A better way to secure digital payments.
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Physics
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
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The story behind the scare that an atomic bomb would ignite the atmosphere into a fireball.
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Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe.
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Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.
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By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons.
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For cyclists, it’s a drag when you don’t shave your legs.
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Physicist Alan Lightman on evolution and atheism, creativity and spirituality.
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A precise new method of measuring gravitational waves is re-opening the book on general relativity.
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A new analysis argues that ubiquitous eruptions in the sun’s corona explain the vast flow of charged particles seen streaming out through the solar system.
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