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CERN's Faster Than Light Result Is Actually The Second In Four Years
CERN stunned the world when it announced last week it had clocked neutrinos moving between CERN labs in Switzerland and San Grass, Italy faster than the speed of light. Since then physicists have been...
View ArticleSomeone Stuck A Camera On A Balloon And Floated It Up Into Space
You can do some incredible things with a video camera and a vision. Page Stephenson launched a balloon with a camera from Kent, Oregon, and it flew for 2 and a half hours before landing 87 miles away....
View ArticleThe Internet Weighs As Much As A Strawberry
Because computer data is made up of electrons and those electrons have mass, it stands to reason that you can "weigh" the Internet. Check out this video for all the details: DON'T MISS: A fully-loaded...
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Republicans May Have Totally Killed The Solyndra Scandal By Bullying Steven Chu
Republicans pulled the Solyndra scandal back into the spotlight with another investigative hearing Thursday, this time grilling Obama's Energy Secretary Steven Chu over why his department threw half a...
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Here's Why You Should Ignore Those Stories About Particles Moving Faster Than...
Talk about a story! One lab in the world — of tens of thousands — says it has evidence that would sunder a notion physicists hold dear to their hearts: there is a particle that moves faster than the...
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Scientists May Have Found The 'God Particle' That Makes Physics Work
Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, say they might have caught a glimpse of the Higgs Boson — which would help explain why matter has mass in the universe — according to a...
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Report: Stephen Hawking Frequents Sex Clubs In His Free Time
Even renowned physicists like to have a good time. According to RadarOnline, Stephen Hawking is a frequenter of Freedom Acres swingers club in Devore, California. We bet you didn't see that one...
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This Professor Used Physics To Prove He Didn't Run A Stop Sign
A professor used physics to prove he didn't run a stop sign and avoided paying $400. Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist at the University of California San Diego, was apprehended for running a stop sign....
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Why Heavy Raindrops Don't Crush Tiny Mosquitoes
New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals how mosquitoes are able to survive heavy rainfall, even though a single water droplet can weigh up to 50...
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Complicated Scientific Theories Explained Using Simple Kitchen Terms
THE BIG BANG THEORY explained by a muffin: IN THE CLASSROOM Around 13.7 billion years ago, not a single element of the entire known universe existed. There was no space, no matter, no time, no...
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Why All Faucet Drops Have The Same Shape
Physicists previously theorized that that the angle of water dripping from a faucet right before it breaks off into a drop should be 36.2 degrees. This was true regardless of how fast the water was...
View ArticleHow An NYC Bus Driver Was Able To Catch A Falling Child
A New York City bus driver has been hailed as a hero after catching a 7-year-old girl in midair when she plunged three stories from the window of a housing complex.Stephen St. Bernard, 52, was walking...
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Beautiful Video Shows Mercury Dancing To The Beat
Watch this mercury drop suspended on Teflon as the surface is vibrated at specific amplitude and frequency. The frequencies create different modes of resonance, because the molecules vibrate faster...
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How To Skip Any Rock
Ever wonder what makes a rock skip? Wonder no more after watching this video from the Brigham Young University's Fluid dynamics lab. They use high speed imaging to show the science behind rock skipping...
View ArticleWatch An Arrow Come Straight At You In Slow Motion
The explanation from F*ckYeahFluidDynamics:When an arrow is fired from a bow, as in the high speed video above, the sudden impetus of force from the bowstring causes the arrow to flex and vibrate as it...
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Nine Physicists Just Got $3 Million Each
Nine physicists just received the deposit of a lifetime: A $3 million reward for their research.The multimillion dollar prize came from Yuri Milner, in the form of the newly established Fundamental...
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Scientists Are Even More Sure They've Found A Higgs-Like Particle
New results coming from the Large Hadron Collider suggest that the hunt for the Higgs Boson, the particle that gives matter mass and holds the physical fabric of the universe together, really is...
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The Most Basic Theory About Black Holes Is Wrong
If most people know one thing about black holes, they probably know that nothing can escape from them, not even light.Yet this most basic tenet about black holes has actually been disproven by the...
View ArticleAstronaut Yo-Yos In Space To Impress The Ladies
NASA Astronaut Don Pettit uses his off-duty time to practice his microgravity yo-yo skills in this video from PhysicsCentral.My favorite quote: "It's important to understand the physics of your...
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The Science Behind Your Dog's Ability To Shake Itself Dry
Next time the family dog bounds out of the nearest body of water and shakes itself off right beside you, don't get irritated: You're witnessing a feat of evolution that engineers can only dream of...
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