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The universe is full of an unending number of different things, from plants and animals to gas giants and supernovae. But where did all of t...

Data centers are all the rage right now thanks to AI, and SIlicon Valley is looking to push the concept of data centers to the extreme. Acro...

In quantum physics, a wave function is a mathematical way to describe everything in the universe. But since quantum physics emerged, physici...

A group of scientists suggests that the origin of life for complex organisms on Earth might have occurred not once, but twice. This challen...

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Complex numbers are created when you add a real number and an imaginary number (like “i”). These numbers are used throughout math and physic...

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A 15-year-old Belgian boy just finished his PhD in quantum physics, publishing a thesis focused on Bose-Einstein condensates. First, let’s t...

According to new data analysis, our solar system is traveling through the universe roughly 3 times faster than our current models predict it...

Small modular nuclear reactors are supposed to fix the problem of conventional nuclear reactors being too expensive and time-consuming to bu...

AI is changing the world – how we work, how we write, and how we consume media. But it doesn’t seem like many people are interested in how A...

In today's video I want to talk about why I am optimistic about the future and why I think that some major technological breakthroughs i...

A physicist from Japan claims that he has found the first direct evidence for dark matter in very highly energetic gamma-ray emissions from...

Scientists just found a massive 7,000 kilometer-long gravitational anomaly off the coast of Africa in data from a NASA satellite. The anomal...

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