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Too hot to handle

Chaos and order

...have a strange relationship. And this is how a red blood cell loses its nucleus

Changed perspective

Astronomers evolve new techniques to measure distance of far-off objects

Captured in action

Separating isotopes

Fermilab's latest accelerator

Precision laser

Rings of pressures

Squids of another kind

Spring back with force

A force to reckon

Light arrested

Light's speed is brought to zero. It could radically alter communication technology

Speed of gravity = Speed of light

Disaster in the making?

Earth's magnetic field is fading

Northern lights shifting

Alaska's loss, Siberia's gain

Gravitational Waves: Explained

Hundred years after Albert Einstein’s prediction of the presence of gravitational waves in his Theory of Relativity, a team of scientists …

Shutting down the particle powerhouse

Even though funds for the Superconducting Super Collider have dried up, particle physicists are determined to prove their theory of, well, everything

Smaller and faster

A new technique could result in particle accelerators small enough to be accommodated in any university laboratory

Schrodinger's kittens dead or alive

Can a cat be both dead and alive at the same time? If you believe the classic interpretation of quantum physics, it can. But several scientists …

The central truth

Latest studies lend credence to the theory that the Milky Way has a large black hole at its center

The grain of the matter

The study of a new kind of structure called oscillon could enhance our understanding of the granular system and even lead to an universal theory …

Cousins in space

Observation of the star Lalande 21185 could lead to the first direct imaging of another solar planet

Far but near

Detection of two galaxies that are unassociated with a quasar raise further questions about galactic evolution

Skilful manipulation

A research group has measured the electric resistance of wires with a single xenon atom and two xenon atoms in series; the results call for some …