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How Stellar Archaeology Works—and What Old Stars Reveal Science

How Stellar Archaeology Works—and What Old Stars Reveal

Stellar archaeology uses spectroscopy and chemical analysis to read the composition of ancient stars, unlocking secrets about the earliest era of the...

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How Dust Storms Create Electricity on Mars Science

How Dust Storms Create Electricity on Mars

Mars dust devils and storms generate static electricity strong enough to spark, reshaping the planet's chemistry and posing challenges for future miss...

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How the Migdal Effect Works—and Why It Hunts Dark Matter Science

How the Migdal Effect Works—and Why It Hunts Dark Matter

The Migdal effect is a quantum phenomenon where a recoiling atomic nucleus ejects an electron, amplifying faint signals that could reveal lightweight...

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Why the Moon's Far Side Looks Nothing Like the Near Side Science

Why the Moon's Far Side Looks Nothing Like the Near Side

The Moon's hidden hemisphere is rugged, crater-scarred, and almost devoid of the dark plains visible from Earth. The explanation traces back to the Mo...

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What Are 'Forbidden' Planets and Why They Exist Science

What Are 'Forbidden' Planets and Why They Exist

Gas giant exoplanets orbiting tiny red dwarf stars defy the leading models of planet formation. Here is how these so-called forbidden planets challeng...

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What Is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Why It Matters Science

What Is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Why It Matters

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is Earth's most powerful ocean current, carrying 135 times more water than all the world's rivers combined. It regul...

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How Scientists Read Erased Ancient Texts With X-Rays Science

How Scientists Read Erased Ancient Texts With X-Rays

Palimpsests — manuscripts scraped clean and rewritten centuries ago — hide lost works by history's greatest minds. Modern imaging technologies, from m...

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How Tokamak Fusion Reactors Work—and How Close We Are Science

How Tokamak Fusion Reactors Work—and How Close We Are

Tokamaks use powerful magnetic fields to confine superheated plasma in a donut-shaped chamber, replicating the energy process that powers the sun. Wit...

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How Quantum Batteries Work—and Why They Charge Faster Science

How Quantum Batteries Work—and Why They Charge Faster

Quantum batteries use superposition and entanglement to store energy, and counterintuitively charge faster as they grow larger. Here's how the technol...

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How Mu2e Hunts for Physics Beyond the Standard Model Science

How Mu2e Hunts for Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Fermilab's Mu2e experiment aims to catch a muon converting into an electron without emitting neutrinos—a process forbidden by the Standard Model that...

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How the Rubin Observatory Will Map the Entire Sky Science

How the Rubin Observatory Will Map the Entire Sky

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile uses the world's largest digital camera to photograph the entire visible sky every three nights, hunting astero...

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What Are MXenes and Why They Could Rival Graphene Science

What Are MXenes and Why They Could Rival Graphene

MXenes are a fast-growing family of two-dimensional materials made from transition metal carbides and nitrides, offering metallic conductivity, tunabl...

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