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Electric vehicles may be the biggest topic in alternative fuels, but they're not alone: Hydrogen-powered engines have existed ...
Hybrid and electric vehicles continue to push their way in the market, but what about hydrogen fuel cars? Here's what you need to know about the pros and cons.
The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...
Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of ...
The question of where atoms come from requires a lot of physics to be answered completely – and even then, physicists only have good guesses to explain how some atoms are formed.
Deep within the Milky Way’s core, researchers have uncovered cold gas clouds racing through a superheated galactic wind.
Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has been getting bigger since the Big Bang. When the hydrogen and helium atoms ...
Almost two-thirds of the world's population is affected by the monsoon—the annual arrival of intense rains in areas north and ...
Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...
In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...