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Far from Earth, drifting between the stars, lies a quiet ocean of carbon. Astronomers call it the interstellar medium, a vast ...

The Conversation discusses why frozen turkeys can explode when deep-fried due to rapid steam expansion from ice, causing ...

A flash of light has turned a sheet of atoms into a dance floor. In a feat of precision physics, researchers from Cornell and ...

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in ...

For decades, scientists knew half of the universe’s normal matter — the atoms making up stars, planets, and people — was ...

The Aurora Borealis, which are commonly known as the Northern Lights, are a captivating phenomena.

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