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Water might secretly be a mix of 2 different liquids, scientists sayFor decades, scientists suspected water secretly behaves like two different liquids. A new AI-powered study has finally caught it happening at the molecular level.
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'A mixture from zero to infinity': Physicists tried splitting a photon — and unleashed an improbable swarm of particlesPhysicists have found that splitting a photon would lead to a complex state that may change the way we think of particles.
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The world's first nuclear clock just ticked on — and it could help detect a fifth fundamental force of physicsBy using a rare thorium nucleus as a timekeeper, physicists have demonstrated the first working nuclear clock, a device that could lead to even more precise clocks and new ways to search for dark matter.
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Richard Feynman's forgotten notes on 'the restaurant problem' finally decipheredResearchers cracked a 50-year-old math problem scribbled by Richard Feynman over lunch. The equations show that humans are better decision-makers than scientists once thought.
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Why can't we figure out how strong gravity is?Life's Little Mysteries Despite dozens of experiments over the years, scientists still don't have a precise measurement for gravity's strength. Why is that?
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Physicists achieve 'perfect randomness' for the first time everPhysicists used quantum bits to achieve "perfect randomness" in a world-first experiment. The results of their research could strengthen cryptography and other security systems.
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Physicists confirm 'negative time' is real in mind-bending quantum experimentA new experiment confirms that photons passing through a cloud of atoms can spend a negative amount of time there, and the atoms themselves are the ones saying so.
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How likely are you to find a message in a bottle?Have you ever wondered how likely it is to find a message in a bottle, especially an old one? Let's do the math.
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Physicists witness pinpricks of darkness moving faster than the speed of lightFor the first time, researchers measured singularities in combined light and sound waves moving faster than the speed of light. The findings have implications in fluid dynamics, optics and many other fields.
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