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Technology Stealth jets? Hypersonic bombers? What's really being developed at the military's most famous classified base? For a closer look at the exotic aircraft the Air Force might be cooking up at...
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Researchers Lower the Force of Nothingness to, Well, Nothing
Science Scientists overcome quantum mechanics weirdness to pave the way for nanotechnology In the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics, even complete nothingness exerts a force. According to...
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