Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The war in Ukraine is not only the largest European land war since the Second World War. It is also the first large-scale shooting war between…
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Treasure hoard of American and Russian gold coins found in Polish forest |
A team of metal detectorists from the Szczecin Search Group Association have uncovered a treasure hoard consisting of American dollars and Russian rubles in the forests near Szczecin, Poland. The…
Astronomers are hoping to detect gravitational waves coming from supernova 1987A
Hubble Space Telescope image of SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA A supernova explosion is a cataclysmic explosion that marks the violent end of a massive star’s life.…
Acquitting a physicist accused of ‘obscurantism’
This is the third page of Bohm’s letter to Einstein dated 14 November 1954 containing a paragraph on the infinite structure of reality. Courtesy of the Birkbeck College Archives. Credit:…
Head lice hitched a ride on humans to the Americas at least twice
Lice have been bugging humans for as long as our species has been around, and the insects’ genes record the story of their hosts’ global voyages, a study finds. Lice…
Physicists trap electrons in a 3D crystal for the first time
MIT physicists have trapped electrons in a pure crystal, marking the first achievement of an electronic flat band in a three-dimensional material. The rare electronic state is thanks to a…
