomous swarm navigation on four CubeSats in low Earth orbit.Credit: NASA Ames Research Center NASAThe four Starling spacecraft,…
Scientists from multiple universities are collaborating on a project to experiment if gravity has quantum properties. The experiment, MAST-QG, involves suspending microdiamonds in quantum superposition and…