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  Trillionth of a Second Shutter Speed Camera Captures Chaos in Action

  ScienceAlert - David Nield

  To take a picture, the best digital cameras on the market open their shutter for around around one four-thousandths of a second. To snapshot atomic …

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  Physicists Have Created The World's Most Fiendishly Difficult Maze

  ScienceAlert - Michelle Starr

  Daedalus could have learned a thing or two from a team of physicists in the UK and Switzerland. Taking principles from fractal geometry and the …

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  2 days ago

  Time Crystals Could Unlock a Radical New Future For Quantum Computers

  ScienceAlert - Mike McRae

  The path to quantum supremacy is complicated by a fairy tale challenge – how do you carry a cloud without changing its shape? The potential solution …

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  A Diet of Dark Matter Could Be Making Some Stars Effectively Immortal

  ScienceAlert - Clare Watson

  In our rapidly expanding Universe, the lives of stars follow well-worn tracks, fusing hydrogen and then helium before swelling in size until they …

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  Can Black Holes Be Created From Pure Light? New Paper Challenges Theory.

  ScienceAlert - Mike McRae

  Squeeze enough stuff into one spot, space-time itself will pucker up in a sweet cosmic kiss known as a black hole. As far as Einstein's sums are …

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  Physicists Accidentally Found a New Way to Represent Pi

  ScienceAlert - Clare Watson

  Our favorite mathematical constant, pi (π), describing the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter, has taken on new meaning. The new …