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6 ways America’s national parks have dramatically impacted the history of...
On August 25, 2016, the U.S. National Park Service will celebrate its 100th birthday.From the founding of the first park — Yellowstone— to today, the park service has protected and preserved large...
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We had a theoretical physicist break down a burning question about the...
Warning: Spoilers ahead if you have not watched all of "Stranger Things.""E.T.""The Goonies.""Game of Thrones." Roll them all into one and you've got "Stranger Things," Netflix's newest hit thriller...
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How a college dropout went on to invent one of the most groundbreaking...
It was one of the biggest announcements of 2016. Using two gigantic detectors, scientists were able to detect something amazing — ripples in the fabric of spacetime generated by two colliding black...
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The Department of Energy watched 'Stranger Things' on Netflix, and it wants...
Warning: Major spoilers ahead for "Stranger Things."If you've seen Netflix's hit show "Stranger Things," you know the entire series revolves around a mysterious government facility deep in the woods of...
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This particle could explain why you exist — but 1 billion tons of Antarctic...
Physicists are hunting for a particle that they hope could clue us in on some of the biggest mysteries in the universe. Questions like: Why the heck do we exist?But after scouring an entire year’s...
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Stardust trapped deep within the ocean reveals a 2.6-million-year-old mystery
A little under three million years ago, a massive star exploded in our galaxy about 300 light years away.This supernova was so close to our planet that, depending on where it went off, our evolutionary...
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A giant solar storm nearly triggered a nuclear war in 1967
Cold War history is rife with close calls that nearly led to nuclear holocaust.In September 1983, for example, sunlight reflecting off a patch of clouds fooled a Soviet missile-warning system into...
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Here’s how the ‘human fly’ scaled the Trump Tower without falling
There are some things human beings should just never try. Riding on the back of a shark or drinking a glass of Drano, for example.And let’s be very clear. Climbing the Trump Tower is one of those...
View ArticleHere’s what happens when you fire a gun underwater
If you fire a gun underwater, does it act the same as it does on land? Follow TI: On FacebookJoin the conversation about this story »
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The pool itself has a huge effect on how fast Michael Phelps and Katie...
Much of what makes Katie Ledecky and Michael Phelps the best and fastest swimmers in the world is up to them.They've done the training and developed the techniques that propel them through the pool....
View ArticleHow science could help predict who wins an Olympic sprint before it even begins
Richard Brandt, a former NYU professor of sports physics, explains how to predict who will win a sprint race before it even begins.Follow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the conversation about this story »
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This ghostly particle could explain why you exist
Physicists are hunting for a particle that they hope could clue us in on some of the biggest mysteries in the universe. Questions like: Why the heck do we exist?But after scouring an entire year’s...
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Scientists levitated something the size of a golf ball using only sound waves
Researchers have successfully levitated a 50-mm (2-inch) solid polystyrene ball using nothing but high frequency sound waves.Although scientists have been able to acoustically levitate small objects...
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Evidence of Stephen Hawking's famous prediction about black holes was just...
Jeff Steinhauer, a physicist at Technion University in Israel, has created an acoustic black hole and observed particles slipping out of its grasp, providing the strongest evidence to date of one of...
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The Olympics are the perfect way to see how the laws of physics work in the...
When you think of Olympic athletes training to compete, you probably don't imagine them in front of a chalkboard trying to understand things like angular momentum (that's how objects — or people —...
View ArticleListen to Albert Einstein talk — and get closer than ever before to the...
You know what he looks like. You've probably learned about his equations and scientific theories. But have you ever heard him speak?Now you can rock out to the smooth, Germanic jams of Albert...
View ArticleThe most powerful physics machine on Earth may have found something that...
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The edge of the universe is closer than scientists previously thought
The visible universe just shrunk by 320 million light-years in all directions, updating a famous calculation that physicists first made 13 years ago.If you're trying to calculate the size of the...
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A hidden force could hold the key to unlocking the mysterious dark universe
The universe is governed by four fundamental forces.There’s gravity and electromagnetism, and then the lesser known weak and nuclear forces.But a group of theoretical physicists at the University of...
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The best explanation yet for dark matter may be in trouble
Astronomers have a very big problem on their hands: Four-fifths of all the stuff in the universe can't be found, a cosmic mystery known as "dark matter."People have searched for tiny, hypothetical...
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