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The nuclei of atoms are often portrayed as round in textbooks, but it turns out they're rarely spherical. Since the atomic ...

By controlling individual atoms, researchers have demonstrated a way to turn previously unwanted atomic motion into an ...

A British metal detectorist discovered a gold band with an engraved date-of-death in Norfolk.

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The site's architecture may indicate the Judaean princess was buried there.

A large sunspot has just reappeared on the sun's Earth-facing surface, almost two months after it first emerged. The ...

First theorized in 1938, heat's wave-like flow through superfluids, known as "second sound", has proven difficult to directly observe. Now, a new technique has finally done it, and could be used to ...