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Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei peered through his newly improved 20-power homemade telescope at the planet Jupiter. He ...

Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they’ll still need to overcome ...

Using 1/10th scale 3D-printed hula hooping robots and a lot of math, researchers have determined the ideal body shape for ...

It's the late 1990s. Lloyd Hackel and Brent Dane are researchers in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) laser ...

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Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour ‘kiss-and-capture’ encounter after a grazing ...

Scientists at Brown University have discovered a new class of quantum particles known as fractional excitons, which exhibit ...

Amid the many mysteries of quantum physics, subatomic particles don't always follow the rules of the physical world. They can ...

Theoretical study predicts the existence of particles that are neither bosons nor fermions — and hints at potential ...