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Photophoresis occurs when gas molecules bounce more forcefully off the warm side of an object than the cool side, creating ...

Digital reconstruction of tiny, 400-million-year-old jawless fish shows how traits for evading predators later gave rise to ...

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We’ve long marveled at how efficiently plants convert sunlight into energy—but no one guessed they were using quantum mechanics to do it. In this episode, we speak with Greg Engel, a pioneering ...

What is carbon-14 dating? The invention of radiocarbon dating elegantly merged chemistry and physics to develop a scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials as old as ...

Overview The United States is facing a real mental health crisis. In the last few years, one possible treatment has gotten a lot of press: psychedelic drugs. But what is actually happening in a person ...

What is a black hole? Black holes are made of matter packed so tightly that gravity overwhelms all other forces. When you pick up a bowling ball, it’s heavy because the matter is densely packed. If ...