The horrifying things that would happen if you fell into a black hole
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fall into a black hole? Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, who is the director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia University, New York, and...
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A giant experiment that cracked a 100-year mystery of physics just came back...
In February 2016, physicists declared the century-long search for gravitational waves was over.Einstein predicted the existence of such ripples in the fabric of spacetime in 1915, but he doubted their...
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A tiny version of Hell on Earth exists in Cleveland, Ohio
Inside a windowless concrete room in Cleveland, Ohio, scientists have built a tiny version of Hell on Earth.Called the Glenn Extreme Environments Rig (GEER), the 14-ton steel chamber can faithfully...
View ArticleWhy physicists are fascinated by Vincent van Gogh's episodes of 'psychotic...
Why physicists are fascinated by Vincent van Gogh's episodes of 'psychotic agitation.'Join the conversation about this story »NOW WATCH: Watch the trailer for the new Martin Scorsese film that took...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson explains how 'Star Wars' lightsabers could actually work
"Star Wars" lightsabers are a novel idea. They're lightweight, portable, and their laser-like beams can cut through just about anything. Unfortunately, the reality isn't so simple. Astrophysicist and...
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Echoes in gravitational waves hint at a breakdown of Einstein's theory of...
In February, astronomers made a monumental discovery. Almost 100 years after Albert Einstein first predicted them, researchers detected gravitational waves— ripples in space time that had radiated out...
View ArticleScientists launched a pie into space and it came back in almost perfect...
A meat and potato pie was sent 100,000 ft into the sky to test it to the extreme. It took off from Wigan which is well known for its pies across the UK.Science enthusiasts SentIntoSpace did it to see...
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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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Astronomers just released the largest-ever digital survey of the visible...
Scientists have made the largest ever survey of the night sky publicly available, sharing an epic data set of astronomical objects that took four years to put together.The Pan-STARRS project represents...
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China says it is testing an 'impossible' new form of space propulsion on a...
The whole world got excited last month when NASA published the first peer-reviewed paper on the "impossible" electromagnetic, or EM, Drive, which appears to somehow defy physics by producing thrust...
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The ultimate fate of the Death Star may be completely wrong
If you're reading this, chances are you've watched (or plan to watch) Disney's "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," the first of several standalone "Star Wars" movies that expands upon the main plot of the...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks there's a 'very high' chance the universe is just...
As we approach the end of 2016, a number of people might be wondering whether there's some chance that the past year was just some sort of weird dream.It turns out that if you ask the scientists whose...
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Pioneering dark-matter astronomer Vera Rubin dies at 88
Vera Rubin, a US astronomer who pioneered work on invisible dark matter in the universe and who some colleagues felt was overlooked for a Nobel Prize, has died at 88, her son said on Monday.Rubin died...
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Here's why you should never, ever visit the surface of Venus
If there's one patch of solid ground in the solar system you should never, ever visit, it's the surface of Venus.Not even hardened robotic probes are a match for conditions there. One of the last to...
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There's a theory that a hypermassive black hole spawned our universe
The most accepted theory of the origin of the universe is still the Big Bang. The theory proposes the universe started from a small singularity (the gravitational kind), then began to expand over the...
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Here's how high you could jump on other worlds in the solar system
Take a moment to jump straight up and down... Go ahead, we'll wait.How high was your jump? And how long did it last?On Earth, a good leap can clear over half a meter (1.6 feet) in a second. But hop...
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The moon is much older than anyone believed
For decades, scientists have been of the belief that the Moon, Earth's only natural satellite, was four-and-a-hal billion years old. According to this theory, the Moon was created from a fiery...
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Physicists who created 'pure nothingness' say they detected something...
According to quantum mechanics, a vacuum isn't empty at all. It's actually filled with quantum energy and particles that blink in and out of existence for a fleeting moment — strange signals that are...
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11 under-appreciated scientific concepts
The intellectual forum Edge.com recently asked a bunch of big thinkers what scientific concept ought to be more widely known. Among 206 responses, here are some highlights:The Genetic Book of the Dead...
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