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An artist's impression of the UK-led CosmoCube spacecraft, which would orbit be tasked with listening out for an "ancient ...

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This artist's conception depicts ordinary matter in the warm, thin gas making up the intergalactic medium (IGM)—which has ...

Bose-Einstein condensates in designed potentials represent a model system for the investigation of nonlinear matter wave dynamics, since both the nonlinearity and the potentials can be very well ...