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Hydrogen turned into a metal for the first time. Technology and spaceflight might never be the same

If confirmed, this could be one of the most revolutionary material of the century

D-Wave upgrades quantum chip to 2,000 qubits, gets first customer for its $15 million machine

No everyone is convinced this machine can actually perform quantum operations, though.

Powerful sound blasters can render tsunamis dead in the water, new study shows

Fus-ro-dah!

Scientists want to track ocean heat using magnetic fields

As the Earth heats up, much of the heat sinks into the oceans.

Scientists learn why hair is almost as strong as steel. One immediate application is a hairy body armor

That soft, mushy mass on your scalp is stronger than you think.

Tiny aluminium drum cooled beyond quantum limit proves we can make things even colder. Possibly down to absolute zero

Physics just got way cooler.

What shape is the Universe, really?

The Universe is flat, according to modern research. But what does that mean?

Physicists observe the light spectrum of antimatter for the first time

Physicists just fulfilled one of their long-standing goals.

Scientists believe they've identified the source of the mysterious sound coming from the Mariana Trench

It's a call unlike any other we've heard before.

Another breakthrough for fusion reported in South Korea

They might be ushering in a new age of clean energy.

Australian researchers develop harder-than-diamond artificial diamond

Blinging hard!

Mixing Silly Putty with graphene creates incredibly sensitive pressure sensors, scientists find

Nothing silly about these findings. Except the putty.

Light-bending material could bridge quantum and classical physics

We're closer than ever to a Theory of Everything.

Scientists need you to join the Phi-Lambda mission and make quantum computers work

All you have to do is play Decodoku.

Why the Earth's core is two and a half years younger than the crust

Because relativity, that's why.

Obi-Wan Kenobi, the goggles-wearing parrot, teaches us a thing or two about flight physics

The experiments proved current animal flight models are inaccurate.

Scientists take snapshots that show how water conducts electricity

Finally, someone found out how charge is transferred between water molecules.

Water trapped in carbon nanotubes starts freezing at the temperature it should be boiling

The weirdest ice.

Bendy artificial muscle is made of pure nylon, still stronger than you

Even nylon is getting ripped and I still won't hit the gym.

Scientists answer longstanding question: why is the surface of ice wet?

Some simple questions have deceivingly complicated answers.

In 1975, a physicist co-authored a paper with his cat. He did it for a very good reason

F.D.C. Willard, also known as Chester, is a cat who co-authored a high-quality physics paper in 1975

It's official: NASA's "impossible" EM drive has been peer-reviewed and published

Complicated physics, impossible results.

THE fusion energy video you should watch

Fusion could usher in a new age of energy but for most of us, fusion energy is still a big question mark.

Laser stopwatch measures atomic events with trillionth of a billionth of a second accuracy

This is one fast 'camera'.

Cooking nuclear waste into glass and ceramic materials could provide safe, efficient containment

Vitrification is the way to go.

Newly proposed particles might solve five of physics' biggest problems, including dark matter

This may be the holy grail of physics we've all been waiting for.

New record gets us closer to fusion energy

We're one step closer to clean, virtually limitless energy.

Squished-booms: looking at the behavior of underwater explosions

Explosions behave quite differently underwater than what you'd see on the surface.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in physics awarded to trio of topological experts

Bagel physics begets a prize.

Scientists develop a ridiculously cheap acoustic tractor beam

It can manipulate objects in complex patterns for only 10 bucks.

How quantum entanglement changed the nature of physical reality forever

Are we living in only one of infinitely possible universes?

Scientists observe 200-mile long lightning bolt - 10 times longer than we thought possible

Scientists have just observed the longest lightning bolt on record by a long shot.

You're holding that mug wrong -- physicist calculates 'claw-hand posture' is most effective to avoid coffee spills

Meet the claw!

The Universe expands equally in all directions -- and this is bad news for Einstein's equations

Zoom out far enough, and the Universe is a pretty homogenous place.

High-power lasers create 'smoke rings' that travel along the beam with the speed of light

Smoke on the light, fire in the sky.

Physicists think they might have found a dark boson -- a dark matter particle

It could be the key to understanding dark matter.

Milky Way's missing matter traced back to an explosion in its core 6 million years ago

It's not the full picture, but its a lot more than we knew before.

The U.S. plans to build the most advanced fusion reactor ever

Endless clean energy is just too good to pass up.

China launches first quantum satellite making its communications unhackable

Teleporting quantum states might the future of communications, and China is leading the way.

Is this the fifth fundamental force of nature? Physics might never be the same

Physics just got a whole lot more interesting.

California's highways will generate electricity from cars driving over them

California will harvest freeways for electricity.

New measurement of a proton leaves us with more questions than answers

We just can't seem to determine exactly how tiny they are.

Why sonar needs to adapt to new sound highways in the Arctic

Climate change is creating super corridors for sound waves beneath the Arctic.

Scientists discover new 'Frankenstein' form of light, with important consequences for quantum computing

An intriguing electron-light interaction was discovered by scientists.

Dissatisfied owner turns his pub into a Faraday Cage to save the English pub experience

Old fashioned socializing, powered by science.

Too big to orbit: Jupiter is so massive it doesn't actually orbit the Sun

They actually take one another for a spin.

Large Underground Xenon experiment fails to detect dark matter

Invisible dark matter continues to elude scientists

Real life invisibility cloaks are closer than we think

A new advancement in the use of nanocomposites could pave the way for future invisibility cloaks.

The smallest, most affordable atomic force microscope could be a game changer

This AFM is small, easy to use, and costs much less than many high-end AFMs.

Strong 'electric wind' can strip entire planets of oceans and atmosphere

This is some scary stuff.

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