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Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma—the first matter ever to be...
Almost 60 years after British nuclear tests ended, radioactive particles containing plutonium and uranium still contaminate the landscape around Maralinga...
A research team has found that a method commonly used to skirt one of metal 3D printing’s biggest problems may...
A letter written by Albert Einstein in which he writes out his famous E = mc2 equation has sold at...
Discovering the Higgs boson in 2012 was only the start. Physicists immediately began measuring its properties, an investigation that is...
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It’s always good when your hard work reflects well on you. With the discovery of the giant polarization rotation of...
Advanced materials with more novel properties are almost always developed by adding more elements to the list of ingredients. But...
