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A simulation created to understand a Kepler mission discovery of wandering ice giants suggests that they could be remnants of bodies like Neptune that came too close to their parent stars
New calculations extend Einstein's general theory of relativity into the universe's first few moments
What would scientists learn if they could run studies that lasted for hundreds or thousands of years—or more?
Honeycomb lattice
The grand scheme, a stepping-stone to string theory, is still high on physicists' wish lists. But if no solid evidence surfaces soon, it could begin to have a serious PR problem
If renewable energy is going to take off, we need good ways of storing it for the times when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing
Energy storage is the key to deploying wind and solar energy on a vast scale, but exactly how much of it will be required remains to be seen
Animals' magnetic sense is real. Scientists are zeroing in on how it works
The long-sought Higgs boson is tied to the leading theory of how quarks, electrons and other particles get their mass
Rumors are flying about a December 13 update on the search for the long-sought Higgs boson at Europe's Large Hadron Collider
An exhibition traces the reconstruction of a long-missing collection of writings by Archimedes
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