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Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon plasma that filled the universe just after the Big Bang really was a ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

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For those who watch gravitational waves roll in from the universe, GW250114 is a big one. It's the clearest gravitational ...

Environmental pollution and resource depletion have intensified due to rapid industrialization, urban expansion, and increasing consumption of natural ...

In 1996, a 19-year-old in Agoura Hills, California with an eye for design and an ear for music had an idea. Obsessed with art and classically trained as a pianist, Mike Shinoda heard classic rock ...