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We learn about some awesome science in high school – like Einstein’s theory of relativity, the Periodic table, and DNA replication. The knowledge we pick up there sets the foundations…
Has the Higgs boson been rediscovered? Perhaps technically, with the creative application of a computer capable of sorting through massive quantities of data. By making computation faster, researchers are hoping…
If you want to freeze your water faster, heat it up first. This counter-intuitive piece of advice comes courtesy of the Mpemba effect, an odd phenomenon in physics that still…
A team of researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia has reportedly made a ‘once-in-a-decade discovery’ that will radically change how we do chemistry. The discovery? The creation of two-dimensional…
You might never have wondered why the Universe has just three spatial dimensions, but it is a question that has long vexed physicists. An idea that mixes particle physics with…
The discovery of a unique property in what’s known as a Majorana fermion has given researchers an easy way to spot the real deal from a fraud. Such particles are…
At just 53 attoseconds, a single flash of an X-ray laser has become the shortest light pulse of its kind in the history of optics, smashing the previous record by…
The electric honeycomb, or rose window instability, is a curious phenomenon. It occurs when a high-voltage corona charge – the ionisation of air surrounding a conductor – is applied from…
Scientists have set a new record in optical measurements using photons, achieving a level of precision that before now was only possible in the world of theory. In a first-of-its-kind…
One of the most peculiar aspects of quantum theory is the observer effect, the idea that the very act of observing and measuring something – just observing and measuring, nothing…