This 3D-printed sundial tells the time digitally
Julien Coyne invented a digital sundial. Sundials usually cast a line or triangle to indicate the hour. This one is designed so that when light passes through, it displays the shapes of numbers. And it...
View ArticleThis mind-melting thought experiment of Einstein's reveals how to manipulate...
Einstein reveals how to manipulate time.Produced by Delano Samuels and Jessica Orwig. Illustrations by Dragan Radovanovic.Follow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the conversation about this story »
View ArticleThere’s a math exhibit where people can smoothly ride a tricycle with square...
The Math Midway traveling exhibit made tricycles with square wheels. They're designed so you can ride them smoothly on a petal-shaped floor. Because the floor uses catenary curves, it feels like riding...
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Do battle with history's greatest scientists in this addictive browser game
Many famous scientists in history lived during different eras, different locations, and studied vastly different areas of science.But that doesn't mean we wouldn't want to see them smackdown in classic...
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Take a look inside the most powerful physics machine on Earth
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the most impressive particle colliders that's ever been built, and the people who run it have a...
View ArticleThis anecdote about Isaac Newton losing millions in the stock market teaches...
Isaac Newton was brilliant, but even he made a big investing mistake.Join the conversation about this story »NOW WATCH: 'Batman v Superman' is a complete trainwreck, and director Zack Snyder is to blame
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Watch machines crush your favorite everyday objects into smithereens
The Hydraulic Press Channel is amassing millions of views on YouTube by giving the people what they want: videos of a bunch of stuff getting crushed.They've smashed a golf ball, a Barbie, and enough...
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Scientists just discovered a new state of matter
Researchers have just discovered evidence of a mysterious new state of matter in a real material.The state is known as 'quantum spin liquid' and it causes electrons — one of the fundamental,...
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Scientists have discovered a bizarre new state of matter in a perfectly flat...
Researchers have just discovered evidence of a mysterious new state of matter in a real material. The state is known as 'quantum spin liquid' and it causes electrons — one of the fundamental,...
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Dumpster-diving outside of the world's largest physics lab is part of a...
Last month, Max Liboiron, a professor of discard studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, visited the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland to check out the world...
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The internet thinks these 3 math equations are the most beautiful in the world
The internet is stuffed with online quizzes and surveys, ranging from which "Friends" character you are to who you're about to vote for.But the BBC recently asked something more profound of its...
View ArticleAn artist tilted a couch upright and created a motor that keeps it balancing...
For Balance From Within, artist Jacob Tonski rescued a 170-year-old couch that was headed for the trash. He tilted it upright and stood it on one leg. He then created a motor that senses when the couch...
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Why it’s impossible to prove that we don't live in a simulation
If the crowd at the American Museum of Natural History's sold out 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate hoped for a conclusive answer to the topic question — "Is the Universe a Simulation?"— they were out...
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9 bold predictions made by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner
At 54, Russian-born billionaire Yuri Milner has earned his place among the elite venture capitalists.He’s gotten in on the ground floor of some of the biggest companies in tech, elevating his new worth...
View ArticlePhysicists came up with a simple way you can outperform supercomputers at...
Gamers are great at solving new problems. That’s what a group of physicists at Aarhus University discovered after getting 300 gamers to play a game they developed.Produced by Emmanuel Ocbazghi....
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NASA has detected a burst of light that might be linked to one of the most...
In September, physicists made a monumental discovery that opened up a new window to the universe.Using equipment called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), the researchers...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks there's a 'very high' chance the universe is just...
We trust the scientists around us to have the best grasp on how the world actually works.So at this year's 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History, which addressed...
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This bizarre experiment is bringing us closer than ever to solving a...
On the flanks of the Sierra Negra volcano in Central Mexico, nearly 14,000 feet above sea level, there is a giant field of water tanks. Three hundred water tanks, to be exact, occupying a space that's...
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Physicists might soon be able to prove one of Stephen Hawking's theories on...
Some 42 years ago, renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking proposed that not everything that comes in contact with a black hole succumbs to its unfathomable nothingness.Tiny particles of light...
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A physicist says The Flash must have these extra superpowers or he'd die
Barry Allen was just a shy Central City crime scene investigator. Until, that is, a particle accelerator accident transformed him into a super-powerful force: The Flash.In the hit TV show "The Flash,"...
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