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How We Make Electricity for the Modern World

The importance of electricity in our modern world can hardly be overstated. What was a luxury a hundred years ago is now a ...
We’re used to seeing ever greater particle accelerators — colossal machines sprawling across landscapes, built to reveal the ...
New multiscale simulations help crack long-standing mysteries behind the enormous radio arcs generated when galaxy clusters ...
A blazar is an extraordinarily bright object with a supermassive black hole at its core. Some of the matter falling into the ...
The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...
Scientists mix plasmas of antiprotons and positrons in a magnetic bottle called a Penning-Malmberg trap. When these particles ...
The Wave Engineering for eXtreme and Intelligent maTErials (We-Xite) lab, led by engineering assistant professor Osama R.
Do you know what 'Dark Matter' is? Take this simple quiz to test your knowledge or gain it if you're unaware., Education, ...
Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...
In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, releasing energy in the process. This energy could heat the hydrogen and helium ...
A doctoral student travels to Washington to explain the enigma of neutrinos, particles that are as strange as they are ...
When the first large language models were unleashed, it triggered a headache for authorities around the world as they tried ...