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A Mirror Image of Our Universe May Have Existed Before the Big Bang
Like a mountain looming over a calm lake, it seems the universe may once have had a perfect mirror image.…
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Did ‘The Big Bang Theory’ Get the Science Right? A Lesson in Supersymmetry and Economy Class
They say that life imitates art, but the arrow goes both ways. Far more often, art imitates life. That’s what happened…
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In 10 Years, the Large Hadron Collider Was a Smash with More Discoveries to Come
Back in 2008, a beam of protons first zipped around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle…
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Physicists Want to Build an Even More Powerful Atom Smasher at CERN
The universe is filled with particles we don’t know about that are governed by rules we don’t yet understand. But…
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Check Out These Amazing Super-Detailed Images of Fruit Fly Brains
The images aren’t quite photos, but they were made by capturing visible light. To create them, the researchers combined two…
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Net Neutrality – Explained In Simple Terms
Net Neutrality (Network Neutrality) is the principle that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should treat all data on the Internet equally. Who are the Internet Service…
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What are the uses of Rare Earth Metals (REMs) in Defense?
Usage of Rare Earth Elements (REE) in Emerging technologies · They are being used in anything and everything that comes out…
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Rare Earth Elements (REE): Why are they strategically important?
Rare Earth Elements (REE) are metals having many similar properties. The global demand for rare earth elements has increased significantly…
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FRP Composite Material And Its Applications
Fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) (also known as fibre-reinforced polymer) is a composite material made of a polymer matrix reinforced with fibres. Composites…
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Gravitational Waves: Einstein Was Right!
Einstein was right! Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves a century ago. Now, scientists confirmed the detection of gravitational…
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Higgs Boson : The God Particle
The standard model of particle physics hypothesized about Higgs Boson in 1964. The discovery of Higgs particle was announced at CERN…
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Dark Matter vs Anti Matter vs Negative Matter
Matter is anything that has mass and takes space. But apart from the ‘normal’ matter, there are different other forms…
