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Physicists have just dropped a new precise measurement for gravity. The newly published value for the strength of gravity, known as “G” or “Big G”, is significantly smaller than some previous ...

This article contains spoilers for the Alien: Earth Season 1 finale. Who are the real monsters on Alien: Earth? That’s literally the title of the final episode of Season 1, “The Real Monsters,” but it ...

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A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled. Researchers at TUM have succeeded in observing the visual information flow ...

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When lasers were invented in the 1960s, they opened new avenues for scientific discovery and everyday applications from scanners at the grocery store to corrective eye surgery. Conventional lasers ...