Diamond stands up to a squeeze. Surprisingly, the material’s structure persists even when compressed to 2 trillion pascals, more than…
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It feels good to recycle. There’s a certain sense of accomplishment that comes from dutifully sorting soda bottles, plastic bags…
Read More »FundamentalsFrank WilczekPenguin Press, $26 As the story is usually told, science began when some deep thinkers in ancient Greece decided…
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Read More »For the first time, astronomers have definitively spotted a flaring magnetar in another galaxy. These ultra-magnetic stellar corpses were thought…
Read More »The most ancient black hole ever discovered is so big it defies explanation. This active supermassive black hole, or quasar,…
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Read More »The Parker Solar Probe is no stranger to the sun. On January 17, the NASA spacecraft will make its seventh…
Read More »The New Climate WarMichael E. MannPublic Affairs, $29 Sometime around the fifth century B.C., the Chinese general and military strategist…
Read More »2020 is in a “dead heat” with 2016 for the hottest year on record, scientists with NASA and the National…
Read More »Inside a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists have found one of the oldest known artistic depictions of…
Read More »The warming planet continues to affect even the coldest parts of the world. More recently, scientists reported that the Arctic…
Read More »While COVID-19 does leave long-term effects on survivors, a new study suggests that those effects can heal over time. With…
Read More »Apple continues its efforts to improve health and well-being by helping out UCLA on a three-year study on depression and…
Read More »One of the unnoticed aftermath of the pandemic is the increasing generated waste from thrown away personal protective equipment (PPEs).…
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