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AI-generated image. Credit: Midjourney/ZME Science. How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast cells tip the scales at about 100 picograms each. A single E. coli bacterium weighs only one picogram, about 60 million times lighter than a grain of sand. That such a measurement …

For several decades, a central puzzle in quantum physics has remained unsolved: Could electrons behave like a perfect, frictionless fluid with electrical properties described by a universal quantum number? This unique property of electrons has been extremely difficult to detect in any material so far because of the presence of atomic defects, impurities, and imperfections in the material. Researchers at …

Matthew McConaughey in the 2014 film, Interstellar. Warner Bros./Alamy hide caption toggle caption Warner Bros./Alamy Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar was a phenomenon in 2014. Set in the future, Earth has been struck by a global crop blight. Former NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is pulled into a NASA mission to transport the human race to a new planet, via wormhole. Back …

Scientists have detected a “Dirac fluid” in graphene, where electrons flow like a nearly perfect liquid and defy conventional physics. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Electrons in graphene can act like a perfect fluid, defying established physical laws. This finding advances both fundamental science and potential quantum technologies. For decades, quantum physicists have wrestled with a fundamental question: can electrons flow like a …

It isn’t pressure or friction that makes ice slippery, but hidden forces at the molecular level. New findings show that dipole interactions disrupt ice’s structure in unexpected ways. Credit: Shutterstock For nearly two centuries, scientists believed that ice becomes slippery because pressure or friction melts its surface. New research from Saarland University overturns this idea. For more than a century, …

“I Just Saw Impossible”: Scientists Prove Time Reflections Exist, Leaving Experts Stunned and Forcing Physics to Rewrite Its Own Laws  Rude Baguette Source link

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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Scientists Solve 90-Year-Old Mystery in Quantum Physics  SciTechDailyView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

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 …