Some of these killed people. Some broke people's minds. And some poisoned entire cities. From the Demon Core to Chernobyl's liquidators, these are 25 real science experiments and projects that went ...

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A bizarre, record-breaking neutrino detected in 2023 may have originated from an exploding primordial black hole—a relic from ...

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A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that ...

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This week in Woo! Science, the approach of Easter means marshmallow Peeps. So, why not take them to the physics lab? And to ...