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'The greatest unknown was how much energy would be released by the weapon': How scientists prepared for the Trinity nuclear test -
'A mixture from zero to infinity': Physicists tried splitting a photon — and unleashed an improbable swarm of particles35 Comments
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Are quasiparticles real?Life's Little Mysteries Given the "quasi" in quasiparticles, do scientists consider them to be real particles?
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Mathematician Hong Wang becomes third woman to win the Fields Medal, one of the world’s most prestigious math prizesHong Wang, a mathematician at New York University, helped solve a decades-old geometry problem and is now the third woman to win math's most prestigious award.
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What does 'cryptology' mean?Science word of the day Pronunciation: Krip-TAH'-leh-jee
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzleA decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case — not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude.
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Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking's elusive radiation theoryScientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of light in the laboratory.
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Was Einstein wrong about anything?Life's Little Mysteries Albert Einstein is regarded as a genius, but even he admitted that his work wasn't perfect. So what did he get wrong?
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A mini-universe recreates time, arctic ice gets thickened, one of the oldest graves of a free Black person in the US found, and the first photo from a secretive Chinese mission to a quasi moon.Science news this week July 11, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend
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NASA is creating a fifth state of matter on the ISS following upgrades to mini-fridge-sized quantum labA new set of upgrades to the International Space Station’s Cold Atom Laboratory is allowing NASA to probe quantum mechanics at the coldest possible temperatures while in zero gravity.
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Physicists develop the first working model of quantum mechanics using only 'real' numbersPhysicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, resolving a question that's simmered since the field began.
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