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A groundbreaking discovery reveals that ice can generate electricity when bent, a phenomenon called flexoelectricity, which ...

The speed of light, c, is not just a very large number. In modern physics it is a structural constant: the conversion factor ...

Tehachapi's wind turbines — seen here with a double rainbow — help make Kern County California's leading producer of ...

If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the universe: it's just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number ...

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The thought of bottling up a little star sounds straight out of a Walt Whitman poem, but it's actually one of the biggest ...

The researchers found that only Arctic diatoms can move through actual ice. Temperate diatoms (species from warmer waters) ...

The oscilloscopes of the new 7-series DPO from Tektronix are designed for maximum signal integrity. A newly developed signal ...

The quantum world is already full of surprises, but a new discovery has added an entire wing to what scientists call the ...