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If the Earth were a flat surface and the Sun moved overhead and you traced shadows over the course of a year, the shadow's ...

Researchers at OIST built a graphite disk that levitates and spins for hours in a vacuum, showing how perfect magnetic symmetry can cancel energy loss.

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Fukuoaka's osmotic power plant is supplied by local desalination facilities and uses a natural process to generate modest ...

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The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology. Within the standard framework of ...