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Physicists finally figured out why food sticks to a frying pan
Uneven heating in a frying pan causes variance in the surface tension of cooking oil and leads to dry patches that can make food to stick to pans
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Dyson spheres: How to spot an alien megastructure
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The superconductor breakthrough that could mean an energy revolution
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How every galaxy comes from quantum fluctuations billions of years ago
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Everything we know about the universe – and a few things we don’t
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If the multiverse exists, are there infinite copies of me?
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Humans
Physics might create a backdoor to an afterlife – but don’t bank on it
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Superfluid used to make sounds that might be heard in neutron star
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The universe is expanding too fast, and that could rewrite cosmology
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Space
The Orion Nebula is now visible in the sky – here’s how to find it
From November to February, the Orion Nebula can be seen with the naked eye. But with a pair of binoculars you can get a much more detailed view, says Abigail Beall
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Carlo Rovelli’s new book: Eclectic essays on physics, history and more
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Ball lightning is so strange it might just come from another dimension
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We’ve built a fourth dimension of space and we’re about to look inside
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Nobel prize for physics won by black hole pioneers
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