It is comforting to imagine that trained in the universe on both space- and earth-based telescopes, we could find asteroids of any dangerous size a mile away on our way, which would have plenty of time to color them white or explode them. . But every asteroid we see coming …
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When the signs of life are discovered in the universe, we find very specific things based on what we know: Earth-like planets, in orbit around stars, and at distances that allow liquid surface water. But, imaginatively, there may be other forms of life that seem like nothing we have never …
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The existence of time crystals – a particularly fascinating state of matter – was confirmed only a few short years ago, but physicists have already made a pretty big breakthrough: they have induced an interaction and observed between two time crystals. In a superfluid helium-3, crystals exchange quasi-particles twice without …
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If you see a face in a cloud, in the slots of a power point, or on the side of a house, there is a term for: face pareidolia. This strange perception phenomenon makes lifeless, busy objects appear to have facial features – the basic shapes of two eyes and …
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The world could be training for an ‘information disaster’, as the pace of digital bit production continues to accelerate without signs of stopping, new research suggests. In a new study – one stuck in the more abstract aspects of theoretical physics, it must be said – researcher Melvin Vopson of …
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