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The laws of physics make a human invisibility cloak pretty much impossible
Researchers in the US have shown that there's a fundamental limit to how well cloaking devices can really work, thanks to the laws of physics.This means that, based on today's technology, while we...
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2 nearby exploding stars might have had some surprising effects on our planet
Sometimes, when a massive star reaches the end of its life, its core collapses in on itself, causing an epic explosion that can light up the entire sky.If this explosion happens close enough to our...
View ArticleHow a physicist solved one of the greatest baseball mysteries of the early...
During the first half of the 20th century, baseball fans thought that curve balls were an optical illusion. After all, how could a ball physically curve through air? Physicist Lyman Briggs at the...
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13 amazing funicular railways that defy gravity
Regular trains are okay. But where are the lofty thrills? The really wondrous locomotives are funiculars: inclined cable railways with weird cars that are slanted, tiered, or supported by a wedge in...
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A record-breaking map of 1.2 million galaxies is revealing new secrets of the...
Something like 68% of the universe is made up of dark energy, a mysterious force thought to fuel the expansion of the universe. Another 27% is dark matter, which — as CERN explains— "does not absorb,...
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Forget what you heard: Jupiter does not orbit the sun
Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, gas giant, and subject of the Juno mission, is huge. Huge.It's so huge, in fact, that it doesn't actually orbit the sun. Not exactly. With 2.5 times the mass of...
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Physicists just did the impossible, and it could change the way we look at...
Until recently, scientists didn't think it could be done. They thought the fundamental laws of physics would forbid it. But a persistent group of scientists at the University of Warsaw have now...
View ArticleEinstein's powerful equations can't explain the most mysterious point in the...
Priyamvada Natarajan is an astrophysicist at Yale University who specializes in studying the invisible universe — black holes and dark matter. We recently discussed these enigmatic places with her. You...
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Most of the universe may be trapped inside of ancient black holes
In case you haven't heard, there is a very, very big problem with the universe: About 80% of all of the stuff inside it is missing.Astronomers call this material "dark matter." They know it's out there...
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Da Vinci's 'irrelevant' doodles actually contain his most revolutionary...
Until now, art historians dismissed some doodles in Da Vinci's notebooks as "irrelevant."But a new study from Ian Hutchings, a professor at the University of Cambridge, shows that one page of these...
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Geophysicists just debunked a key assumption about how Earth's continents formed
Before it split into the continents we know today, Earth was home to just a single landmass, or "supercontinent," called Pangea.Over tens of millions of years, as the familiar story goes, these giant...
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NASA has discovered a strange warping illusion in the rings of Saturn
NASA's just released a glorious new image of everyone's favourite ringed planet, Saturn, captured by the Cassini spacecraft last month.But if you take a closer look, you'll see that two of the planet's...
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These 5 mind-melting thought experiments helped Albert Einstein come up with...
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, forever changed the landscape of science by introducing revolutionary concepts that shook our understanding of the physical world.One of...
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An artist designed a timeline of the universe that shows you when it began —...
Earth has been around for about 4.5 billion years. The universe has been around for about 13.8 billion years.Taken by themselves, those two numbers probably feel more or less the same. They're both...
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China just set aside $30 million for a controversial project designed to make...
This summer, China set aside $30 million for a controversial project that involves shooting salt-and-mineral-filled bullets into the sky.Their mission? Make it rain.The project is part of a larger...
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The universe will be a frighteningly bleak place in a 'googol' years
"Where did we come from?" and "where are we going?" are two of my favorite questions as a human being.But taking the very longest view, the answer to both turns out to be shockingly similar, according...
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All plants on Earth may owe their existence to a spooky trick of quantum physics
Plants are possibly the most fundamental life form on Earth, supplying food and oxygen to ecosystems around the planet.And yet many aspects of their leafy lives remain mysterious.Photosynthesis — the...
View ArticleForget Rio — hosting the Olympics on the Moon would produce some incredible...
With the Summer Olympic Games upon us, we will marvel at the incredible skill demonstrated by athletes from around the world. But what if those skills were amplified by the lesser gravity of the moon?...
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It's official: We haven't found a new fundamental particle
Well, we called it earlier today, and now it's official.CERN has announced that, for the present at least, we haven't detected a brand new particle capable of breaking the Standard Model of particle...
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