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Black and White image of Marie Curie looking into the camera. Text below says: Born this day Nov 7 1867, Marie Curie Polish and French physicist and chemist, who discovered radium and polonium. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first and only person to win the Nobel Prize twice in 2 scientific fields. Her notebooks are so radiated they are still stored in lead-lined boxes in France.

Marie Curie Born On November 7

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Marie Curie Polish-born French physicist born on this day November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Polish and French physicist and chemist, who discovered radium and polonium. She was the first woman to wi...

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We now know how static electricity is created

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We now know how static electricity is created after scientists explain how rubbing a surface creates electrical current

Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

Scientists Uncover the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect

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Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

Artist’s illustration of one of the Voyager spacecraft. Credit: Caltech/NASA-JPL

NASA tries to understand Voyager 1 signal

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NASA tries to understand Voyager 1 signal that was sent in response to a poke sent by NASA. Voyager 1 has not been sending usable data since Nov 2023.

Artist view of orbiting black holes. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

Black Holes Consume Entropy

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When you add information to a black hole, it gets larger. That in and of itself is not surprising, but black holes – and only black holes – grow in such a way that their surface areas, not their volum...

Sheet Music: Where Parallel Lines Converge Full score and sheet music for individual instruments is available at: https://chandra.si.edu/sound/symphony.html (Composition: NASA/CXC/SAO/Sophie Kastner)

NASA turns telescope data into music you can play

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NASA turns telescope data into music you can play. It has been turned into sheet music and a recording has been made by musicians.

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What are these quantum dots that got their discoverers a Nobel Prize?

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Quantum dot technology gave us today’s high definition TVs and now a Nobel Prize to its discoverers and developers.

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Why does time change when traveling close to the speed of light? 

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Why does time change when traveling close to the speed of light? A physicist answers.

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Nobel Prize in Physics for Climate Scientists

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Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi were announced as the winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work to understand complex systems such as the Earth's climate.