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New results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provide strong evidence that smashing ...

Tiny atoms and molecules are constantly bombarding each other all around us. While we regularly measure the large-scale ...

New results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider provide strong evidence that smashing oxygen nuclei together at nearly the speed of light generates a quark-gluon plasma ...

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Russian physicists simulated a collision of two wormholes and found unusual gravitational waves: short, sharp bursts unlike the signals from black holes.

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An artist's impression of two black holes colliding. Interacting wormholes could produce a similar gravitational wave ...