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Unexpected findings in the ‘small’ Big Bang experiment leave physicists perplexed

Scientists conducted ultra-hot experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, recreating temperatures not seen since the Big Bang. The unexpected results stunned physicists. A temperature not seen since the first microsecond of the birth of the universe has been recreated by scientists, and they have discovered that the event did not play out quite as …

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A fireball that exploded over Canada has been traced to a very unexpected origin

A fireball that exploded over Canada has been traced to a very unexpected origin

The Earth is constantly bombarded from space. Dust, pebbles and chunks of rock fall into our atmosphere daily, sometimes burning up spectacularly in a fiery trail across the sky. These bolides, or fireballs, are usually larger chunks of asteroids or comets that broke away from their parent bodies and eventually fell into Earth’s gravity well. …

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An 'unexpected' space traveler challenges theories about the origin of the solar system

An ‘unexpected’ space traveler challenges theories about the origin of the solar system

The fireball captured by the Global Fireball Observatory camera at Lake Miquelon Provincial Park, Alberta. Credit: University of Alberta Western researchers have shown that a fireball that originated on the outskirts of the solar system was likely made of rock, not ice, challenging long-held beliefs about the formation of the solar system. Just at the …

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