Particles accelerate without a push, MIT News
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Physicists at MIT and Technion have found that subatomic particles can be induced to speed up all by themselves, almost to the speed of light, without the application of any external forces.
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What the heck is going on?' Extremely high-energy particle detected falling to Earth, Particle physics
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Particles accelerate without a push, MIT News
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Fast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease, MIT News
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Physicists flip particle accelerator setup to gain a clearer view of atomic nuclei, MIT News
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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape - IEEE Spectrum
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Particles accelerate without a push, MIT News
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Particles, MIT News
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Gooey rock in mantle thickens 1,000 kilometers down
How scientists are using artificial intelligence
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Physicists detect a hybrid particle held together by uniquely intense “glue”, MIT News