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“It Looked Alive In The Sky”: Astronomers Stunned By Milky Way Cloud Holding Mass Of 160,000 Suns And Defying All Known Physics

“It Looked Alive In The Sky”: Astronomers Stunned By Milky Way Cloud Holding Mass Of 160,000 Suns And Defying All Known Physics

IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Astronomers discovered a massive molecular cloud in the Milky Way, weighing as much as 160,000 suns. 🔭 The Green Bank Telescope played a key role in identifying this cloud, located 23,000 light-years away. ⭐ Giant Molecular Clouds are essential for understanding star formation and galactic evolution. 🛰️ Future observations could reveal more about the mechanisms behind …

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Physics of badminton’s new killer spin serve

Physics of badminton’s new killer spin serve

Serious badminton players are constantly exploring different techniques to give them an edge over opponents. One of the latest innovations is the spin serve, a devastatingly effective method in which a player adds a pre-spin just before the racket contacts the shuttlecock (aka the birdie). It’s so effective—some have called it “impossible to return“—that the Badminton World Federation (BWF) banned …

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Strange new shapes may rewrite the laws of physics

Strange new shapes may rewrite the laws of physics

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the mathematicians Claudia Fevola from Inria Saclay and Anna-Laura Sattelberger from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, recently published in the Notices of the American Mathematical …

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Gravity vs Quantum Physics: Researchers Say They are Closing in on “One of the Most Important Outstanding Problems”

Gravity vs Quantum Physics: Researchers Say They are Closing in on “One of the Most Important Outstanding Problems”

In a new roundup of promising advances in quantum physics, researchers are revealing the upcoming cutting-edge studies they hope will finally lead to reconciling the quantum framework with the pesky issue of its unclear relationship to gravity. Quantum physics may have weathered 100 years of scientific examination, with relevance to everything from the periodic table to the shine of stars …

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How Physics Revealed a Life-Saving Blood Pressure Fix – SciTechDaily

How Physics Revealed a Life-Saving Blood Pressure Fix  SciTechDaily Cambridge study reveals critical flaw in blood pressure readings — and how to fix it  Medical Economics Why your blood pressure reading might be wrong  Earth.com Study Finds Cuff-Based Blood Pressure Devices Often Inaccurate Due to Factors Like Arterial Stiffness and Arm Size  geneonline.com Major Flaw In Blood Pressure Tests Could Be Giving Millions The …

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Strange atomic vibration discovered may solve physics mystery

Strange atomic vibration discovered may solve physics mystery

A cryogenic microscope that fits on a laboratory bench has now let scientists watch electrons shake graphene’s atoms in real time, revealing something called “phasons.” The work ties those shivers to the zero-resistance current and odd “strange metal” signals that appear when two graphene sheets are rotated by about 1.1° or what’s referred to as the “magic angle.” …

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Swimming sperm appear to break Newtonian laws of physics

Swimming sperm appear to break Newtonian laws of physics

Human sperm are famously good swimmers, yet the physics of their motion has puzzled scientists for decades. Thick cervical mucus or lab-made gels should throttle any cell only fifty microns long, but sperm shoot through with surprising ease. That puzzle finally cracked when a Kyoto University team revealed that the sperm tail’s internal mechanics side step Newton’s third law, the …

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