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With round lenses set in super-thick frames, these new eyeglasses look like they belong on a cartoon character. But what…
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With round lenses set in super-thick frames, these new eyeglasses look like they belong on a cartoon character. But what…
A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), the first of which was shown experimentally 22 years ago, isn’t your garden variety state of…
In his 1944 book What is Life?, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger argued that organisms stay alive precisely by staving off…
We learn it from a young age: solids hold their shapes; liquids flow. Physical states of matter are mutually exclusive.…
In central California’s Yosemite National Park, it doesn’t take much to set the forest on fire. A discarded cigarette.…
Some problems have easy solutions. If we feel sweaty, we’ll head for the shade. If our soup’s too hot,…
A person with a failing vital organ usually has only one treatment option: get a new one. But right now,…
Bump a glass and any water inside might slop over the side. Splash in the bathtub and waves slosh.…
To humans, falling rain usually amounts to little more than a minor inconvenience. After all, we are big and raindrops…
If aliens ever sent us a message, scientists hope to pick it up in a remote part of northern…