Physics

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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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How Scientists Predict Volcanic Eruptions Science

How Scientists Predict Volcanic Eruptions

From seismometers to satellite radar, volcanologists combine multiple monitoring tools to forecast eruptions days or even hours in advance—saving thou...

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How Quantum Batteries Work—and Why They Matter Science

How Quantum Batteries Work—and Why They Matter

Quantum batteries use superposition and entanglement to store energy, charging faster as they grow larger. A 2026 Australian prototype proved the conc...

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What Are Jellyfish Galaxies and How Do They Form? Science

What Are Jellyfish Galaxies and How Do They Form?

Jellyfish galaxies trail long tentacles of gas and newborn stars as they hurtle through galaxy clusters. Here is how ram-pressure stripping creates th...

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What Is Quantum Advantage and How Does It Work? Technology

What Is Quantum Advantage and How Does It Work?

Quantum advantage is the point where quantum computers solve useful problems faster or more cheaply than any classical machine. Here is how it works,...

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How Comets Break Apart—and What Scientists Learn Science

How Comets Break Apart—and What Scientists Learn

Comets are fragile relics of the early solar system. When they fragment, scientists gain rare access to pristine material billions of years old, revea...

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