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The bomb drops. A nuclear blast erupts. Uranium is vaporized, where it mixes with the atmosphere and is dispersed across the land as toxic dust called fallout.

If you happen to have an uncharged black hole handy, you may be able to power your house with it. Just set it spinning.

Why does the poo emoji look the way it does? Physics has the answer: as most animals defecate downward, each new coil falls a shorter distance, naturally forming the familiar tapered swirl.

Light could put the brakes on material diffusing through a solution, and the reason why touches on some of the stranger corners of quantum mechanics.