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Some quantum particles gotta get right back to where they started from. Physicists have confirmed a theoretically predicted phenomenon called the quantum boomerang effect. An experiment reveals that, ...

For the first time, physicists have confirmed a weird quantum phenomenon in which tiny particles, when nudged out of place, will snap right back to where they came from. The strange behavior, called ...

New age dating of a boomerang found in a Polish cave has archaeologists abuzz that it could be the oldest boomerang on Earth.

An ancient, red giant star in the throes of a frigid death has produced the coldest known object in the cosmos — the Boomerang Nebula. How this star was able to create an environment strikingly colder ...

Scientists have recorded the first evidence of a so-called "boomerang earthquake" occurring deep in the Atlantic Ocean. A boomerang occurs when a fracture proceeds in one direction before rapidly ...

Scientists discovered ultra-cold regions on the lunar surface and distant cosmic structures. Lunar craters could be the coldest in our solar system, with temperatures around 25 kelvins. However, the ...

A study of the impact of 'boomerang fathers' -- those who cycle in and out of their children's lives -- found they provided a type of stability in a daughter's life that staved off her depressive ...