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CERN's mini particle accelerator could finally smash apart electrons

Physics

CERN's mini particle accelerator could finally smash apart electrons

We’ve never accelerated electrons to high enough energies to smash them apart before, but a new machine at the home of the Large Hadron Collider is a step towards doing so

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Artificial muscles and prosthetics could be made of gel-infused wood

Physics

Artificial muscles and prosthetics could be made of gel-infused wood

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The ultraclean icicle and the droplet, after melting.

Technology

World’s cleanest drop of water reveals why nothing is ever truly clean

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Freak gravitational waves could form black holes and destroy Earth

Space

Freak gravitational waves could form black holes and destroy Earth

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Asteroids get spun so fast by the force of sunlight they fall apart

Space

Asteroids get spun so fast by the force of sunlight they fall apart

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New world map is a more accurate Earth and shows Africa's full size

Earth

New world map is a more accurate Earth and shows Africa's full size

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A 4D-printed model of the Sydney Opera House

Technology

Watch 4D-printed ceramics form elaborate, shape-shifting structures

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Physics

This one particle could solve five mega-mysteries of physics

Features

Weird circles in the sky may be signs of a universe before ours

Space

Weird circles in the sky may be signs of a universe before ours

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Snapped spaghetti

Physics

We have finally figured out how to snap spaghetti into two pieces

Snap a piece of dry spaghetti and you will always end up with three or more pieces - but now mathematicians have figured out how to get a single clean break

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Technology

Google just made it much harder to build a serious quantum computer

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Physics

Ancient natural nuclear reactors show how to store radioactive waste

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Physics

High-speed electrons prove Einstein was right about the speed of light

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Physics

Sound waves are a form of antigravity because they have negative mass

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