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Scientists blasted plastic with lasers and turned it into tiny diamonds and a new type of waterShock-compressing PET plastics can create tiny nanodiamonds with a range of technological applications.
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Rogue black hole wandering Milky Way alone proves Einstein right againAstronomers have directly measured the mass and velocity of an isolated black hole for the first time using gravitational lensing.
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Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletopThis newly-discovered particle could account for dark matter.
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Temperatures colder than space achieved here on Earth using superconducting X-ray laserUsing a superconducting X-ray laser, researchers at SLAC achieved a temperature 4 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero.
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Dark matter could be a cosmic relic from extra dimensionsMassive gravitons may have formed a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, in abundances great enough to account for dark matter.
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The sun: Facts about the bright star at the center of the solar systemReference The sun is the solar system's central star and enables all life on Earth to exist and flourish.
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Exoplanets: Alien worlds beyond our solar systemReference As long as humanity has been gazing at the stars we have dreamed about life on other worlds, now known as exoplanets.
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What is the 'Gold Foil Experiment'? The Geiger-Marsden experiments explainedThe Geiger-Marsden experiment, also called the gold foil experiment, gave physicists their first view of the structure of the atomic nucleus.
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These 10 extreme exoplanets are out of this worldFrom worlds that rain iron and glass to diamond worlds and planets that have escaped the grip of their parent stars, here are 10 of the most extreme alien planets.
