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Future 'Flash' Radiation Therapy Could Treat Cancer in Milliseconds
By Nicoletta Lanese published
An emerging cancer therapy could someday shorten the time patients spend in treatment and improve their overall outcomes.

What Causes Static Electricity?
By Grant Currin published
Static electricity is so common that it's easy to forget how weird it is.

New, 'Hidden' State of Matter Coaxed into Being by Ultrafast Laser Flashes
By Rafi Letzter published
Physicists think this might be the first of many hidden states of matter that could be uncovered using laser flashes.

Neutrino Experiment Reveals (Again) That Something Is Missing from Our Universe
By Rafi Letzter published
The KATRIN experiment has turned up a new, more-precise-than-ever measurement for the barely-detectable neutrino mass.

What is the ionosphere? (And who is Steve?)
By Nicoletta Lanese published
A concentration of plasma in the Earth's atmosphere, called the ionosphere, interacts with solar winds, ultraviolet radiation and radio waves.

These Odd 'Quasiparticles' Could Finally Unmask Dark Matter
By Paul Sutter published
Tiny ripples called magnons could lure even a fleeting, lightweight dark matter particle out of hiding.

Exploding Stars May Have Put Humanity on Two Feet
By Mindy Weisberger published
Is there a cosmic origin for human bipedalism?

Truly Spooky: How Ghostly Quantum Particles Fly Through Barriers Almost Instantly
By Mindy Weisberger published
Scientists recently unraveled a physics puzzle that has stymied experts since the dawn of quantum mechanics.
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