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Earth hit by ultra powerful particle in 2023 that may date to the Big Bang

In 2023, Earth was struck by a subatomic particle so energetic that, on paper, it should not exist. The neutrino, calculated at about 220 petaelectronvolts, dwarfed anything produced in human-made ...
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Scientists Build Smallest Engine Ever, Hotter Than the Sun and Powered by Randomness

Scientists have built the world’s smallest engine. It consists of a single microscopic particle, smaller than a human cell, levitating in a vacuum. By rattling this lone particle with “noisy” ...
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Microscopic Engine Is Hottest In The World – Just Like The Core Of The Sun

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
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Scientists shrink a Stirling heat engine to single microscopic particle

Researchers created a microscopic version of the Stirling engine using a single particle. At such small scales, the random fluctuations of Brownian motion affect the position of the particle and the ...