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This week, scientists with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute reported that a key current, the Atlantic Meridional ...

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At extremely high densities, quarks are expected to form pairs, as electrons do in a superconductor. This high-density quark ...

Neutron stars, the remnants of massive stars after a supernova explosion, have often been the focus of studies aimed at ...

Australian researchers have discovered a dead star that takes hours rather than milliseconds to spin, challenging scientists' ...

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A newly discovered neutron star is behaving so strangely that it may alter our understanding of the dense remains left behind ...

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