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Condensation is everywhere — in power plants, air conditioners, water-harvesting systems, and the fog on your bathroom mirror. Now scientists have developed an ultrathin coating that could dramatically improve how efficiently heat moves during condensation, by transforming tiny polymer structures…
A magnetar — a neutron star with the most extreme magnetic field known in the universe — has apparently done what no laboratory could: revealed signs of a quantum effect that Werner Heisenberg predicted nearly 90 years ago. Its light…
Mars may be hiding a split personality. New research suggests the Red Planet’s southern interior is hundreds of degrees hotter than its northern half — and may even be partially molten deep below the surface. The finding could rewrite what…
Dark matter hunters may have finally seen something worth losing sleep over. The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment — a vat of liquid xenon sitting nearly a mile underground in the former Homestake gold mine in South Dakota — has detected a…
One of Einstein’s deepest ideas has just been put to its most striking test yet. Physicists report they have directly observed a long-predicted quantum effect of gravity — capturing, for the first time, gravity acting on matter in a distinctly…
Saturn, the planet famous for wearing a giant hexagon on its north pole, has been caught growing a matching secret on the other end of the planet. New analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data reveals a huge ten-sided atmospheric pattern…