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What’s the difference between nuclear fission and fusion
Despite having some things common, the two can be considered polar opposites.
We’re made of stardust, but heavier elements are made of black-hole-and-neutron-star dust
It's not a contest uranium, jeez.
New measurement of a proton leaves us with more questions than answers
We just can't seem to determine exactly how tiny they are.
How Albert Einstein broke the Periodic Table
In a study published in the January 19, 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), scientists ...
IBM develops smallest storage device: 12 atoms for a single bit!
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CERN is back in business with the first collisions
The researchers and engineers operating the Large Hadron Collider have smashed together for the first time protons, in what is ...
First Universal Two-Qubit quantum processor created
Physicists from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) have demonstrated what they claim to be the first universal programmable ...
Meet the world’s most powerful X-Ray laser
The first experiments with this laser (Linac Coherent Light Source) have been given the green light at the Department of ...
Meet the magnetic superatoms
Virginia Commonwealth University managed to discover what they have called a 'magnetic superatom', a stable cluster of atoms that can ...
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