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'Monster Star' Baby Photos Captured by Giant TelescopeA giant radio telescope in Chile has captured amazing baby photos of what will eventually be a colossal star 11,000 light-years from Earth. Even more shocking: It's still growing, scientists say.
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Weird Quantum Tunneling Enables 'Impossible' Space ChemistryQuantum mechanics is enabling chemical reactions in space that shouldn't be possible.
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Solar Flares Fire Off Antimatter ParticlesAstronomers have detected exotic antimatter particles flying from the sun during solar flares — a discovery that could help scientists understand this mysterious sibling to matter.
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'Nuclear Pasta' in Neutron Stars: New Type of Matter FoundThis weird form of matter appears to limit the spin periods of such stars.
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Giant Black Hole's Dust Oddity Surprises ScientistsDust around a supermassive black hole has been blown away from where astronomers expected to find it.
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New 'Charmed' Particle Represents Rare State of MatterThe new particle seems to be made of four quarks.
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Trove of Black Holes Discovered in Andromeda GalaxyAndromeda has more known black holes than any galaxy besides the Milky Way.
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Weird Quantum Entanglement Achieves New RecordA new record in "heralding efficiency" means detecting entangled particles is easier than ever.
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New Telescope Strategy Could Resolve Dark-Matter Mystery, Scientists SayNASA's Fermi telescope has seen a possible signal of dark matter, but more data is needed.
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Do Black Holes Create New Universes? Q&A With Physicist Lee SmolinIf time is real, the laws of nature may evolve over time, Smolin says.
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Underground Experiment Asks Why We're Not AntimatterA theorized particle decay could help explain why the universe contains so little antimatter.
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Exquisite Map of Cosmos Hints at Universe's BirthThe light left over from the Big Bang may help answer some of the thorniest cosmic conundrums.
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Mars Meteorite May Fetch $160,000 At AuctionThe meteorite was found in 2012 in Morocco's Sahara Desert.
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Storms That Spawned Deadly Oklahoma Tornadoes Seen from Space (Video)The storms that gave rise to the Moore, Okla. tornado and others nearby were sighted from space.
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World's Smallest Liquid Droplets Created in Atom Smashery are 1/100,000 the size of a hydrogen atom or 1/100,000,000 the size of a typical virus.
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Property of Rarest Element on Earth Measured for 1st TimeThe discovery fills in a missing piece of the periodic table.
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Oops! The 5 Greatest Scientific BlundersThe new book "Brilliant Blunders" highlights genius mistakes.
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'Einstein's Planet': New Alien World Revealed by RelativityAstronomers used a new method to discover a planet orbiting another star.
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The Hunt for Elusive Gravity Waves Heats UpGravity waves, predicted by Einstein, have yet to be seen, but new advanced experiments are in the works.
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Astronomer Sleuths Solve Civil War Mystery of 'Stonewall' Jackson's DeathA trick of the moonlight might be to blame for the friendly fire that killed Jackson.
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Quantum Mechanics Trick May Detect Invisible Gravity WavesPhysicists have hunted for predicted gravitational waves without luck so far.
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Crazy World: Antimatter Might Just Fall UpPhysicists tried to test whether antigravity exists.
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Controversially, Physicist Argues Time Is RealScience generally describes time as an illusion.
