A group of students are carrying out an experiment in space to settle once and for all the validity of the long-held theory that sound cannot be heard in a vacuum. The team from the Cambridge ...

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AS he set about cleaning up a few more votes in this week's election, Gerry Adams got the vacuum out. Nothing new there. AS he set about cleaning up a few more votes in this week's election, Gerry ...

Dark energy and I came of age together. In 1998, two competing groups of astronomers discovered that the expansion of the universe was accelerating; the same year, I graduated from college with a ...

The quantum realm holds terrifying implications, insinuating so much uncertainty into our mundane, ordered view of reality. With that in mind, have you considered that our entire universe may actually ...

Scientists have demonstrated after decades of theorising how light interacts with vacuum, recreating a bizarre phenomenon predicted by quantum physics. Classical physics predicts that light beams pass ...

Dyson sucks and blows, and we mean that in the nicest way possible. Now, it’s getting ready to wipe with the latest addition to its home cleaning product line: The DC56 Dyson Hard ($330). The ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows one of the galaxies in the survey to refine the measurement for how fast the universe expands with time, called the Hubble constant. NASA, ESA and A. Riess ...

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