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Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target

The binary asteroid’s orbit around the Sun was affected by the impact. Italy’s LICIACube spacecraft snapped this image of asteroids […]

Despite the headline, this isn’t really a story about superconductivity—at least not the superconductivity that people care about, the stuff […]

We’re all familiar with the high-pitched squeak of basketball shoes on the court during games, or tires squealing on pavement. […]

In 1953, Russian scientists peeling Scotch tape in a vacuum reported detecting electrons with sufficient energy to emit X-rays. Other […]

Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. […]

Physicists at the University of Amsterdam came up with a really cool bit of Christmas decor: a miniature 3D-printed Christmas […]

Since the 1990s, physicists have pondered the tantalizing possibility of an exotic fourth type of neutrino, dubbed the “sterile” neutrino, […]

The assassination of a Hungarian duke, why woodpeckers grunt when they peck, and more. Skull of remains found in a […]

Skip to content But the differences are likely to be subtle, so it won’t be easy. First image of a […]

As a test case, the machine was used to test a model of superconductivity. Quantum computers based on ions or […]