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JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress often comes from data that don’t fit our current understanding. This idea, ...

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A supersolid is a paradoxical state of matter—it is rigid like a crystal but flows without friction like a superfluid. This ...

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In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

New simulations suggest dark matter could explain the mysterious gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center. The findings show that the galaxy’s early mergers may have shaped dark matter in a way that ...

A supersolid is a paradoxical state of matter—it is rigid like a crystal but flows without friction like a superfluid. This exotic form of quantum ...

Dr. Tomer Shenar, Guy Shtainer, Roey Ovadia & Zehava Katabi. A study led by Dr. Tomer Shenar from TAU's School of ...

Where does gold really come from? It turns out that the glittering metal on Earth has its roots in violent cosmic events — ...