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Why stepping on Legos hurts more than stepping on just about anything else
Right up there with how the gun on the original Duck Hunt game worked, why it hurts so much to step on a Lego brick is one of the questions we're asked the most, so it's high time we answered it.As...
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The stars in the sky 'sing' but we’ll never be able to hear them
The surface of a star is a volatile place. Constantly in motion, a star's exterior flows with plasma and often accumulates new materials, which are drawn in by the star's immense gravitational...
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A physicist might be in trouble for what he revealed in his new book about...
According to the New York Times, physicist Kenneth Ford has defied the government’s orders to remove classified information from his new book, Building the H Bomb: A Personal History.The Department of...
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Scientists just made the crazy discovery that magnets can control heat and sound
Researchers at the Ohio State University have discovered how to control heat with magnetic fields, proving that both heat and sound have magnetic properties.The study has shown that photons, the...
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Docking with the International Space Station is so insanely complicated it's...
Imagine being chased by a 925,000 pound machine traveling at 17,500 miles per hour.That's what's happens when astronauts dock with the International Space Station. Surprisingly though, the process can...
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MIT scientists just destroyed a quantum record
With just one particle of light, scientists successfully linked together over 3,000 atoms in a science fiction-sounding state known as "quantum entanglement."The record-breaking number could lead to...
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We actually have no idea what the Higgs boson looks like
In 2013, the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) caused an international press frenzy. Magazines and newspapers published dozens of stunning images to...
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Here's the truth behind the strange phenomena that caused 2 men to sue the...
The world's largest, most powerful particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — is scheduled to turn back on in the next few days, according to a report in Nature on March 31.Although this...
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Exactly how long it would take to fall through the Earth to the other side of...
How long would it take to fall down a hole in the Earth and reach the other side of the planet? Even less time than previously thought, a scientist reveals.A scenario often presented to introductory...
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The world's largest particle collider found a penguin-shaped anomaly
A penguin-shaped anomaly first detected two years ago has survived a comprehensive new analysis of data from the first run of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists revealed today at a meeting...
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Breaking glass looks insane in slow motion
It seems to happen in an instant. One second, you're holding a glass of water. The next, it's slipping out of your hand, there's a shattering sound, and suddenly the glass is in a million little pieces...
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If parallel universes exist, here's how we could actually find the evidence
Imagine a physicist sitting in a chamber with a gun pointed directly at her head.Every few seconds, the spin direction of a random particle in the room is measured. If the particle is spinning one...
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Watch sound waves put out fire
A pair of engineering students from George Mason University in Virginia have created a device that can put out a blaze using only a blast of sound.In this demonstration video, Viet Tran and Seth...
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3 life lessons Neil deGrasse Tyson swears by
Astrophysicists probe the nature of our universe — a place too vast and grand for a single human mind to fully comprehend — and while that might make some feel small, Neil deGrasse Tyson has said time...
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The LHC is being resurrected this weekend — here's how it could change...
The revamped Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the monstrous underground atom smasher that hurls particles at near light speed, will turn back on this weekend after two years.The LHC already revolutionized...
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There's an insane optical illusion that makes a full moon look squished —...
Who broke the moon?Believe it or not, that's a real photo of the full moon taken in 2012 by an astronaut on board the International Space Station (ISS). Here's another photo with the moon even more...
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The world's most powerful particle accelerator just started running again —...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the giant underground particle accelerator that brought us the Higgs boson, restarted on Easter Sunday (April 5).The LHC laid dormant for two years while it was...
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The crazy phenomena that caused 2 men to sue the machine that brought us the...
Easter Sunday was a very happy day for scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research because — after two long years of maintenance — the moment they've all been waiting for arrived: the...
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The European Space Agency is using a 10,000-year-old fishing net design to...
Aerospace engineering usually focuses on finding the next best thing, developing complex new technologies to explore the final frontier.But sometimes it is just as innovative to recycle old ideas in...
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Everything you need to know but were too afraid to ask about the biggest...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest machine ever built, restarted on April 5, and it's powering up to uncover some potentially game-changing discoveries in physics.The LHC brought us the Higgs...
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