Ben Turner is a U.K. based staff writer at Live Science. He covers physics and astronomy, among other topics like weird animals and climate change. He graduated from University College London with a degree in particle physics before training as a journalist. When he's not writing, Ben enjoys reading literature, playing the guitar and embarrassing himself with chess.
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China's "artificial sun" has set a new world record after reaching temperatures five times hotter than the sun.

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Theories based only on real numbers are incapable of explaining the results of this new experiment.

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NASA is tracking two explorers on a 2,268-mile (3,650 kilometers) journey across Antarctica to learn more about humanity's ability to survive on Mars.

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The UN says temperatures were "more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic."

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The messy quantum soup of spin states allows for quantum entanglement across an entire material.

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The mineral-rich asteroid has an estimated worth of $4.71 billion.

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The effect, called Pauli blocking, has been predicted for 30 years. Scientists just proved it for the first time.

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To create the ice, the scientists had to squeeze a water droplet to 3.5 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure and heat it hotter than the sun.

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The hypothesis could help to explain the weird discrepancies spotted in space-time ripples from enormous black hole collisions.

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The rate of atmospheric expansion has increased since the first measurements in the 1980s.

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This eclipse will be the longest one of the century, and of the past 580 years.

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Aside from lava flows, the volcano has been belching out high-speed molten boulders and causing tremors.

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The enormous pledge encompasses over 85% of the world's forests and more than 100 nations.

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Scientists made the startling discovery by plugging radio wave observations into a brand-new computer model.

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Wigner crystals have been theorized for more than 80 years, but this is the first time the elusive crystals have been captured in an image.

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Their work gave us crucial insights into how complex systems behave.

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The fireball’s bright streak was captured by a neighborhood porch camera.

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The crystals neatly sidestep some of physics' most iron-clad laws.

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A new simulation predicts that the lost giants were dislodged by gigantic collisions and have wandered the outskirts of galaxies ever since.

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Astronomers use the rings to study remote galaxies and to measure the masses of the objects that create them.

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The new phase of matter behaves like a solid and a frictionless liquid at the same time

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The particles used were spooky virtual particles, conjured from a disturbance between two electromagnetic fields.

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Although scientists don’t fully understand the varying strengths of the factors contributing to the slowdown, all of them are linked to human-caused climate change.
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