New 'Dark Matter' Rap Explains What's 'Funky With The Universe'
Dark matter — the controversial idea that there's some invisible (to us) stuff out in the universe that accounts for a large amount of the total mass of the universe — has hit the big time. A nerd...
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Our Sun Is Way More Spherical Than Scientists Thought
In a strange twist of solar physics, the shape of our sun is rounder than previously thought, yet at the same time, it is also flatter — or squashed — more often, making the star wider at the middle...
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The Incredibly Frustrating Law Of Startup Physics
You may consider me an unexpected source for such a discovery, but I’d like to announce that I’ve stumbled on an as-yet undocumented law of physics. Unlike others that help us understand the age of...
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Will Science Kill God?
Over the past few centuries, science can be said to have gradually chipped away at the traditional grounds for believing in God. Much of what once seemed mysterious — the existence of humanity, the...
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How To Survive Lighting Striking Your Car
A video posted to YouTube on Sept. 17 shows a few cars cruising slowly down a rainy highway in Russia before a sudden blinding flash gives way to a streak of lightning zapping the roof of an SUV....
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Time Travel From The New Movie 'Looper' May Be Possible, Scientists Say
Time travel is a staple of science fiction, with the latest rendition showing up in the film "Looper."And it turns out jumps through time are possible, according to the laws of physics, though...
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Knowing Physics Can Help You Beat The Roulette Odds
A knowledge of physics might not be sexy, but it may help you rake in the dough: Knowing physics could help you beat Roulette, a new study published in the journal Chaos, suggests."Knowing the initial...
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Technology That Could Make Super-Precise Clocks Wins Nobel Prize In Physics
The Physics Nobel Prize was announced last night. It was awarded to Serge Haroche, of the College de France, and David Wineland, of the University of Colorado in Boulder.Their work into the quantum...
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It May Be Possible To Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light
Although Einstein's theories suggest nothing can move faster than the speed of light, two scientists have extended his equations to show what would happen if faster-than-light travel were...
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What It's Like To Work At CERN In Switzerland
Glenn Starkman has traded his comfortable life in unexpectedly wonderful Cleveland (Heights), Ohio for the excitement and alpine scenery of global diplomatic and particle physics capital Geneva,...
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This Device Can Make An Object Invisible
Hiding an object from view isn't just a trick for science fiction storytellers — researchers are getting closer to being able to hide a solid object from sight, new research suggests.Study researcher...
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Mysterious Telescope Signal Could Mean Dark Matter In The Middle Of Our Galaxy
Are there dark doings near the center of the Milky Way?That may be so when it comes to the collision of dark matter particles.Although such particles are invisible, we could still theoretically see the...
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Physicist Explains What Discovering The Higgs Boson Feels Like
Fabiola Gianotti was in mid-flow when her audience at Cern, the particle physics lab near Geneva, spotted the result they had so long hoped for amid the garish fonts of her presentation and rose to...
View ArticleHere's A Ton Of Party Tricks To Fool Your Friends And Family
Getting bored sitting around your family's house? Sick of hanging out with friends from high school? Here's a bunch of videos of awesome party tricks to keep yourself entertained, from Richard...
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Here Are 12 Scientific Findings That Were Actually Faked
1) In 2002, the BBC aired a report about German scientists who discovered that blond hair would be extinct in the next couple centuries due to being a recessive trait.Barely a year later, the New York...
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18 Complicated Scientific Ideas Explained In Plain English
A few months ago, Randall Munroe of the webcomic xkcd published a description of the Saturn V rocket using only the 1000 most frequent words in English.Under this restriction, the rocket was called...
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Gigantic Atom Smasher That Found The Higgs Boson Shuts Down For Two Years
The Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, is a humongous scientific instrument that lives at CERN, the European lab for particle physics in Geneva, Switzerland. It runs 17 miles in a giant circle underground....
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Lisa Randall Brings Theoretical Physics To The Masses
This is part of our series on the Sexiest Scientists Alive.It's refreshing to see one of the most highly-cited thinkers in theoretical physics being a good sport about topping our selection of the...
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WE'VE FOUND THE GOD PARTICLE
GENEVA (AP) — The search is all but over for a subatomic particle that is a crucial building block of the universe.Physicists announced Thursday they believe they have discovered the subatomic particle...
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Here Are The Next Huge Mysteries That Physicists Must Solve
On Thursday, researchers at CERN confirmed that they have discovered a "Higgs Boson"— the long-sought "God particle.""We make progress slowly in trying to define things, we need to be very sure of what...
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