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Patient receiving radiation therapy

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.

Cancer
A little boy with hair standing on end from static electricity

What Causes Static Electricity?

By Grant Currin published

Static electricity is so common that it's easy to forget how weird it is.

Space
An illustration shows how laser light (represented by the glowing orbs) hits a charge density wave, it changes the wave's behavior.

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.

Physics & Mathematics
The KATRIN experiment's giant spectrometer passed through Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany in 2006 on its way to the nearby Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

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.

Cosmology
South Pole aurora

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.

Planet Earth
Abstract background of an electron swirling around in an atom.

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.

Particle Physics
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Exploding Stars May Have Put Humanity on Two Feet

By Mindy Weisberger published

Is there a cosmic origin for human bipedalism?

Planet Earth
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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.

Quantum Physics
Artist's impression of an electron.

What a Tiny Electron Reveals About the Structure of the Universe

By Alexey Petrov Professor of Physics published

Opinion

Opinion
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Already Weird Atoms Get Stranger, May Hold Ability to Bond with 'Nothing'

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

Trilobite atoms can bind to ghost atoms, aka those that don't exist.

Physics & Mathematics
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