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About Tesla: Tesla Model 3 for 35K, firmware update, Autopilot’s new features and price cuts, Model S and X price cuts, customers are angry, closing stores, cutting bonuses for retail staff, service centers, Model Y presentation, Supercharger…

For the very first time, NASA has captured the shockwaves of two supersonic jets interacting in mid-flight, and the result is so brilliant, even the researchers are amazed.

In recent years scientists have started exploring the concept of anti-lasers - devices that can perfectly absorb a particular wavelength of light, as opposed to emitting it the way a laser does.

The Universe is a wondrous place, full of vast numbers of planets to explore, unsolved mysteries, and even 'superbubbles' blown by black holes.

David Kaplan explains how the law of increasing entropy could drive random bits of matter into the stable, orderly structures of life.


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Nearly 12,600 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene era, a group of humans hunted and killed a giant ground sloth in Argentina, then left the animal's bones behind, along with their butchering knife.

Black holes might easily be the most compelling mysteries in the Universe. Thought to be the collapsed cores of dead stars, these strange objects are well known for one particular property - matter goes in; nothing comes out.

A team of scientists working with electrical currents and silicate glass have been left gobsmacked after the glass appeared to defy a basic physical law.

For something that's supposed to help save the planet, solar geoengineering sure has a lot of enemies.

It's been a year since the renowned and profoundly influential physicist Stephen Hawking passed away, and the Royal Mint has honoured his legacy in the form of a new commemorative 50 pence coin.

Within the constellation of Hercules, 230 million light years away, a fierce and drawn-out battle is finally coming to an end. A pair of colliding galaxies, pulled together by gravity, are at last laying down their arms and joining forces.

Waterfalls are one of the most majestic things on the planet: a beautiful, thunderous display of water and physics. But where do these cascading creations come from?

The human capacity for language divides our species from the rest of the animal kingdom. Language has not only allowed us to conquer all corners of the globe, but to devise writing, mathematics and all things thereafter.

The last three ice ages might have been triggered by tectonic collisions between Earth's continents, according to new research, and it could give us clues as to how the planet's climate might suddenly shift again in the future.

Jupiter: a massive, lifeless gas giant out there on the other side of the asteroid belt. It's a behemoth, containing 2.5 times as much mass as all the other planets combined. To top it off, it's named after the Roman king of gods.

A sunken ship found in the Nile river may have lain undisturbed for over 2,500 years, but now it is finally ponying up its secrets. Scientists think that this ship has revealed a structure whose existence has been debated for centuries.

Do human beings have a magnetic sense? Biologists know other animals do. They think it helps creatures including bees, turtles and birds navigate through the world.