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China is now home to the world's most powerful centrifuge capable of creating artificial gravity. This facility will enable a range of experiments to help make sense of scientific phenomena, simulate geological events, and test new materials.
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The first direct visualization of the shape of a photon has been created. These particles of light are impossible to photograph, but UK physicists have now calculated their wave function to produce an accurate image of a photon as it’s emitted.
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Drinking water in developed countries is pretty clean, but hidden nasties can still lurk. One mysterious “phantom chemical” has haunted drinking water for decades, and now researchers have identified it – and found it’s completely new to science.
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Squirrels seen hunting and killing small animals for first time
December 22, 2024Unless you're a nut, cute little squirrels pose little threat – but they could have a surprising murderous streak. After watching squirrels in California for 12 years, scientists have seen them actively hunt and kill small rodents this past summer. -
Hot Jupiter planet spotted with a tail like a colossal comet
December 21, 2024Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet with a tail, like a gigantic comet. The planet, known as WASP-69b, is slowly evaporating in the radiation of its host star. -
Dive! Dive! ESA studies space travel using Portuguese Navy submarines
December 21, 2024In what seems like a remarkably obvious move, ESA is working with the Portuguese Space Agency and the Portuguese Navy to use life aboard a naval submarine to learn more about the effects of isolation during long-term space missions. -
A football field in a teaspoon: New material has insane surface area
December 20, 2024Using principles from rocket science, researchers have created carbon with a record-breaking surface area. The material can soak up about twice the amount of CO2 as current activated carbon materials and has impressive energy-storage capabilities. -
Starliner astronauts "not stranded" another month
December 19, 2024The two NASA astronauts "not stranded" on the International Space Station (ISS) are "not stranded" for another month. Due to a delay in the next crew rotation mission, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will remain on the station until late March. -
Surprisingly slow speed of human thought calculated by Caltech
December 18, 2024A new study from Caltech calculates that our brains process information at the extremely slow speed of just 10 bits per second. This leisurely pace may have long evolutionary roots, despite our sensory systems gathering data 100 million times faster. -
World's largest iceberg escapes watery prison
December 16, 2024Traffic in the vicinity of Antarctica has become a bit trickier now that A23a, the world's oldest and largest iceberg, has broken free of its watery trap north of the South Orkney Islands and is floating northward on the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. -
Air crash inquiry uncovers amazing detail from 100 million miles away
December 14, 2024Future space helicopters may benefit as NASA completes history's first interplanetary aircraft crash inquiry. The yet-to-be-released technical report explains why the space agency's Ingenuity Mars helicopter crashed on January 18, 2024. -
Magnetic "metasheet" material moves objects like a conveyor belt
December 14, 2024Scientists at North Carolina State University have created a magnetic “metasheet” that can move objects and liquids around without needing robot arms or grippers. -
Bizarre particle gains or loses mass depending on direction it travels
December 11, 2024Scientists have accidentally discovered a particle that has mass when traveling in one direction, but no mass while moving in a different direction. Known as semi-Dirac fermions, particles with this bizarre behavior were first predicted 16 years ago.
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