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7 Quantum Particles Act Like Billions in Weird Physics Experiment
By Rafi Letzter published
Just seven photons in a mirrored trap formed a Bose-Einstein condensate, one of the more exotic particle states — and one usually reserved for matter.
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Scientists Blasted Mirrors with Lasers to Listen to Light
By Yasemin Saplakoglu published
Light has momentum, and scientists can hear it.
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A Field Covered in Dead, Headless Reindeer and Poop Is Teaching Us About the Circle of Life
By Yasemin Saplakoglu published
Scavengers are helping transform a grim landscape in Norway
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Plasma Scientists Created Invisible, Whooping 'Whistlers' in a Lab
By Rafi Letzter published
The strange radio bursts usually circle the Earth like electromagnetic ghosts, but scientists have now created and studied their shapes in a plasma chamber on Earth.
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Physicists Tied Laser Beams into Knots
By Rafi Letzter published
The technology could improve future precision light sources. But right now the biggest surprise is how many holes there are in a laser figure-eight.
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Here's How Your Water Bottle Could Start a Fire
By Kimberly Hickok published
Be careful where you leave your water bottles this summer.
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Artists Have Been Drawing Lightning Bolts Wrong for Centuries
By Laura Geggel published
If you draw lightning bolts like crooked zigzags, then you're doing it wrong — but at least you're in good company. Artists have drawn lightning incorrectly for hundreds of years, a new study finds.
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Ghostly 'Lightning' Waves Discovered Inside a Nuclear Reactor
By Marcus Woo published
Whistler waves are normally produced in the atmosphere by lightning. They could help protect nuclear fusion reactors from runaway electrons.
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