Science / Physics and Math
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The Hunt for Ultralight Dark Matter
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If or when SLAC’s planned project, the Light Dark Matter Experiment (LDMX), receives funding—a decision from the Department of Energy is expected in the ...

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Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell
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A group led by string theory veterans Burt Ovrut of the University of Pennsylvania and Andre Lukas of Oxford went further. They too started with Ruehle’s ...

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Why Are We Seeing These Crazy Northern Lights?
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The aurora borealis is usually visible only way up north, but two weeks ago the night sky was filled with shimmering curtains of pink and green light that ...

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What Kind of Battery Would You Need to Power a Lightsaber?
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Melting an ice cube takes 3.34 x 105 joules per kilogram. So a single ice cube with a mass of 50 grams would take 16,700 joules. You can already see that ...

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An Old Abstract Field of Math Is Unlocking the Deep Complexity of Spacecraft Orbits
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You can create a graph with the angle as the x-axis and the speed as the y-axis. But since traveling 360 degrees brings you back to the start, you can sew ...

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The Mysterious ‘Dark’ Energy That Permeates the Universe Is Slowly Eroding
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Beyond DESI, a slew of new instruments are coming online in the coming years, including the 8.4-meter Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, NASA’s Nancy Grace ...

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Here’s a Clever Way to Uncover America’s Voting Deserts
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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In Georgia’s 2020 gubernatorial election, some voters in Atlanta waited over 10 hours to cast ...

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The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton
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“How are matter and energy distributed?” asked Peter Schweitzer, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut. “We don’t know.”Schweitzer has ...

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Can You Really Run on Top of a Train, Like in the Movies?
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Just because you see something done in a movie, that doesn't mean you should try it yourself. Take, for example, a human running on top of a moving train. ...

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A Popular Alien-Hunting Technique Is Increasingly in Doubt
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The third factor is the probability of a lifeless planet producing the observed signal—an equally serious challenge, researchers now realize, that’s tangled ...

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Can You View a Round Solar Eclipse Through a Square Hole?
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If you live in the US and missed the last total solar eclipse in 2017, good news! You're about to get another chance. There will be a total solar eclipse ...

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