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An article from Science News Nov 2019
How two gamma-ray bursts created record-breaking high-energy photons
An article from Science News Nov 2019
A tiny switch could redirect light between computer chips in mere nanoseconds
An article from Science News Nov 2019
Trapping atoms in a laser beam offers a new way to measure gravity
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Molecular jiggling may explain why some solids shrink when heated
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The solar system may have a new smallest dwarf planet: Hygiea
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Strontium is the first heavy element detected from a neutron star merger
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With 20 new moons, Saturn now has the most of any solar system planet
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A new image reveals the structure of the cosmic web
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CO2 from champagne bottles can form shock waves like those seen in rocket exhaust
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Gravitational waves from a ringing black hole support the no-hair theorem
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Einstein’s general relativity reveals new features of a pulsar
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Iron sulfide may be keeping Mercury’s core toasty and its magnetic field alive
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A chip made with carbon nanotubes, not silicon, marks a computing milestone
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Quantum physicists have teleported ‘qutrits’ for the first time
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New cloaking devices could hide objects from water waves and currents
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Giant, active galaxies from the early universe may have finally been found
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Increased control over ions’ motions may help improve quantum computers
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Scientists still can’t agree on the universe’s expansion rate
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Diamond detectors could aid the search for dark matter
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A computer model explains how to make perfectly smooth crepes
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Astronomers may have spotted the ghost galaxy that hit the Milky Way long ago
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The accretion disk around our galaxy’s black hole has been spotted at last
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In a first, scientists took the temperature of a sonic black hole
An article from Science News May 2019
The kilogram just got a revamp. A unit of time might be next
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Apollo-era moonquakes reveal that the Moon may be tectonically active
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Dying stars called collapsars may forge much of the universe’s gold
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Skepticism grows over whether the first known exomoon exists
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This is the slowest radioactive decay ever spotted
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Saturn’s moon Titan sports phantom hydrocarbon lakes
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The first picture of a black hole opens a new era of astrophysics
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The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors are back on
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How a proton gets its spin is surprisingly complicated
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Surprising astronomers, Bennu spits plumes of dust into space
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Ultraprecise atomic clocks put Einstein’s special relativity to the test
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Hidden ancient neutrinos may shape the patterns of galaxies
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Supernovas show the universe expands at the same rate in all directions
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Photons reveal a weird effect called the quantum pigeonhole paradox
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A space rock collision may explain how this exoplanet was born
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Lasers could send messages right to a listener’s ear
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The latest picture of Ultima Thule reveals a remarkably smooth face
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Being messy on the inside keeps metamaterials from folding under stress
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A cosmic flare called the ‘Cow’ may reveal a new way that stars die
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A weird type of zirconium soaks up neutrons like a sponge
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New Horizons shows Ultima Thule looks like a snowman, or maybe BB-8
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2019 International Year of the Periodic Table Published in 2019
The United Nations has proclaimed 2019 the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT2019). The same year also marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table, containing…
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50th anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon landing Published in 2019
On July 20, 1969, the bulkily space-suited figure of astronaut Neil Armstrong descended the ladder of Apollo 11’s lunar lander, planted his boot in the Moon's gray dust, and declared: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."…
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Abbe, Ernst (1840–1905)
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Abetti, Giorgio (1882–1982)
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Absolute zero
The temperature at which matter reaches a lowest energy state and all thermal activity theoretically ceases. Absolute zero is popularly conceived as the coldest possible temperature that a given system of matter, such as an atom, may reach.…
