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Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

This video breaks down why Formula 1 engines sometimes explode under extreme stress. We look at the physics behind thermal ...

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Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...