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The physics of Mario World show the game has a fundamental flaw
Nintendo's Mario series is the best-selling video game franchise in history. And with moves like Mario's, it's no mystery why so many people enjoy navigating the little Italian plumber through his...
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The closest images ever taken of the sun show just how powerful it really is
On a clear day, the sun appears warm and inviting from 93 million miles away, but we know better. Upon closer examination with NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), scientists have seen exactly how...
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A physics student built a Lego model of the world's most powerful particle...
A particle physics student has used his downtime to build a Lego model of the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and is now lobbying the toy company to take it...
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How the foam on your latte keeps it from spilling
Ever wonder why you always made a mess of your work clothes while carrying a cup of coffee, while your latte-drinking friends generally manage to keep it together? As it turns out, scientists were also...
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Four ways to break the universe's speed limit
BI Answers: What can travel faster than the speed of light?When Albert Einstein first showed that light travels the same speed everywhere in the universe, he essentially stamped a speed limit on our...
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Scientists take the first ever photograph of light as both a wave and a...
For the first time ever, scientist have snapped a photo of light behaving as both a wave and a particle at the same time.The research was published on Monday in the journal Nature...
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You'll never guess what Neil deGrasse Tyson's favorite equation of Einstein's is
Albert Einstein had a knack for unlocking the secrets of the universe and as an astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson is undoubtedly familiar with the most complex, bizarre, and illuminating of...
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Strange 'iron rain' might explain why the Earth and the moon are so different
New experiments show that the asteroids that slammed into Earth and the moon more than 4 billion years ago were vaporised into a mist of iron.The findings, published in Nature Geoscience, suggest that...
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How geysers shoot thousands of gallons of boiling water hundreds of feet in...
Like a hidden world of chutes and ladders, the loopy plumbing beneath geysers may explain what causes them to erupt, a new study finds. This finding could settle a long-standing debate over the...
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This laser etching on a human hair is mind-blowing
What better way to build your brand than to etch your emblem into a human hair? That's exactly what scientists at IBM have done using a powerful type of laser called an excimer laser.The average human...
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String theory is one step closer to uniting 2 fundamental elements of physics
Thirty years have passed since a pair of physicists, working together on a stormy summer night in Aspen, Colo., realized that string theory might have what it takes to be the “theory of everything.”“We...
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Einstein’s famous theory of general relativity turns 100 this year — here’s...
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has held up pretty well after a century out in the world.The famous theory, which Einstein published in 1915, remains the bedrock upon which scientists'...
View ArticleThis space rocket will ‘take off’ from Times Square every night in March
Created by artist Marco Brambilla, Apollo XVIII presents the countdown to an imagined lift-off of a Saturn V rocket across Times Square’s spectacular screens at midnight. The fictional mission combines...
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Physicists are searching for ‘gravity particles’ that could help unite all of...
It may be possible to draw energy from a vacuum using gravity, a theoretical physicist says.If researchers succeed in showing that this can happen, it could prove the long-postulated existence of the...
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Here's what happens when you put general relativity to the test
A century ago this year, a young Swiss physicist, who had already revolutionized physics with discoveries about the relationship between space and time, developed a radical new understanding of...
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Here's how proving supersymmetry could completely change how we understand...
The $10 billion, 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has laid dormant for two years while engineers revamped it to hurl particles at even greater speeds. Physicists think the near-light-speed...
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Here's what the world's most powerful physics lab will be looking for when it...
By the end of March, an international team of physicists aims to awaken a monster machine from its two-year slumber and use it to hunt down one of the most elusive and mysterious particles in the...
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This is Neil deGrasse Tyson's favorite science joke
If you've ever listened to StarTalk radio, then you'll know that its host, famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, definitely has a sense of humor.His humor was not lost on Business Insider when we...
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Here are all the new particles we might discover when the world's largest...
Everything we can see around us, like the Earth, planets, and stars, only makes up about 5% of the universe.The rest of it is comprised of invisible forces and particles that we haven't directly...
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Incredible new invention has solved a universally annoying problem
One of the most frustrating feelings in the world is struggling to get the last bit of ketchup out of the bottle or the last squirt of toothpaste out of the tube.Now there's a coating called LiquiGlide...
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