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This amazing video proves Neil deGrasse Tyson wrong about falling helicopters
Last summer, Neil deGrasse Tyson caught the ire of aviation enthusiasts all over the internet when he responded to an adorable video of a man driving his son to "get coffee."Spoiler alert: "Getting...
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A three-way collision of galaxies has given birth to a monstrous black hole
Researchers at the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope were performing a routine measurement when when they spotted something intriguing.Gases swirling in the center of a...
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The most powerful machine on Earth was just halted by a tiny weasel
The largest and most powerful atom smasher on the planet has been taken offline. And it's all thanks to a little weasel.According to internal documents, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, a...
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I found a strange connection to Albert Einstein in a professor’s 1967...
About a decade ago, I sat alone in a dim café on the main drag of Amherst, Massachusetts, preparing for a physics faculty job presentation when an urge hit me.I found a pay phone with a local phone...
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The researchers who detected Einstein’s gravitational waves just won a $3...
NEW YORK - Researchers who helped detect gravitational waves for the first time, confirming part of Albert Einstein's theory in a landmark moment in scientific history, will share a $3 million Special...
View ArticleScientists are backing up the most terrifying fan theory in the 'Star Wars'...
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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The world's brightest scientific minds posed for this 1927 photo after...
"Einstein, stop telling God what to do," physicist Niels Bohr once told Albert Einstein, who in a room full of the world's most notable scientific minds argued "God does not play dice." In 1927,...
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The most powerful atom-smasher in the world just turned back on — and it'll...
The world’s most powerful atom smasher is at it again. After spending the winter in hibernation, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17-mile-long particle collider near Geneva, Switzerland, is once...
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Big, beautiful photos of insane physics experiments chasing the 'ghost...
Scientists call it the "ghost particle."It has almost no mass, travels at essentially the speed of light, and evaded scientific confirmation for three decades.Meet the neutrino, which scientists hope...
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CalTech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll stopped by BI to talk about string theory, parallel universes, and other exciting topics he discusses in his new book, "The Big Picture: On the Origins of...
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15 Albert Einstein quotes that put you inside the mind of a true genius
Albert Einstein was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, and his contributions to human knowledge are unparalleled.The physicist conducted groundbreaking research on how our universe...
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The deepest 3-D map of the universe ever made confirms Einstein was a genius
On June 30th, 1905, Albert Einstein started a revolution with the publication of theory of Special Relativity.This theory, among other things, stated that the speed of light in a vacuum is the same for...
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Physicists have discovered a new form of light
Physicists have observed a new form of light, and it could totally change the way we understand the electromagnetic spectrum. Light is one of the most well-studied things in physics, but it's clear...
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Here's how a physcist thinks The Flash could actually run up the side of a...
If you're Barry Allen, the superhero-in-disguise and star of the CW's hit show "The Flash," you can run at blinding speeds to save lives and do battle with evil metahumans.In two previous posts, which...
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13 incredible science facts you probably didn't learn in high school
We learn about some awesome science in high school — like Einstein's theory of relativity, the periodic table, and DNA replication.The knowledge we pick up there sets the foundations for all the other...
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We needed a theoretical physicist to explain this mind-boggling moment in...
Warning: Spoilers ahead if you have not watched Sunday's "Game of Thrones" episode.In the May 22 episode of HBO's Game of Thrones, we finally learned the heartbreaking origin of Hodor's, uh, economy of...
View ArticleA radical theory in physics could solve the mystery that Einstein spent his...
Caltech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll stopped by BI to talk about string theory, parallel universes, and other exciting topics he discusses in his new book, "The Big Picture: On the Origins of...
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Physicists might have just detected a fifth force of nature
Physics can be pretty intense at times, but one of the most straightforward aspects is that everything in the Universe is controlled by just four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetic, and...
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Physicists just made Schroedinger's cat alive and dead in two places at once
Scientists have just kicked the famous Schrodinger’s cat thought experiment up a notch by cutting that poor old hypothetical cat in half, sticking him in two boxes, and confirming that he still...
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The case for black holes being nothing but holograms just got even stronger
If anything can sum up just how little we truly know about the Universe, it’s black holes.We can’t see them because not even light can escape their gravitational pull, we have no idea what they’re made...
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