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Miniature black holes may be hitting Earth once every 1,000 years
First, the good news: You have not been killed by a black hole.The bad news is that it's possible the universe is teeming with microscopic black holes that formed at the dawn of time, all of them...
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We may be overlooking a critical factor in our quest to find alien life
How does life emerge in the universe?Just seat a rocky, Earth-like planet at the right distance from a sun — not too close and hot, not too far and cold — and liquid water and perhaps alien life could...
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6 ways America's national parks have dramatically shaped the history of science
Today, on August 25, 2016, the U.S. National Park Service is celebrating its 100th birthday.From the founding of the first park — Yellowstone— to today, the park service has protected and preserved...
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The Milky Way has a strange twin with a dark secret, and it might help us...
Somewhere in the universe, hundreds of millions of light years away, the Milky Way has a twin. This twin, called Dragonfly 44, is a bit smaller of the Milky Way, about 60,000 light years across, and...
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Forget what you heard: Jupiter does not orbit the sun
NASA's Juno probe just passed closer to Jupiter than any human-made craft ever. And no surprise, photos confirm that the fifth planet from the sun looks huge up close. Huge.It's so huge, in fact, that...
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A college student just proved you can actually unring a bell
Chris Nguyen doesn't believe the expression that you can't unring a bell. And he's got the equipment to prove it.A biomedical engineering student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nguyen is the...
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A space probe laboratory could kickstart life on empty planets
Scientists could jump-start life on other planets within the next 100 years.That's according to Professor Claudius Gros from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Goethe University Frankfurt, who...
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An 'impossible' thruster is about to be tested in space
An actual EM Drive is about to be launched into space for the first time, so scientists can finally figure out — once and for all — if it really is possible for a rocket engine to generate thrust...
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29 unreal images from a man who's spent 29 years inside a legendary physics lab
Seven years into his career as a newspaper photographer, Reidar Hahn had grown tired of hustling at all hours of the day and night."I was doing sports, chasing ambulances, chasing firetrucks. I was...
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Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and...
Mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson has had a career as varied as it has been successful. A former professor of physics at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, he has worked on the...
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This is what you'd have to do to build a Dyson Sphere — and why you're...
A few months ago, a paper by a team of astronomers caused a stir because it was hinted by some that their findings — several sudden large dips in a star's brightness – could be explained by aliens...
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A year ago, scientists cracked one of Einstein's greatest mysteries — now a...
A year ago Tuesday, scientists inside two giant L-shaped instruments saw a strange blip on their screens they could hardly believe.It was the first evidence of gravitational waves— ripples in the...
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Take a look inside this colossal machine where scientists propel electrons to...
By now, you might be familiar with the concept of particle accelerators through the work of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the monstrous accelerator that enabled scientists to detect the Higgs...
View ArticleAlbert Einstein’s surprising shortcoming kills this popular stereotype about...
Renowned theoretical physicist, Brian Green, tells an amusing story about the most iconic genius. Albert Einstein was revered for his intelligence, but it doesn't mean he was great at everything.Greene...
View ArticleWhy Einstein was obsessed with this unsettling vision
How did the image of a man falling to his death help us uncover some of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in physics? Columbia University's theoretical physicist Brian Greene shares how this morbid...
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99.9999999% of your body is empty space
Some days, you might feel like a pretty substantial person. Maybe you have a lot of friends, or an important job, or a really big car.But it might humble you to know that all of those things — your...
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3 British scientists won the Nobel Prize for physics for their work on...
STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - Three British-born scientists won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for revealing unusual states of matter, leading to advances in electronics and potentially...
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The Nobel Prize in physics explains why a toilet paper roll and a donut are...
Physics can be baffling for those of us who didn't take it past the basic courses, but there's no doubt that the science that aims to explain the world around us is fascinating.This week, the 2016...
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How astronomers are using virtual universes to understand our own
Astronomers face a unique problem.While scientists from most fields can conduct experiments—particle physicists build massive particle colliders to test their theories of subatomic material, and...
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Even your avocados are radioactive
Fact: The average American receives a radiation dose of about 6,200 microgray every year.Before you go running into the wilderness to escape the threat of a radioactive existence, you should know two...
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