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What Are Meteor Showers and What Causes Them?
Meteor showers happen when Earth passes through streams of small particles left along the orbits of comets or, in some cases, asteroid-like bodies. The particles enter t…
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What Is a Solar Flare?
A solar flare is a rapid release of magnetic energy in the Sun's atmosphere. Flares can brighten dramatically in X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation and can acceler…
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What Are the Northern Lights and Why Do Auroras Happen?
Auroras occur when energetic charged particles are guided by Earth's magnetic field into the upper atmosphere, where collisions with oxygen and nitrogen produce light. T…
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What Is the Large Hadron Collider?
The Large Hadron Collider is CERN’s 27-kilometer particle accelerator that circulates beams of protons or heavy ions in opposite directions and collides them so experime…
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What Is the Higgs Boson?
The Higgs boson is the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, a field that fills space and is central to how elementary particles acquire mass in the Standard Model.
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What Is the Standard Model of Particle Physics?
The Standard Model is the quantum theory that describes known elementary particles and the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions among them, but it does not incl…
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What Is Particle Physics?
Particle physics studies the fundamental constituents of matter and radiation, the forces that act between them, and the high-energy processes that reveal how nature wor…
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What Is Wave-Particle Duality?
Wave-particle duality describes how quantum objects such as photons and electrons can produce wave-like interference in some experiments while being detected as discrete…
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What Is Quantum Entanglement?
Quantum entanglement is a relationship between quantum systems in which their joint state cannot be described as independent states for each part, producing correlations…
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What Is Quantum Physics?
Quantum physics describes matter and energy at atomic and subatomic scales, where probabilities, quantization, superposition, and wave behavior become essential.
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What Are Quarks?
Quarks are elementary particles that carry electric and color charge. They bind through the strong interaction to form hadrons such as protons and neutrons.
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What Are Neutrinos?
Neutrinos are electrically neutral elementary particles with extremely small masses that interact through the weak force and gravity.
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The sound of a Martian dust devil 'swallowing' a NASA robot
The first recording of a dust storm on the surface of Mars revealed that the dust tornado that 'swallowed' the Perseverance robot in September 2021 was 119 m high.
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For the first time, scientists have captured images of quantum entanglement in real time.
A collaboration between scientists from the University of Ottawa and Sapienza University has captured for the first time the dance of two quantumly entangled photons in…
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'The God Particle': Uncovering the Origin of Matter and Changing the Future of Physics!
Physics is the science that explores the most fundamental laws and structures of nature, and attempts to describe and explain the universe we live in using mathematical…