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BB-8 from 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' is real — here's how the robot...
The cutest character from the new "Star Wars" film has a little mystery to it.Unbeknownst to many, BB-8 wasn't computer generated for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." It's a fully functioning robot, as...
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This physicist has a groundbreaking idea about why life exists
Why does life exist?Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning, and a colossal stroke of luck.But if a provocative new theory is correct, luck may have little to do with it....
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Astronomers spotted visible light from a black hole for the first time ever
For the first time, astronomers have observed bursts of visible light being released by a black hole as it swallows matter from nearby stars.These flashes of light, which lasted between several minutes...
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Picture-perfect snowflakes are 100% real — here's how they form
The shapes of the paper snowflakes you may have cut out as a kid actually exist in nature. If a snowstorm comes under just the right conditions, giant, picture-perfect snowflakes can form.Kenneth...
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Scientists may have detected gravity waves for the first time ever
Physicists have searched for ripples in the fabric of spacetime for nearly 100 years, ever since Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of relativity predicted they exist.These ripples, called gravitational...
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Why a rumor about the discovery of something Einstein predicted 100 years ago...
On Monday, theoretical physicist Laurence Krauss sent the scientific community on Twitter reeling when he suggested that researchers may have detected, for the first time, an astrophysical phenomenon...
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5 myths about gravitational waves
Rumors are swirling around that scientists working at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US have detected gravitational waves, which are ripples in space-time. Is it...
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Here's why discovering gravitational waves would be a 100-year breakthrough
There's a rumor circulating that physicists may have finally discovered ripples in the fabric of spacetime known as "gravitational waves."Scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave...
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Here’s how we’d know if we found gravitational waves
There's a rumor circulating that physicists have finally detected ripples in the fabric of spacetime — a discovery that could change physics as we know it.These ripples are called gravitational waves...
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Most of the universe is missing — here are 5 ambitious experiments that might...
Everything that we see around us — planets, stars, nebulas, and so on — only makes up about 15% of the matter in the universe.The other 85% of matter is missing. Scientists call this invisible stuff...
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The 2 most dangerous numbers in the universe are threatening the end of physics
A deeply disturbing and controversial line of thinking has emerged within the physics community.It's the idea that we are reaching the absolute limit of what we can understand about the world around us...
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Watch a machine smash your favorite everyday objects with 100,000 lbs. of...
General Electric makes some ridiculously strong alloys that can withstand incredible pressures and temperatures — stuff you'd want to tool into an airplane engine.To test how strong these alloys are,...
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We can already fast-forward in time — here’s why we can’t travel backward
It might sound like science fiction, but time travel is completely possible.Well, at least time travel in one direction.Back in the early 1900s, Einstein completely changed our understanding of the...
View ArticleScientists say blowing up the Death Star would have had a catastrophic result
One of the most persistent theories in the Star Wars universe may have some grounding in reality. We asked Astrophysicist Dave Minton about the 'Endor Holocaust', the fan theory that the exploding...
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Researchers figured out the best way to cut pizza
You’ve probably never given cutting a pizza much thought besides the fact that it is something you need to do before you can shove it into your face hole.Some mathematicians, on the other hand, view...
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Here's what gravitational waves are and how they could change physics forever
There's a rumor circulating that physicists may have finally discovered ripples in the fabric of spacetime known as "gravitational waves."Scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave...
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We took this photo of snowflakes on an iPhone 4S — here’s why they look so...
The shapes of the paper snowflakes you may have cut out as a kid actually exist in nature. If a snowstorm comes under just the right conditions, giant, picture-perfect snowflakes can form.Kenneth...
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4 cosmic phenomena that travel faster than the speed of light
When Albert Einstein first predicted that light travels the same speed everywhere in our universe, he essentially stamped a speed limit on it: 670,616,629 miles per hour — fast enough to circle the...
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Most of the universe is missing — here are 5 ambitious experiments that might...
Everything that we see around us — planets, stars, nebulas, and so on — only makes up about 15% of the matter in the universe.The other 85% of matter is missing. Scientists call this invisible stuff...
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