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China Just Switched on Its 'Artificial Sun' Nuclear Fusion Reactor
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China Just Switched on Its 'Artificial Sun' Nuclear Fusion Reactor
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China Just Switched on Its 'Artificial Sun' Nuclear Fusion Reactor
China successfully powered up its "artificial Sun" nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, state media reported Friday, marking a great advance in the country's nuclear power research capabilities.
We have so much news from China for last several month, and that is why this research is very interesting for all who wants to know China's Propensity for Innovation in the 21st Century and to Identify Indicators of Future Outcomes.
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A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics
The result highlights a fundamental tension: Either the rules of quantum mechanics don’t always apply, or at least one basic assumption about reality must be wrong.
What counts as an observer in quantum mechanics? Can an atom be an observer? A virus? Artificial intelligence?
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The result highlights a fundamental tension: Either the rules of quantum mechanics don’t always apply, or at least one basic assumption about reality must be wrong.
What counts as an observer in quantum mechanics? Can an atom be an observer? A virus? Artificial intelligence?
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This Teen's Brilliantly Simple Explainer on Quantum Mechanics Just Won a Global Prize
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This Teen's Brilliantly Simple Explainer on Quantum Mechanics Just Won a Global Prize
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This Teen's Brilliantly Simple Explainer on Quantum Mechanics Just Won a Global Prize
A Canadian teenager from Fort McMurray, Alberta has won a major scientific competition for an electrifying YouTube video in which she brilliantly simplifies the complicated concept of quantum tunnelling.
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Euro-Russian Mars rover mission takes shape
Another key milestone is reached in the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission to the Red Planet.
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Spiders in Space Reveal The Weird Things That Happen to Webs in Microgravity
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Spiders in Space Reveal The Weird Things That Happen to Webs in Microgravity
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Spiders in Space Reveal The Weird Things That Happen to Webs in Microgravity
With impressively large webs and stunning colours on female spiders, golden silk orb-weavers aren't just cool - they've also been an incredible help to science, with their silk even being investigated as a biomaterial to reconstruct nerves.
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Amazing Photo of Endless Sunsets Is Believed to Be The Longest Exposure in Existence
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Amazing Photo of Endless Sunsets Is Believed to Be The Longest Exposure in Existence
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Amazing Photo of Endless Sunsets Is Believed to Be The Longest Exposure in Existence
Eight years and one month ago, a Master of Fine Art student at the University of Hertfordshire fitted a beer can with photographic paper and created a low-tech pinhole camera. She then placed the can on a telescope at the university's Bayfordbury
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A Newly Discovered Illusion Could Help Explain Our Visual Consciousness
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A Newly Discovered Illusion Could Help Explain Our Visual Consciousness
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A Newly Discovered Illusion Could Help Explain Our Visual Consciousness
How much are you conscious of right now? Are you conscious of just the words in the centre of your visual field or all the words surrounding it?
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Meet The 'King' of a Toxic Underground Ecosystem Unlike Anywhere Else on Earth
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Meet The 'King' of a Toxic Underground Ecosystem Unlike Anywhere Else on Earth
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Meet The 'King' of a Toxic Underground Ecosystem Unlike Anywhere Else on Earth
The Movile cave in southeast Romania wouldn't be top of your holiday destination list: no light gets down to it, the air is thick with poisonous gases, and it was cut off from the outside world for around 5.5 million years before its accidental dis
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Will The New Coronavirus Mutation Affect The Vaccine? Here's What You Need to Know
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Will The New Coronavirus Mutation Affect The Vaccine? Here's What You Need to Know
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Will The New Coronavirus Mutation Affect The Vaccine? Here's What You Need to Know
The emergence of a new variant of coronavirus has sparked renewed interest in the part of the virus known as the spike protein.
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This Brain-Bending 3D Staircase Just Won Best Illusion of The Year For 2020
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This Brain-Bending 3D Staircase Just Won Best Illusion of The Year For 2020
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This Brain-Bending 3D Staircase Just Won Best Illusion of The Year For 2020
It's been one heck of a year, but we're on the home stretch. Now, let's celebrate by looking at something very strange that seems to make no sense whatsoever to my poor befuddled brain.
The Year in Physics
Featuring paradoxical black holes, room-temperature superconductors and a new escape from the prison of time in a great Video from Quantamagazine,
"...By now you’ve probably heard the original quarantine-genius story: Isaac Newton, having fled the plague, revolutionized mathematics and reinvented physics. In a pandemic-afflicted year like 2020, it’s natural to hope for some parallel silver lining. Maybe another prodigy’s ideas are being given the time and space to gestate, and who knows what wonders await...."
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Featuring paradoxical black holes, room-temperature superconductors and a new escape from the prison of time in a great Video from Quantamagazine,
"...By now you’ve probably heard the original quarantine-genius story: Isaac Newton, having fled the plague, revolutionized mathematics and reinvented physics. In a pandemic-afflicted year like 2020, it’s natural to hope for some parallel silver lining. Maybe another prodigy’s ideas are being given the time and space to gestate, and who knows what wonders await...."
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2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
This year, two teams of physicists made profound progress on ideas that could bring about the next revolution in physics. Another still has identified the source of a longstanding cosmic mystery.
00:00 Black Hole Paradox: Here’s an extremely brief version…
00:00 Black Hole Paradox: Here’s an extremely brief version…
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The Cost of Visiting Earth May Be Too Astronomical For Aliens
In 1950, Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi sat down to lunch with some of his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he had worked five years prior as part of the Manhattan Project.
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Think Your Metabolism Is Slow? Here's What Affects How Many Calories You Burn Daily
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Think Your Metabolism Is Slow? Here's What Affects How Many Calories You Burn Daily
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Think Your Metabolism Is Slow? Here's What Affects How Many Calories You Burn Daily
It's a common dieter's lament: "Ugh, my metabolism is so slow, I'm never going to lose any weight."
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These Are 7 of The Strangest Experiments Humans Have Ever Done in Space
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These Are 7 of The Strangest Experiments Humans Have Ever Done in Space
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These Are 7 of The Strangest Experiments Humans Have Ever Done in Space
The way things behave in microgravity may seem obvious to us now, after humans have been venturing into space for over 50 years.
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These 10 Amazing Physics Stories Were Massive News in 2020
Let's admit it: It's been a pretty rough year for our neck of the Solar System. But it's been a great year for scientists studying more distant reaches of the Universe. From a colossal explosion to mystery burps deciphered, here were some of the to
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People With This Rare Brain Condition Can't 'Count Sheep' in Their Mind
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People With This Rare Brain Condition Can't 'Count Sheep' in Their Mind
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People With This Rare Brain Condition Can't 'Count Sheep' in Their Mind
When falling asleep, it's not unusual to imagine a calm, provincial scene, like a flock of sheep jumping over a fence.
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Jupiter Is Bigger Than Some Stars, So Why Didn't We Get a Second Sun?
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Jupiter Is Bigger Than Some Stars, So Why Didn't We Get a Second Sun?
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Jupiter Is Bigger Than Some Stars, So Why Didn't We Get a Second Sun?
The smallest known main-sequence star in the Milky Way galaxy is a real pixie of a thing.
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Researchers Developed AI That Tells Apart True Conspiracies From Conspiracy Theories
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Researchers Developed AI That Tells Apart True Conspiracies From Conspiracy Theories
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The audio on the otherwise shaky body camera footage is unusually clear. As police officers search a handcuffed man who moments before had fired a shot inside a pizza parlor, an officer asks him why he was there.