How NASCAR's banked turns help cars go faster
Many NASCAR tracks use banked turns that are sloped to keep race cars tilted inwards. These banks are both safer and faster than flat roads. The race cars, which can reach speeds faster than 200 mph at...
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Satellite collisions may set off a space-junk disaster that could end human...
One of SpaceX's new Starlink internet satellites risked hitting a European spacecraft on Monday. The ESA moved its satellite, called Aeolus, and avoided a 1-in-1,000 chance of collision.As more...
View ArticleHow NFL quarterbacks throw perfect spirals
NFL quarterbacks like Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, and Drew Brees make throwing a perfect spiral look easy, but it's far more complicated than it seems.To take a closer look, we spoke to NCAA football...
View ArticleWhat if Santa really delivered presents in one night?
If Santa really delivered presents on Christmas Eve, he'd need to fly over a thousand times faster than the world's faster jet fighter to visit about 240 million homes. If every kid received one...
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An incredible animation by a planetary scientist shows how fast each planet...
A video by planetary scientist James O'Donoghue shows a slice of every planet in the solar system spinning on one giant globe.The animation provides a comparison of how quickly (or slowly) each planet...
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Legendary mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson has died at the age of 96
Mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson has died at the age of 96, according to a press release issued by the Institute for Advanced Study. Dyson was perhaps most famous for contributions to quantum...
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Astronauts on the space station are helping to forge a bizarre 5th state of...
Researchers created a fifth state of matter in 1995, the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), by cooling atoms to temperatures lower than in interstellar space.BECs don't exist naturally and have only...
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An underground dark-matter experiment may have stumbled on the 'holy grail':...
A dark-matter experiment in an underground Italian lab may have discovered a new particle called the solar axion.If that's indeed what was detected, it would be the first direct evidence of a particle...
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The Beirut explosion created a huge mushroom cloud and visible blast wave,...
An explosion at a port rocked the Lebanese capital city of Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least dozens of people.As videos of the explosion spread across social-media sites, some observers likened the...
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NASA patented a faster, cheaper route to the moon. The first spacecraft to...
Summary List PlacementThe moon is both seductively close to Earth and cosmically far away: Decades after the end of the space race, it remains extraordinarily expensive and difficult to actually get...
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A collision in space revealed a black hole that physicists thought could...
Summary List PlacementSeven billion years ago, two black holes crashed into each other and merged into one enormous black hole with the mass of 142 suns.The collision reverberated through space and...
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Time travel is theoretically possible, new calculations show. But that...
Summary List PlacementImagine you could hop into a time machine, press a button, and journey back to 2019, before the new coronavirus made the leap from animals to humans. What if you could find and...
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Physicists made a superconductor that works at room temperature. It could one...
Summary List PlacementSuperconductors – materials that transport electricity with no energy lost – have until now only worked at extremely cold temperatures, from about -100 degrees Fahrenheit to the...
View ArticleA professional drifter explains the physics behind drifting
Summary List PlacementFollowing is a transcript of the video.Narrator: Drifting, the most exhilarating and mesmerizing exhibition of style and control while driving a car. Drifting is graceful, simple...
View ArticleHere's what would happen if you tried to dig to China
Summary List PlacementTo dig to China, you'd need to start your journey from Chile or Argentina — the location of China's antipode (or opposite point on Earth). You would need a super-powered drill to...
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1,033 people sent us ideas on how to dislodge the Ever Given ship from the...
Summary List PlacementLast week, we laid an offer down on the table: Sure, send in your weird idea to dislodge the Ever Given container ship from the Suez Canal — what could go wrong?I received 1,033...
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University of Chicago astrophysicists just released an algorithm to detect...
Summary List PlacementTwo physicists from the University of Chicago released an in-depth report on Thursday outlining an algorithm that they developed to analyze 149 Taylor Swift songs to decode the...
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A new experiment has broken the known rules of physics, hinting at a...
Summary List PlacementOne of the most ubiquitous subatomic particles in the universe, the muon, seems to be misbehaving.Or at least, it isn't behaving the way physicists expect. In fact, muons are...
View ArticleHow this cat survived a 32-story fall
Summary List PlacementFollowing is a transcript of the video.Narrator: 32 stories above the streets of New York City, a cat fell from a window and lived. After vets treated the cat's chipped tooth and...
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A YouTuber bet a physicist $10,000 that a wind-powered vehicle could travel...
Summary List PlacementWhen Derek Muller took an experimental land yacht for a spin this spring, he wasn't aiming to stir up scientific controversy. He certainly wasn't trying to win $10,000 in a...
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