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A Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill

In a physics lab in Amsterdam, there’s a wheel that can spontaneously roll uphill by wiggling. This “odd...

The Physics of Going Fast—but Not Too Fast—on a Giant Slide

You might have seen some of the viral videos of this giant steel slide at Belle Isle Park in...

Randall Munroe Is Back to Answer Your Impossible Questions

What if you wanted to visit the sun? That seems like a bad idea—unless you want to melt, or...

Pulsars are Blasting out Cosmic Rays With a Million Billion Electronvolts

We are living in an exciting time, where next-generation instruments and improved methods are leading to discoveries in astronomy,...

Could Climate Change Alter the Length of the Day?

June 29, 2022, was the shortest day ever on record, at 1. 59 milliseconds less than 24 hours ....

Crab and lobster shells could be used to make renewable batteries

Scientists want to use a chemical found in crab and lobster shells to make batteries more sustainable, according to...

How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

Millennia ago, Aristotle asserted that nature abhors a vacuum, reasoning that objects would fly through truly empty space at...

Where Do High-Energy Cosmic Rays Come From? A Star’s Last Gasp

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is one of the most ambitious undertakings in particle physics. For nearly...

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