Physicists exploit a quantum rule to create a new kind of crystal0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 26, 2020
Atoms can arrange themselves in regular configurations thanks to the Pauli exclusion principle
Atoms can arrange themselves in regular configurations thanks to the Pauli exclusion principle
Have you ever seen a sprite? Some say it’s impossible.
If so, China may be in the lead.
When American astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley arrive at the International Space Station this week, they will find an unusual message waiting for them.
Spoiler alert: This spaceship did not explode. But it looked like it did.
With two barren peaks that rise only about 170 feet above sea level, the now extinct Pūhāhonu volcano in the Northwestern Hawaii Islands doesn’t look like much. This is especially true since in the same archipelago, Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa tower over every other volcano at over 13,000 feet above sea level.
The U.S. dollar might be stronger than the Canadian loonie — but it looks like the bald eagle should never underestimate the loon.
Archaeologists have found the bones of about 60 mammoths at an airport under construction just north of Mexico City, near human-built ‘traps’ where more than a dozen mammoths were found last year.
An international team of astronomers has discovered a close-in super-Earth exoplanet in the HD 164922 planetary system.
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius (Sgr) A*.