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The electron runs the periodic table. Its few rules are the key to all 118 elements.

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by Kaplan Test Prep 2010

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by David Lindley 1996

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Particles walk through walls and talk across galaxies. At quantum scales, impossible is the rule.

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Quantum Physics 86%

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Water self-assembles into a hidden, light-charged battery that powers the living world.

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Complex life arose exactly once in 4 billion years. The reason: a hidden energy constraint.

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Quantum

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Einstein and Bohr's 30-year argument revealed a universe stranger than either could accept.

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by Marcelo Gleiser 2010

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by James D. Watson 1968

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by David Kaiser 2011

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by Richard P. Feynman 1999

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Half the universe should be antimatter. That it vanished is physics' most persistent mystery.

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Half the universe should be antimatter. That it vanished is physics' most persistent mystery.

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Dancing Wu Li Masters

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by Gary Zukav 1979

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by Christophe Galfard • 2015

Why time slows at high speed, space is never empty, 95% of the universe is missing.

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A mousetrap stops working when one part is missing. So do the molecular machines inside every cell.

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A mousetrap stops working when one part is missing. So do the molecular machines inside every cell.

by Michael J. Behe 1996

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Eighty-four percent of matter is invisible. A century-long hunt has yet to catch it.

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The Elephant in the Universe 86%

Eighty-four percent of matter is invisible. A century-long hunt has yet to catch it.

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by Kip S. Thorne • 2015

Black holes bend time. Wormholes need exotic matter. Interstellar's physicist explains.

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🧠 Theoretical Physics 🌌 Black Holes ⏱️ General Relativity 🌍 Cosmology 🎬 Movie Science

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Black holes bend time. Wormholes need exotic matter. Interstellar's physicist explains.

by Kip S. Thorne 2015

4.30

7k+ ratings

🧠 Theoretical Physics 🌌 Black Holes ⏱️ General Relativity 🌍 Cosmology 🎬 Movie Science

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