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Fundamental particles called quarks come in six different flavors. Protons are made of two up quarks and one down quark, while neutrons contain two down quarks and one up quark. (Image credit: MichaelTaylor | Shutterstock) Elementary particles are the smallest known building blocks of the ...
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The influence of having a black teacher can make a monumental difference in a black student's life, and the effect begins early in an education. Having just one black teacher in elementary school not only makes children more like to graduate high school – it also makes them significantly mor...
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Physicist: The Big Bang is sometimes described as being awhite hole. But if you think of a white hole as something that’s the opposite of a black hole, then no: white holes aren’t real. They show up when you describe a black hole usingsome weird coordinates, so they’re essentially...
For example, the wormhole has to be extremely clean—i.e., free from errant particles: If particles that fall into the wormhole scatter and lose energy then they would accumulate inside, contributing some positive energy that would eventually make the wormhole collapse back into a black hole. ...