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Physicists Create The Smallest Cat Video Ever Made Of Just 2,024 AtomsA regular cat and a cat design made of just atoms next to each other.Physicists Create The Smallest Cat Video Ever Made Of Just 2,024 AtomsA regular cat and a cat design made of just atoms next to each other.

Physicists Create The Smallest Cat Video Ever Made Of Just 2,024 Atoms

Watch atoms being moved into a quantum cat in breakthrough particle manipulation.

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Next Month Is Your Last Chance To See Titan’s Shadow Transit Saturn For 15 YearsThe Moon titan is seen in front of the planet and the rings are seen edge on, so they appear very thin.

Next Month Is Your Last Chance To See Titan’s Shadow Transit Saturn For 15 Years

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Enceladus Creates An Unlikely Rainbow Across One of Saturn’s Rings, Puzzling AstronomersAn image of the south pole of enceladus in shadow ith a geyser on the rim. Overalyed, a more distant image of the south pole with a wider view of the ice emission. A rainbow line is visible above the moon, from one side of the image to the next.

Enceladus Creates An Unlikely Rainbow Across One of Saturn’s Rings, Puzzling Astronomers

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Mercury Is Shrinking – And Its Surface May Have Just Revealed By How MuchMercury seen in true color (left) and in an exaggerated color view to highlight its features.

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Mercury Is Shrinking – And Its Surface May Have Just Revealed By How MuchMercury seen in true color (left) and in an exaggerated color view to highlight its features.
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Mercury Is Shrinking – And Its Surface May Have Just Revealed By How Much

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Everyday Magnets Could Be The Surprising Key To Producing Oxygen In Spaceastronaut David A. Wolf, STS-112 mission specialist, participates in the mission's first session of extravehicular activity. He's photographed floating above the Earth.

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Everyday Magnets Could Be The Surprising Key To Producing Oxygen In Spaceastronaut David A. Wolf, STS-112 mission specialist, participates in the mission's first session of extravehicular activity. He's photographed floating above the Earth.
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Everyday Magnets Could Be The Surprising Key To Producing Oxygen In Space

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Earendel: The Most Distant Star Ever Seen Might Not Be What We ThoughtEarendel seen in the edge of this photo, top center in the smeared red line.

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Earendel: The Most Distant Star Ever Seen Might Not Be What We ThoughtEarendel seen in the edge of this photo, top center in the smeared red line.
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How An Eclipse And One Of The World’s Most Dangerous Volcanoes Changed Chemistry For GoodA rainbow filled with dark lines is in the background. That's the solar spectrum. In front there is a sketch of the eclipse and the silhoutte of mount vesuvius.

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How An Eclipse And One Of The World’s Most Dangerous Volcanoes Changed Chemistry For GoodA rainbow filled with dark lines is in the background. That's the solar spectrum. In front there is a sketch of the eclipse and the silhoutte of mount vesuvius.
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How An Eclipse And One Of The World’s Most Dangerous Volcanoes Changed Chemistry For Good

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The Largest Moon In The Solar System Could Be A Dark Matter DetectorJupiter's largest moon Ganymede, imaged by Juno in 2021.

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The Largest Moon In The Solar System Could Be A Dark Matter DetectorJupiter's largest moon Ganymede, imaged by Juno in 2021.
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The Largest Moon In The Solar System Could Be A Dark Matter Detector

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Unique White Dwarf Heavier Than The Sun Is Hiding A Merger In Its Pastartist impression of a white dwarf stealing material from a red giant in the foreground.

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Unique White Dwarf Heavier Than The Sun Is Hiding A Merger In Its Pastartist impression of a white dwarf stealing material from a red giant in the foreground.
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Unique White Dwarf Heavier Than The Sun Is Hiding A Merger In Its Past

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Tennis Player Gets Public Confused With Autograph About The Fermi Paradox3d rendering of pink UFO carrying tennis ball, flying against amber background with tennis racket in foregroun

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Tennis Player Gets Public Confused With Autograph About The Fermi Paradox3d rendering of pink UFO carrying tennis ball, flying against amber background with tennis racket in foregroun
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Tennis Player Gets Public Confused With Autograph About The Fermi Paradox

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The Pleiades Will Dance With The Moon This WeekendA telescope image of the Pleiades

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The Pleiades Will Dance With The Moon This WeekendA telescope image of the Pleiades
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The Pleiades Will Dance With The Moon This Weekend

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Ann Hodges: The Only Confirmed Person To Be Hit By A Meteorite And LiveA photo showing three meteorites falling through the sky. They appear as three streaks of burning light set against a blue background. The largest meteorite is the closest, and the two behind it are progressively smaller.

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Ann Hodges: The Only Confirmed Person To Be Hit By A Meteorite And LiveA photo showing three meteorites falling through the sky. They appear as three streaks of burning light set against a blue background. The largest meteorite is the closest, and the two behind it are progressively smaller.
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Ann Hodges: The Only Confirmed Person To Be Hit By A Meteorite And Live

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Trump's Executive Order To Slash Environmental Regulations For Space Launches: We Look At The Risks And RealitiesTrump looking confused at something slightly off camera.

