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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by using a titanium beam to irradiate a sample, could point toward the ...

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CBSE 9th Assertion Reason Questions: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 9 exams 2025-26 are around the corner and it's time for students to revise and prepare all the questions. One ...

By Mackenzie Devereux The Standard Model, depicting the fundamental building blocks of the universe, including top quarks. Courtesy of Cush via Wikimedia Commons Sitong An, a physicist at Carnegie ...

Look closely at the image full of repeating ‘59s’ stacked in neat rows with a bright yellow background. Your challenge: spot the single ‘95’ hidden somewhere in the grid. But there is a catch, you ...

Optical illusion puzzles have been there for centuries and these are fun challenges that are designed to play tricks on our eyes and brains. Optical illusions work on a simple principle where it ...

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Researchers have for the first time measured the speed of proton transfer through charged water, a fundamental chemical ...

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