After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...

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The idea of the moon crashing into Earth seems impossible, but Moonfall's visual effects supervisor used real physics to figure out how it could happen.

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