Using one of the strongest magnets we’ve ever used, we searched a canal known for holding a lot of submerged metal. As we pulled items from the water, it became clear this wasn’t just a basic test.

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A new study has connected the famous m87 black hole, the first ever imaged, to its powerful cosmic jet, revealing how it launches particles at near light speed.

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CERN's ALICE experiment has resolved the puzzle of deuteron formation, showing that most deuterons form via resonance-driven ...

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Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and colleagues have developed a new way to fabricate three-dimensional nanoscale devices ...