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New Particle Discovered After 80 Years Of Searching

It's not everyday that scientists observe a brand new particle, but today is one of those rare breakthroughs in history.A team of physicists at Princeton University and the University of Texas at...

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Japanese Physicists Win Nobel Prize For Revolutionary Light Bulbs

The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura on Tuesday for inventing the blue light-emitting diode (LED), an energy-efficient light source. "By using blue...

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Two Americans, One German Win Chemistry Nobel Prize For Groundbreaking Work...

The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, and William E. Moerner on Wednesday morning for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.""The work of the...

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There's An Excellent Reason Why A Blue Lightbulb Just Won The Nobel Prize

The results are in for the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics. If the brilliant light show above doesn't give it away, then let me enlighten you.On Tuesday, Oct. 7, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...

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A Lab-Made Black Hole May Confirm The Existence Of Exotic Radiation Predicted...

A whisper from a lab-manufactured black hole may confirm the existence of radiation predicted by University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking four decades ago. If validated by further research,...

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Quantum Computing Is About To Be The Biggest Breakthrough Of The Century

A dramatic increase in the amount of time data can be stored on a single atom means silicon could once again play a vital role in the development of super-fast computers.The silicon chip revolutionised...

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Inside New York's Atom Smasher: Recreating The 7-Trillion-Degree Conditions...

The early evolution of our universe can be recreated at a New York lab.Although scientists don't really know what happened before the Big Bang, they have a pretty good idea of what the universe looked...

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Scientists At The Biggest Particle Collider In The World Discover A New Particle

A newly discovered subatomic particle will provide opportunities to learn about how the most powerful of nature's forces operates.It takes a big team to investigate the very small. In the case of the...

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Scientists Are Bashing Lockheed Martin's Nuclear Fusion 'Breakthrough'

Researchers at Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Skunk Works, announced on Wednesday their ongoing work on a new technology that could bring about functional nuclear reactors powered by fusion in the next 10...

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This Scientist Opened A New Era In Astronomy

In order to catch something very small, sometimes you have to build something very big.When Francis Halzen wanted to study neutrinos — tiny, subatomic particles that fly through just about everything...

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Scientists Have Figured Out What Color The Universe Is

Looking up at the sky on a chilly fall night, the universe looks like a big black curtain dotted by pearls of ivory and glimmers of sparkling diamond white.In reality, those tiny spots of light...

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Astronomers Got Peeved When Someone Wrote A Paper Suggesting Black Holes...

When news broke this September that a pair of physicists, Lauren Herald Mersini-Houghton at the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill and Herald P. Pfeiffer at the University of Toronto, had...

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Here's The 'Shocking' New Evidence That Black Holes Don't Exist

Don't tell "Interstellar" director Christopher Nolan this, but black holes don't exist, according to a scientific paper published earlier this year.Black holes are some of the most extreme environments...

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Astrophysicists Claim They've Proven That Black Holes Don't Exist — Here's...

When a massive star, 20 to 30 times the mass of our sun, ends its life in a brilliant burst of light, known as a supernova, the remaining core collapses in on itself due to gravity. The result is...

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Now Commonly Accepted As Fact, Black Holes Were Once Purely Fiction

***SPOILER ALERT: This article contains plot spoilers for the movie "Interstellar." If you would like to avoid the spoilers, skip the THREE paragraphs that are italicized. ***(Inside Science) —...

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Astronomers Are Mystified By This Rare, Flickering Jet of Matter From A Black...

A close-up view of a rare, flickering black hole jet has scientist rethinking how these enormous eruptions form.Black holes are mostly known for gobbling up everything that gets near them, including...

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Astronomers Caught This Amazing Stellar Pulse With The Hubble Telescope

Illuminate the universe and you'll see more beauty than you could ever imagine.That's exactly what a cosmic phenomenon, called a light echo, does.This Hubble image to the right was taken in February,...

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Crazy Image Of A Dark Nebula Looks Like It Is Writhing In Agony

Adam Block, manager at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter at the University of Arizona sent us this image of the nebula LBN 438, explaining that this dark cloud of dust glows eerily both from scattered...

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3 Researchers Just Won $3 Million For Their Game-Changing Physics Finding

It pays to be smart, and that's very true in the case of the 2015 Breakthrough Prize awards winners. These three winners will share $3 million in prize money for their groundbreaking work probing the...

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This Image Shows All The Alien Landscapes Humans Have Explored

And now there are eight. With Philae’s incredible landing on a comet earlier this week, humans have now done soft landings on eight solar system bodies. And that’s just in the first 57 years of space...

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