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Meet the strongest material in the universe: nuclear pasta

It's a mind-perplexing 10 billion times stronger than steel.

Honeybee clusters act as 'super-organisms' to keep everyone safe during bad weather

Intelligent behavior emerging from a group of relatively unintelligent organisms.

She lost the Nobel Prize to her supervisor in 1974 -- now, she got a $3 million physics prize, and donated all of it

The pioneering physicist gave all the prize money away.

Jupiter's magnetic field is extremely bizarre, potentially due to unknown processes in its core

We have no idea why this happens -- but we do have hypotheses.

Physicists devise programmable optical quantum computer

A step closer to quantum computers.

Physicists may have solved 'chicken or the egg' paradox -- both can come first

Of course it had to be weird and confusing.

How to blow the perfect soap bubbles, explained by science

A favorite childhood pastime, now decoded.

At Last, Scientists Spot Higgs Boson Decaying into Fundamental Particles

The Higgs saga continue.

Slow and steady wins the race: fastest animals are actually the slowest throughout their lifetimes

This surprising observation applies to machines as well!

We're living in the Milky Way, version 2.0

Our galaxy is like a phoenix.

Earth's magnetic poles might flip a lot faster than we thought -- and we're woefully unprepared

A pole reversal could fry our electronics.

Scientists have calculated the force of a photon hitting an object

It's a tiny value, but a huge discovery.

Nanoparticle treatment developed to scrub water clean of oil pollution

Nobody likes oil in their water.

Mathematicians solve old mystery about spaghetti breaking

Here's a question you never knew you wanted to answer.

NASA achieves coldest temperature in space, probes the nature of gravity

The most sophisticated fridge in space is already delivering fantastic results.

Scientists manage to keep proteins 'alive' outside cells

The discovery paves the way for advanced materials that have the same functionality as living organisms.

A shattered tectonic plate underpins the Tibetan Plateau -- explaining the area's weird earthquakes

The frayed head of the Indian plate keeps shaking up the whole area.

NASA eavesdropped on the Sun, and they made a video so you can hear it too

With a bit of help from NASA, you can now hear the sun's roar -- and it's glorious.

Scientists devise world's fastest spinning object -- a tiny dumbbell that spins 60 billion times per minute

Researchers have created the fastest man-made rotor in the world, which they believe will help them study quantum mechanics.

Scientists image entire fly brain in ungodly detail

It's a landmark achievement.

New theoretical framework will keep our fusion reactors from going 'boom'

Real reactors lack boom.

Novel material can change under the right light, to be either strong or self-healing

Neat trick.

Hybrid device harvests both ambient mechanical and magnetic energy

Ambient energy is all around us -- physicists are proposing a novel way to tap it.

Color X-Ray imaging is just around the corner -- and we have the photos to prove it

It will make X-rays invaluable in fields it had no place in previously.

Your car's vibrations are making you a lousier driver -- by lulling you to sleep

Naptastic.

China breaks quantum entanglement record at 18 qubits

Imagine reading a library at once rather than one book at a time -- that's what quantum computers can do.

How to stop the annoying sound of a dripping tap with science

Finally an end to this modern Chinese water torture.

Ultrafast laser bursts generate electricity faster than anything we know

A beautiful example of theory and experiment working together to advance science.

New material harvests water from thin air without using energy -- even in dry, arid Arizona

Not a bad trick!

Australian skinks will literally stick their tongues out at predators -- and it works!

:P

The curious case of Jupiter's lightning, solved by the Juno craft

Lightning bolts on Jupiter are both similar and completely different from those on Earth.

Scientists confirm that Higgs boson is coupled to bulky cousin in new physics breakthrough

Yet another victory for the Standard Model.

New study shows that Antarctica is seismically active -- we just haven't listened close enough

If you want to understand something, you need to study it closely.

Wilting away: Van Gogh's legendary sunflowers are turning brown

After 150 years of blossoming, the flowers are slowly turning brown.

Computer simulation predicts new exotic particle composed of two baryons

This would make it only the second such particle besides heavy hydrogen.

Pressure in protons' cores is over ten times greater that that in neutron stars

More pressure than you during finals.

How different stages of sleep work together for creative problem solving

Even the toughest problems cand find a solution in our sleep.

Mindbending 'Spooky Action at a Distance' experiment involving 100,000 gamers proves Einstein wrong

Quantum mechanics -- how does it work?!

A new study reveals why ice gets so slippery -- and it wasn't what we expected

The next time you slip on a lick of ice, at least you'll know the physics behind it!

Scientists analyze tornadoes in infrasound

Most tornado alarms are false, but this technology could change all that.

Marine creatures hear us when we scuba dive, kayak, and even swim

Shh, swim lightly -- the animals can hear you.

Stephen Hawking's final paper was just published -- and it's mindblowing

Before he died, the famous physicist completed his final theory of the cosmos.

No evidence to say that Earth's magnetic pole is reversing, new study concludes

Magnetic poles will likely remain in place for the foreseeable future.

Scientists demonstrate quantum entanglement with objects big enough to see

'Spooky action at a distance' is approaching the human scale.

Physical, encryption-like method could help the world finally get rid of nukes

"You can hack electronics, but you can't hack physics," says lead author Areg Danagoulian.

Whale skulls act like resonance chambers to help them hear underwater

First whole-body CT scan of a minke whale yields insights on whale communication

Sea turtles use Earth's magnetic field like a GPS to find their birthplace

The loggerheads can find their original nesting grounds within 40 to 50 miles, despite being away for decades or traveling thousands of miles.

Scientists measure physical constant in unprecedented detail, which may reveal exotic physics

In doing so, they've come up with evidence that might tell us what dark particles and forces might or might not lurk beyond the Standard Model. 

Scientists uncover secret color of 200-million-year-old butterfly wings

Butterfly iridescence is really, really old.

Scientists devise new, cheaper way to manufacture graphene

A new step forward that might make graphene mainstream.

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