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MIT scientists capture first images of quantum interactions
MIT physicists have taken the first-ever direct images of individual atoms interacting freely in space. Their findings, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, reveal hidden quantum ...
For the First Time, Scientists Caught Atoms Freely Interacting in Space—and It Was Stunning
Until now, atoms have never been imaged interacting freely in space, but a new technique known as non-resolved microscopy has ...
MIT Snaps Stunning First Photos of Atoms Interacting in Open Space
MIT scientists have snapped the first-ever images of individual atoms interacting freely in space, making visible the elusive ...
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NASA diagnoses fracture in a 'huge cosmic bone' using X-ray observatory
Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images ...
I Never Knew the Universe Was Hiding So Much—Until These 3 Discoveries Blew My Mind
Jackie explains that a laser inside the tubes is split, bounces off mirrors, and goes straight back to sensors at the center ...
Would a musical triangle of any other shape sound as sweet?
The triangle is a small instrument made of a metal rod bent into a triangle shape that is open at one corner. While small, ...
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MIT captures first image of free-range atoms, can help visualize quantum phenomena
The images, which show interactions between free-range particles that had only been theorized until now, will reportedly ...
The Phony Physics of Star Wars Are a Blast
One of the big ideas in physics is that forces change the motion of an object. If you apply a constant, continuous force to ...
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Spinning star may have cracked a giant galactic “bone”
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and powerful radio telescopes have likely solved a cosmic mystery—what ...
First image from the world’s largest solar telescope captures the sun in unheard-of detail
A newly released image of the sun captured by the world's largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in ...
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Giant Structure in Deep Space Challenges Our Understanding of The Universe
"Cosmologists calculate the current theoretical size limit of structures to be 1.2 billion light-years, yet both of these ...
NASA’s asteroid sample mission gave scientists around the world the rare opportunity to study an artificial meteor
NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...