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Research team develops more efficient photocathodes

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Tiny robot cheetah breaks speed record

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Magnetic reconnection breakthrough could help predict space weather

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Laboratory experiments replicate volatile plasma at the center of galaxy clusters

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Shape of melting ice depends on water temperature

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Scientists discover neutron star mergers a primary source of cosmic heavy metals

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Scientists introduce theoretical method to produce light in a vacuum

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Effect of ‘eddy killing’ in oceans is no longer a matter of guesswork

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Protecting Earth from space storms

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NSF Funds Ten New PREM Seed Grants

Scientists developing inhalable COVID-19 vaccine spray

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Astrophysicists detect first black hole-neutron star mergers

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'Surfing' particles: Physicists solve a mystery surrounding the aurora borealis

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Dark matter detection

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Machine learning accelerates cosmological simulations

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First results from Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment strengthen evidence of new physics

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Research shows how tissue's microscopic geometry affects spread of cancer

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RNA molecules are masters of their own destinies

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Could we harness energy from black holes?

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Social bacteria build shelters using the physics of fingerprints

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Model could improve design of vaccines, immunotherapies

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NSF selects Sean Jones to head Mathematical and Physical Sciences directorate

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Human/mechanical powered plasma: Researchers help create the future

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A 'bang' in LIGO and Virgo detectors signals most massive gravitational wave source yet

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Plasma guides maintain focus of lasers

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New view of nature's oldest light adds fresh twist to debate over universe's age

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System's ability to boost laser precision at room temperature increases its usability

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LIGO-Virgo Finds Mystery Object in "Mass Gap"

Scientists develop numerical capability of laser-driven X-ray imaging

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LIGO-Virgo finds mystery object in gap between neutron stars and black holes

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