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CERN proposes $17 billion particle smasher that would be 3 times bigger than the Large Hadron Collider
CERN's proposed $17 billion particle collider would search for new and unknown physics, but it has drawn fire for its hefty price tag.
Why don't we feel Earth spinning?
Earth moves around the sun at 67,000 mph and makes a full rotation once every 24 hours. So why can't we feel the Earth's rotation?
Scientists accidentally create world's tightest, smallest knot
The tangle is known as a trefoil knot — and it's made up of just 54 atoms.
Mysterious 'sudden death' of quantum vortices in a superconductor stumps scientists
The sudden disappearance of quantum fluctuations inside an atom-thin 2D superconductor has left scientists baffled.
Is it possible to reach absolute zero?
To reach absolute zero, all of the particles within an object have to stop moving.
Millions of invisible 'mirror stars' could exist in the Milky Way, and astronomers know how to find them
An entire universe made of 'dark' particles could exist within our own, and astronomers may know the first place to look: In the mysterious hearts of supposed 'mirror stars'.
1st evidence of nuclear fission in stars hints at elements 'never produced on Earth'
An analysis of 42 ancient stars in the Milky Way reveals the first hints of nuclear fission in the cosmos, hinting at the existence of elements far heavier than anything found naturally on Earth.
Electricity flows like water in 'strange metals,' and physicists don't know why
A weird phenomenon in which electricity flows like water was spotted in a nanowire made of "strange metal" — a bizarre metal phase that has stumped physicists for 40 years.
