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Michelle Starr

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Michelle Starr

    Physicists Quantum-Entangled a Levitating Speck of Glass With Light at Room Temperature (opens the original)

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    A new window into the quantum realm has just been opened by a single microscopic grain of glass levitating in a beam of light. In what may be the world's tiniest disco, physicists intertwined the grain's properties with those of light so tightly that one could not be described without including the other. This is quantum entanglement – and this experiment marks the first demonstration of persistent entanglement between the motion of a levitated object and light that travels away from it, all wit

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Michelle Starr

    Watch Plasma Erupt in Full Color Inside a Fusion Reactor at 16,000 FPS (opens the original)

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    When the tokamak powers on, something magical happens in the confines of its reinforced belly. Plasma born of heavy hydrogen blooms into brilliant pink, roiling and writhing around the doughnut-shaped chamber. Then, tiny grains of lithium tumble into the maelstrom, sparkling like scarlet fairy dust before bursting into streaks of vivid green-yellow light. Thanks to a high-speed color camera, we can watch this process in action as the plasma heats up inside Tokamak Energy's ST40 machine, creating

  3. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Michelle Starr

    Scientists Connected 3 Human Mini-Brains in a Dish. They Learned Something The Others Couldn't. (opens the original)

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    The human brain is a magnificently complex information-processing machine that is extremely off-limits to certain kinds of research. Science survived the moral void into which brain research fell for much of the 20th century; and, for exceptionally valid ethical reasons, there are now stringent rules governing what researchers are allowed to do with human brains that humans are still very much using. What scientists can do is grow little bits of one in a dish. These tiny, three-dimensional clump

  4. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Michelle Starr

    Scientists Watched Human Dementia Proteins Spread Through Mouse Brains Like Prions (opens the original)

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    Prions are one of nature's cruelest tricks. Proteins are chains of amino acids that need to fold in very specific ways – a process that does not always work as intended. Your body is pretty good at correcting these errors – but every so often, a prion emerges. This isn't just a crooked, non-functional protein. It's a gnarly shape that shares instructions for how it got that way, while resisting the body's clean-up mechanisms. As these instructions spread through the brain, the result is rapid, p

  5. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Michelle Starr

    A Black Hole Could Spit Itself Out of Its Own Hair, Leaving a Boson Star in Its Wake (opens the original)

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    If anything is forever in this Universe, it's black holes – or so their physics suggests. These ultra-dense objects are possessed of inexorable gravitational fields. Matter goes in. Very little ever comes out. They punctuate the cosmos like full stops, steadily growing ever bigger, with next to nothing that can undermine their inevitability. But that doesn't mean black holes are inviolable. And theoretical physicists have just found a method of black hole decay that's even wackier than the objec

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