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How Does a Nuclear Reactor Work?
A nuclear reactor controls a self-sustaining fission chain reaction so that heat can be removed safely and used for a practical purpose such as generating electricity, p…
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How Does a Fusion Reactor Work?
A fusion reactor aims to create a hot plasma in which light nuclei fuse, confine or compress that plasma long enough to release useful energy, then capture the energy in…
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Neutron stars shake understanding of black holes
A newly observed neutron star merger has cast doubt on the previously known mechanism of black hole formation.
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The element of the sun god is giving scientists a headache
Helium is a simple element on the periodic table, named after the sun god. Yet modern theory and experiments on it have produced puzzlingly different results.
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What secrets are hidden behind the mysterious signal coming from the direction of the constellation Scutum!
Whether there are aliens in the universe is an ancient and eternal question.
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The strongest magnetic field in the universe may be right here on Earth.
This magnetic field is 10,000 times stronger than the strongest neutron star we know of, and 10 million million times stronger than a typical refrigerator magnet can pro…
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NASA discovers two stars colliding so violently that they created gold
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected two neutron stars colliding so violently that they may be creating gold in space.
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The 'deadly' truth about strange radio signals transmitted to Earth
A group of Chinese astrophysicists have come up with a scenario
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Scientists discover new type of oxygen with strange properties
Scientists in Japan have created two new forms of oxygen that have unusual properties compared to popular theories about atomic structure.
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Record discovery: 3 alien objects about to swallow each other
5,000 light years from Earth, three objects are stuck together and about to turn into a
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Encountering 'devil particles', rare treasures appearing in the Solar System?
German-Japanese scientists have proposed one
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Capturing gravitational waves from unknown objects
Intense space-time ripples from the collision between a neutron star and a mysterious object have puzzled scientists.
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Why can a spoonful of matter in a neutron star weigh up to 100 million tons?
The mass per cubic centimeter can amount to more than 100 million tons, and a tablespoon of matter weighs as much as a mountain on Earth.
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Discovered the fastest rotating planet in the universe, takes only 0.0014 seconds to make one revolution!
PSR J1748−2446ad is about 18,000 light-years from Earth, currently the fastest rotating object in the known universe.
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Where does the gold in the Solar System come from? Where is the most gold in the Solar System?
Where is the most gold in the Solar System? To answer this question, we first need to find out where the gold in our Solar System comes from.