Tim Childers
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Lab-grown black hole analog behaves just like Stephen Hawking said it wouldLike mad scientists, researchers are creating miniature black holes in their laboratories. Their mission? To see if a mysterious form of radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking exists.
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Astronomers find the fastest spinning black hole to dateThe first black hole ever discovered just put on a lot of mass, and it has astronomers confused.
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5G Network: How does it work, and is it dangerous?By Tim Childers Published
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Cosmic bubbles may have forged dark matter, new theory suggestsNew theory suggests cosmic bubbles during the birth of our universe are responsible for creating dark matter.
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Physicists entangle 15 trillion hot atomsPhysicists set a new record by linking together a hot soup of 15 trillion atoms in a bizarre phenomenon called quantum entanglement.
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Is life a gamble? Scientist models universe to find outScientist finds life in the universe could be common, but we may never find it.
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What is epidemiology?Learn how these disease detectives save lives by studying and preventing the spread of the worst bugs and diseases.
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Physicists link quantum memories across the longest distance everWe're one step closer to having quantum internet, but wait, what is quantum internet?
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What is ocean acidification?The global increase in carbon dioxide emissions is not only warming our planet at an alarming rate, but it's also making our oceans more acidic.
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Identity-Switching Neutrinos Could Reveal Why We Exist At All. But Can We Find Them?Scientists are searching for a ghostly neutrino particle that acts as its own antiparticle. If they find it, the discovery could resolve a cosmic conundrum: Why does matter exist at all?
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Physicists Just Created the Most Detailed Simulation of the Universe in HistoryAn international team of scientists has created the most detailed large-scale model of the universe to date, a simulation they call TNG50.
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We May Finally Understand the Moments Before the Big BangPhysicists may have solved a decades-long mystery about how our universe came to be.
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Google's Quantum Computer Just Aced an 'Impossible' TestFor the first time, a quantum computer has solved a task that Google says would be impossible for the most advanced supercomputers in the world.
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Einstein's Theory Predicts a Weird State of Matter. Could It Be Lurking in the World's Largest Atom Smasher?This mysterious matter was predicted from Einstein's theory of special relativity, but physicists can't seem to find it!
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Right Again, Einstein! Wobbling Pulsar Confirms General RelativityA pulsar 25,000 light-years away is wobbling in a weird way. But Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted it more than a century ago.
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'Einstein's Biggest Blunder' May Have Finally Been FixedThe cosmological constant has plagued physicists for more than a century.
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What's the Difference Between Asteroids, Comets and Meteors?Look! Up in the sky! It's an asteroid.... No, it's a comet.... Wait, it's neither?
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Astronomers Create 8 Million Baby Universes Inside a Computer and Watch Them Grow. Here's What They Learned."UniverseMachine" churns out millions of unique universes to study dark matter and the evolution of galaxies.
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A Tiny Magma Blob May Rewrite Earth's History of Plate TectonicsAn International team of scientists finds evidence that Earth began recycling itself more than 3 billion years ago.
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If Aliens Are Flashing Laser Beams at Us, We Now Have a Way to Detect ThemAre aliens using super powerful flashlights to get our attention? Astronomers think there's a chance they are.
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