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Seams on a baseball shift its trajectory by unexpectedly large amount

When a baseball is tilted and spinning just right, its raised, hand-stitched seams skew the process by which its wake is created and radically shift its trajectory in the air

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Why I've been somewhat obsessed with space-time this year

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Why adding water when you grind coffee beans makes for a better brew

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Physicists have worked out how to pour water as quietly as possible

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The wonder particle: How axions could solve more than just dark matter

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The wonder particle: How axions could solve more than just dark matter

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Physicists find ultimate limit for how accurate clocks can be

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A mysterious, incredibly energetic cosmic ray has smashed into Earth

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Lasers fired at crystals could uncover quantum nature of the vacuum

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Tiny lasers can be made from soap bubbles

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Ultracold atoms in space will let us stress test Einstein's relativity

Potassium and rubidium atoms aboard the International Space Station have been cooled almost to absolute zero to put a fundamental principle of Einstein’s general theory of relativity to the ultimate test

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First practical use for nuclear fusion could help cancer treatment

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Why the quantum universe is weirder than you think

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Physicists have invented a new way to shake a martini

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Bubble collisions underwater may create tiny droplets in sea spray

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