White dwarfs don't get enough airtime. Sure, these ultradense, dim cores of dead stars are small and hard to see. But they're incredibly exotic, and they're what sunlike stars become. Billions of ...

Researchers have uncovered a method to purify a photon stream that is central to quantum circuitry. University of Iowa ...

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Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.

Saturn will briefly lose its bling. Saturn's rings will appear to have disappeared if you catch a glimpse of the planet through the eyepiece of a telescope on the night of Nov. 23 — but don't worry, ...

This article is part of a package in collaboration with Forbes on time capsules, preserving information and communicating with the future. Read more from the report. Yet according to physics, ...

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During the weekend, the orbits of Earth and Saturn will combine to create an interplanetary optical illusion for anyone with a good telescope and clear skies. By Tom Metcalfe If you head into your ...

This article is part of a package in collaboration with Forbes on time capsules, preserving information and communicating with the future. Read more from the report. Yet according to physics, ...

A collaborative study by researchers from three Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has found that adding tetrapod-shaped nanoparticles to certain synthetic plastics can significantly reduce their ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The next Minecraft update hasn't been revealed yet, as Mounts of Mayhem was only recently released, on 9 December. Usually, the next Minecraft update ...