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• The future of particle accelerators is here
• Tarantula's ubiquity traced back to the Cretaceous
• The whitest paint is here -- and it's the coolest. Literally.

The future of particle accelerators is here Posted: 16 Apr 2021 12:50 PM PDT A new accelerator and detector will serve as a kind of camera, taking 3D images and movies of electrons colliding with polarized protons and ions. Like a CT scanner for atoms, the EIC will let scientists see how force-carrying gluon particles hold together quarks, the internal components of protons and neutrons. It will also offer insights into the spin of fundamental particles. Cutting-edge accelerators could collide with both energy consumption and our assumptions about the nature of matter.

Tarantula's ubiquity traced back to the Cretaceous Posted: 16 Apr 2021 12:50 PM PDT Tarantulas are among the most notorious spiders, due in part to their size, vibrant colors and prevalence throughout the world. But one thing most people don't know is that tarantulas are homebodies. Females and their young rarely leave their burrows and only mature males will wander to seek out a mate. How then did such a sedentary spider come to inhabit six out of seven continents?

The whitest paint is here -- and it's the coolest. Literally. Posted: 15 Apr 2021 11:18 AM PDT In an effort to curb global warming, engineers have created the whitest paint yet. Coating buildings with this paint may one day cool them off enough to reduce the need for air conditioning, the researchers say.

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