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Neutrinos May Still Have Broken Light Barrier – Or Not
Neutrinos which appeared to have undermined a basic law of the universe by exceeding the speed of light might...
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New Uncertainty About the Uncertainty Principle
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is often invoked outside the realm of physics to describe how the act of observing...
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Do Aliens Go Invisible By ‘Going Green’?
The Fermi Paradox asks the simple question “where are they?” Our Milky Way galaxy is so big and so...
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The High Price of Long Life
Recent media stories suggest that anti-aging medicine may soon change from fantasy into a scientifically realistic prospect. If anti-aging...
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Particle Physics and the Flavor of the Day
Fundamental particles are the building blocks of matter, and, apparently, come in many more flavors than the basic few...
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Online Gamers Achieve First Crowd-Sourced Redesign of Protein
Obsessive gamers’ hours at the computer have now topped scientists’ efforts to improve a model enzyme, in what researchers...
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Lasers Are Even Cooler Than We Thought
Scientists at Denmark’s Niels Bohr Institute have figured out a cool new way to lower the temperature of hot...
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Quantum Computing Could Head to ‘the Cloud’
The search for the perfect alliance between science and technology has married quantum computing to the future of IT...
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What Happened Before the Big Bang?
What existed before the big bang? What is the nature of time? Is our universe one of many? On...
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Why Science Is More Fragile Than Faith
We tend to see modernity in part as a triumph of science—an age when experimental discoveries and analysis have...