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A 3d-printed model enters the water

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Physicists calculate highest dives most humans can safely withstand

By using 3D-printed models and dropping them into a tank, researchers have found the maximum heights people can dive from before they will encounter forces that can cause injury

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Lightning bolts over the Las Vegas skyline

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Firing a laser into the sky can redirect lightning’s path

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Laser beams crossing in different directions from several different sources

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New kind of laser uses tiny particle clumps to generate light

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This image may not be used in educational posters Double-slit experiment Computer illustration showing a plane wave (bottom right) passing through a gap in a screen, and the resultant circular wave then passing through a screen with two gaps. The gaps act as new wave sources and the wavefronts bend to create two sets of circular waves radiating outwards. These two new waves create an interference pattern as they interact. At the point where a wave peak from one hits a wave peak from another, or a trough hits a trough, they reinforce each other; their magnitudes are summed. This is known as constructive interference. Where a trough hits a peak or vice versa and they cancel each other out. This is known as destructive interference.

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Can particles really be in two places at the same time?

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An image of the top PMT array, part of the Lux-Zeplin Lab in the Sanford Underground Research Facility.

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World's most sensitive dark matter detector tested for the first time

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2F8Y7GF Spacetime Scifi Digital Arts concept, Twist clock time distortion warp on space bended curved as hole represent Space and Times of Einstein Theory

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What does it mean when we say that space-time is expanding?

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Illustration of a clock in a spiral

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Time loops may not be forbidden by physics after all

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DNA turbine

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Tiny nanoturbine is an autonomous machine smaller than most bacteria

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Ten years after the Higgs discovery, what now for particle physics?

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Ten years after the Higgs discovery, what now for particle physics?

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Antibubbles are a blob of liquid with a layer of air surrounding them

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Antibubbles have been made to last a record-breaking 13 hours

Shaking antibubbles – droplets of liquid encased in a thin layer of air – prevents them from popping for several hours. These could be used in chemical engineering in the future

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Elusive exotic matter called a tetraneutron possibly seen in the lab

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Physicists work out exactly when a fruit display will fall down

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3D rabbit 'hologram' created by levitating screen using sound waves

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Watch this strange fluid act like a solid and liquid at the same time

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