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Five Things We Didn't Know About The Universe Before This New Map
New data from the Planck telescope indicates that the universe is 13.82 Billion years old — 100 million years older than we thought.Planck launched into space in 2009 and has been scanning the skies...
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Morgan Freeman Visited The Large Hadron Collider — Where They Found The God...
Morgan Freeman visited the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel yesterday, where CERN scientists discovered the the "God Particle,"a type of Higgs Boson.Freeman visited the LHC before hosting the...
View ArticleThe Inventor Of The Higgs Boson Hates That We Call It 'The God Particle'
Peter Higgs, who invented the Higgs Boson, is an atheist and really doesn't like it that people call his particle "God."The Telegraph noted an excerpt from an interview with Higgs:But Prof Higgs,...
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Here's Your Chance To Ask Neil deGrasse Tyson Anything
Tomorrow Business Insider will have the chance to spend time with astrophysicist, science communicator, and all-around awesome guy Neil deGrasse Tyson.He's the host of the wildly entertaining StarTalk...
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The Eccentric Life Of Noble Prize-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman
In these days of frivolous entertainments and frayed attention spans, the people who become famous are not necessarily the brightest stars. One of the biggest hits on YouTube, after all, is a video of...
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This Is What It Would Mean For Time To Come To An End
Could time come to an end? What would that even mean?Last month I gave a talk about this strange physics idea at a TEDx event in Trento, Italy, based on a Scientific American article I wrote in 2010.My...
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Atomic Clocks Are Getting Even More Accurate
The ultimate accessory in exact timekeeping — the atomic clock — is set to become even more precise, after ultrashort laser pulses were successfully transmitted across open air to help synchronize the...
View ArticleThe Physics Of The Curve Ball
Baseball season is upon us and we thought we'd share with you the awesome physics of the curve ball. Here's a great video from Tetra Research of a curve ball in flight which will help us understand the...
View ArticleThis Mesmerizing Video Will Convince You That Physics Can Be Fun
WARNING: This video will blow your mind.When a 160-foot-long chain of connected beads (like those in a mardi gras necklace) is unleashed from a jar, it loops way up and over the edge, rising higher and...
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Super Cool Your Soda To Make A Slushie In Seconds
This is a great party trick or anytime cool-down treat — by shaking up an unopened bottle of soda before cooling it for a few hours, you can make an instant slushie of any flavor you want.Here's the...
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Watch Water And Sodium React Explosively While Levitated By Sound
The video above shows a drop of water and a small piece of the element sodium colliding and causing an explosive reaction in midair.What's really great? The two particles are suspended there entirely...
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9 Facts About Quantum Computing That Will Melt Your Mind
Quantum computers aren't for browsing the Internet, checking email, or running standard software.Instead, they rely on the underpinnings of quantum mechanics, a branch of physics that's defied...
View ArticleThe History Of Physics Teaches A Lot About About Today's Marketing 'Experts'
Anyone who has studied physics and marketing can observe some very interesting similarities between the concepts of these two seemingly different disciplines. Unlike physics, however, marketing is not...
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Scientists Have Been Waiting 70 Years To See This Blob Of Goo Drop [VIDEO]
A team of scientists have finally filmed a sight they have been waiting to see for decades: a drop of extremely slow-moving pitch break off and fall.The team running the pitch-drop project at Trinity...
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Ever Wondered How Much Junk The Average Person Has On Their Computer?
Speaking at the International Conference for Quantum Technologies in Moscow yesterday afternoon, Professor Vladimir Shalaev of Purdue University shared some incredibly compelling figures on how our...
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This Sheet Of Material Might Make Supercomputers Obsolete And Could Even Turn...
Today's computers solve problems by moving electrons through circuits, but Professor Vladimir Shalaev is working on incredibly compelling technology that, once fully realized, will make this beyond...
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Forget The Science — Here's A Fun Sociological Explanation For Why We Haven't...
Last night I found myself at the Tatler Club, a posh lounge/restaurant in the Moscow Radisson, talking with Seth Lloyd, a professor at MIT and a brand-name guy in the world of quantum mechanics.As a...
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How Quantum Computing Can Help You Send Secret Emails No One Can Crack
We're learning everything we can here at the International Conference on Quantum Technologies, an event organized by the Russian Quantum Center that brought a troop of physicists from around the world...
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These Basic Physics Concepts Can Explain Why You're Losing Sales
In my previous post, I talked about physics being a good metaphor for marketing. One of the striking similarities between the two disciplines is they are both difficult to understand because most...
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The 'Quantum Internet' Could Be The Most Secure Way To Browse The Web
Quantum cryptography represents one of the most powerfully secure communication systems that science can conceive of, relying on the underpinnings of quantum mechanics to obscure data from those you...
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