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Trump's Executive Order To Slash Environmental Regulations For Space Launches: We Look At The Risks And RealitiesTrump looking confused at something slightly off camera.
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Trump's Executive Order To Slash Environmental Regulations For Space Launches: We Look At The Risks And Realities

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Does Jupiter Have A Solid Core, And If So, How Big Is It?Jupiter in Color, by Cassini

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Does Jupiter Have A Solid Core, And If So, How Big Is It?Jupiter in Color, by Cassini
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Does Jupiter Have A Solid Core, And If So, How Big Is It?

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A New View Of The "Cosmic Grapes" Is Challenging Our Theories Of How Galaxies Formthe artist impression show a spiral galaxy with sevel large bright clumps located across the arms

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A New View Of The "Cosmic Grapes" Is Challenging Our Theories Of How Galaxies Formthe artist impression show a spiral galaxy with sevel large bright clumps located across the arms
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A New View Of The "Cosmic Grapes" Is Challenging Our Theories Of How Galaxies Form

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Death Valley's "Racing Rocks" Inspire Experiment To Make Ice Move On Its OwnSailing stones in Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, California

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Death Valley's "Racing Rocks" Inspire Experiment To Make Ice Move On Its OwnSailing stones in Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, California
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Death Valley's "Racing Rocks" Inspire Experiment To Make Ice Move On Its Own

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The Only Person To Ever Be Killed By A Falling Meteorite Was Extremely UnluckyMeteors entering our atmosphere (3D illustration).
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The Only Person To Ever Be Killed By A Falling Meteorite Was Extremely Unlucky

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What Were The "Fireflies" NASA Astronaut John Glenn Saw As He Orbited The Earth?NASA astronaut John Glenn on board Mercury.
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What Were The "Fireflies" NASA Astronaut John Glenn Saw As He Orbited The Earth?

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Accidentally Shrunk Your Clothes In The Laundry? There Is A Way To Unshrink Themwoman wearing glasses holding up a polo shirt that has shrunk in the wash
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Accidentally Shrunk Your Clothes In The Laundry? There Is A Way To Unshrink Them

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Take A Glimpse Into The Universe Like Never BeforeMany galaxies in the universe
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Take A Glimpse Into The Universe Like Never Before

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How Many Times Could Earth Fit Inside The Sun?Earth and Sun
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How Many Times Could Earth Fit Inside The Sun?

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Watch As A Solar Storm Messes Up NASA Mars Rover's CameraCharged Particles Caused by Solar Storm
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Watch As A Solar Storm Messes Up NASA Mars Rover's Camera

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Meet The Bille, A Self-Righting Tetrahedron That Nobody Was Sure Could ExistThe Bille, a tetrahedron constructed out of a thin skeleton with one small section filled in solid

Meet The Bille, A Self-Righting Tetrahedron That Nobody Was Sure Could Exist

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What Is Kakeya's Needle Problem, And Why Do We Want To Solve It?close-up of series of needles' eyes

What Is Kakeya's Needle Problem, And Why Do We Want To Solve It?

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New Quantum Radar Can Be Made As Small As A Die Thanks To Giant Atomsabstract digital art showing concentric circles at the end of a tunnel of tiny tiles with a bright point of light at the end.

New Quantum Radar Can Be Made As Small As A Die Thanks To Giant Atoms

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Quantum "Schrödinger's Cat" Survives For Mind-Blowing 23 Minutes In Record-Breaking ExperimentA black cat hiding behind a curtain, illustrating the concept of quantum physics and schrodinger's cat.

Quantum "Schrödinger's Cat" Survives For Mind-Blowing 23 Minutes In Record-Breaking Experiment

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"Superhard" Hexagonal Diamonds Found In Meteorites Produced In Bulk For The First Timediagonal row of cut diamonds of different sizes, with a massive one first, on a pale background

"Superhard" Hexagonal Diamonds Found In Meteorites Produced In Bulk For The First Time

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Anatoli Bugorski: The Man Who Put His Head In A Particle Accelerator And Survivedlarge hadron collider at CERN in Geneva

Anatoli Bugorski: The Man Who Put His Head In A Particle Accelerator And Survived

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For 100 Years, A Stable 20-Electron Ferrocene Molecule Was Thought "Improbable" – Until NowThe iron and nitrogen atoms in the 20-electron version of ferrocene.

For 100 Years, A Stable 20-Electron Ferrocene Molecule Was Thought "Improbable" – Until Now

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Marathon Fusion Claims They Have A Method For Transmuting Mercury Into GoldA golden liquid.

Marathon Fusion Claims They Have A Method For Transmuting Mercury Into Gold

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Peering Down Through A Black Hole's Cosmic Jet Got Earth Hit By Record-Breaking Neutrinosa schematic view of a supermasive black hole jet aligned with a radio antenna. And a radio map of the jet that looks of concentric ring like structures.

Peering Down Through A Black Hole's Cosmic Jet Got Earth Hit By Record-Breaking Neutrinos

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The Water In Comet Pons-Brooks Matches The Oceans – Did Comets Help Make Earth Habitable?Artist impression fo comets hitting a primordial earth. Some molecules are made gigantic to be visible showing that there are the right components.

The Water In Comet Pons-Brooks Matches The Oceans – Did Comets Help Make Earth Habitable?

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