A flash of light hits a simple iron crystal. In the space of a trillionth of a second, its magnetic behavior shifts, as if ...

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Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By ...

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Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," obeys gravity on vast cosmological scales. This could help to dismiss the possibility of a fifth fundamental force ...

Physicists have discovered how to make electrons “freeze” and “melt” into bizarre quantum patterns, forming a new kind of matter where solid and liquid coexist. Electricity drives nearly every aspect ...

For the first time, researchers have made niobium sulfide metallic nanotubes with stable, predictable properties, a ...

Researchers create stable niobium sulfide metallic nanotubes using table salt, paving the way for faster electronics.

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A Matter of Fact: The First Amendment and a free press in America Explore the First Amendment, how it has shaped American press freedom and its role in U.S. democracy, and how to become a better news ...