Dark matter is one of the most mysterious components of the universe. Yet it makes up 23 percent of the mass of the universe...
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Galaxy Clusters and the Life and Death of the Universe
The distribution of galaxies in the universe is patchy. Galaxies are bound together in clusters made of stars, hot gas and invisible dark matter. ...
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Caught on Camera: The Secret Lives of Life's Molecules
For decades, scientists have been working to understand the building blocks of life by studying the structures of proteins and other large biological molecules. ...
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Deep Secrets of the Neutrino: Physics Underground
Among the many beautiful, unexpected and sometimes revolutionary discoveries to emerge from subatomic physics, probably none is more bizarre than an elementary particle known...
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Cosmic Accelerators: Engines of the Extreme Universe
The universe is home to numerous exotic and beautiful phenomena, some of which can generate almost inconceivable amounts of energy. While the night sky...
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Ultimate Atomic Bling: Nanotechnology of Diamonds
Diamonds exist in all sizes, from the Hope Diamond to minuscule crystals only a few atoms across. The smallest of these diamonds are created...
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Leading the Charge: Exotic New Materials for Future Devices
How will we improve computer technology to create chips that are smaller, faster, and more efficient? For leaps in performance, we need to create...
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Smashing Protons: First Physics at the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider, at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, is the largest scientific instrument ever built. For nearly a year now, we have been...
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Archaeopteryx: Bringing the Dino-Bird to Life
Some 150 million years ago, a strange creature died in a tropical lagoon that today is located in Bavaria, Germany. In 1861, a single...
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Life Redefined: Microbes Built with Arsenic
UPDATE - In the time following this lecture, aspects of the research featured here have been disproven or come into question. See this article...
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Particle Accelerator on a Chip
Accelerators are huge, expensive tubes sometimes miles long that produce high energies for smashing protons or making intense X-ray light. 21st-century technology has taken...
