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Information Transfer through “Flickering Action at a Distance” at the Large Hadron Collider

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The interior of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Rochester physicists working on the detector have observed spin entanglement between top quarks and top antiquarks persisting over long distances and high speeds. Credit: CERN Researchers have confirmed that quantum entanglement persists between top quarks, the heaviest fundamental particles known. Physicists … Read more

How to See ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Nova Burst Over US Skies

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The night sky may be on the verge of gaining a brand new star in a few weeks. T Coronae Borealis, also known as “The Blazing Star” or T CrB, is a binary star system located about 3,000 light-years from Earth. It will explode in spectacular fashion any day now. Usually too faint to see … Read more

A global push fixed the ozone hole. Satellites can threaten it.

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Low Earth orbit, a layer of the highway that wraps around Earth’s thermosphere some 200 to 600 miles above our heads, is newly congested. However, no one knows how the large increase in satellites orbiting the Earth will affect the atmosphere and therefore life below. With the rush to send up more and more satellites, … Read more

NASA cancels ISS spacewalk due to suit coolant leak (video)

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NASA canceled a spacewalk on the International Space Station today (June 24) after a spacesuit coolant leak in the hatch. NASA astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mike Barratt were told by Mission Control at 8:52 a.m. EDT (1252 GMT) to abort their planned 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS ). The pair had … Read more

US ‘on schedule’ in race with China to land men on Moon, NASA chief says

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After another Chinese spacecraft touched down on the lunar surface earlier this month, this time to take samples from the far side of the moon, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson praised a country that is challenging the United States’ long-standing dominance in space. . He said he was impressed with the fourth successful moon landing. “It … Read more