Physics

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How Nuclear Propulsion Works in Space Science

How Nuclear Propulsion Works in Space

Nuclear propulsion promises to cut Mars travel time in half by using fission reactors to power spacecraft, offering far greater efficiency than chemic...

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What Are Red Giant Stars and How Do They Form? Science

What Are Red Giant Stars and How Do They Form?

Red giants are enormous, cool stars in a late stage of stellar evolution. When a star exhausts its hydrogen fuel, its core contracts while its outer l...

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What Is Antimatter and Why Is It So Hard to Move? Science

What Is Antimatter and Why Is It So Hard to Move?

Antimatter is the mirror image of ordinary matter and annihilates on contact with it, making it the most expensive and volatile substance on Earth. He...

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Australia Builds World's First Quantum Battery Prototype Science

Australia Builds World's First Quantum Battery Prototype

Australian researchers from CSIRO, RMIT University, and the University of Melbourne have created the first proof-of-concept quantum battery that compl...

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How Chip Lithography Works—and Why One Company Owns It Technology

How Chip Lithography Works—and Why One Company Owns It

Chip lithography uses light to print nanoscale circuits onto silicon wafers. One Dutch company, ASML, holds a total monopoly on the most advanced mach...

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What Are Rogue Planets and How Do They Form? Science

What Are Rogue Planets and How Do They Form?

Billions of planets drift through the Milky Way without orbiting any star. Here's how these rogue worlds form, how scientists detect them, and why som...

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How Climate Attribution Science Links Weather to Warming Science

How Climate Attribution Science Links Weather to Warming

Climate attribution science uses weather data and computer models to determine whether climate change made a specific extreme weather event more likel...

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What Are Super-Puff Planets and How Do They Form? Science

What Are Super-Puff Planets and How Do They Form?

Super-puff exoplanets have the density of cotton candy despite being nearly the size of Jupiter. Scientists are using the James Webb Space Telescope t...

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What Are Time Crystals and How Do They Work? Science

What Are Time Crystals and How Do They Work?

Time crystals are an exotic phase of matter whose atoms repeat patterns in time rather than space, defying conventional physics and opening new fronti...

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How Nuclear Clocks Work—and Why They Beat Atomic Ones Science

How Nuclear Clocks Work—and Why They Beat Atomic Ones

Nuclear clocks use energy transitions inside atomic nuclei rather than electron shells, promising ten times the precision of today's best atomic clock...

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How Meteor Fireballs Work—and Why They Boom Science

How Meteor Fireballs Work—and Why They Boom

Every day, thousands of fireballs blaze through Earth's atmosphere. Here's the science behind how space rocks become blazing streaks of light—and why...

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How Photopharmacology Works: Drugs Controlled by Light Science

How Photopharmacology Works: Drugs Controlled by Light

Photopharmacology embeds tiny molecular switches into drugs so doctors can turn them on or off with light, targeting treatment to exact body locations...

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