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Science history: Marie Curie discovers a strange radioactive substance that would eventually kill her — Dec. 26, 1898Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them.
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Crack these scientific numbers and constants and top the leaderboardGuess the number quiz Do you know your mathematical equations from your scientific constants? If you know your numbers then try our daily quiz.
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AI is solving 'impossible' math problems. Can it best the world's top mathematicians?AI is making gains in solving pure math problems. Can it crack the hardest problems in mathematics?
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Historic search for 'huge missing piece' of the universe reveals new secrets of particle physicsScientists hunted dark matter and solar neutrinos with one of the largest experiments yet. While the neutrinos likely appeared, dark matter results couldn't be confirmed.
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What was the loudest sound ever recorded?Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.
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Law of 'maximal randomness' explains how broken objects shatter in the most annoying way possibleA new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti.
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World's largest neutrino detector starts up — with incredible resultsDeep underground in southern China, there is a 20,000-ton tank of liquid that can detect neutrinos. Named JUNO, the detector's first results are in — and they're very promising.
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For the first time, physicists peer inside the nucleus of a molecule using electrons as a probeA novel experiment has revealed a phenomenon called the Bohr–Weisskopf effect in a pear-shaped nucleus in a molecule for the first time.
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Science history: Russian mathematician quietly publishes paper — and solves one of the most famous unsolved conjectures in mathematics — Nov. 11, 2002Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.
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