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A space junk disaster is a real possibility, and surprisingly little is...
China's school-bus-size Tiangong-1 modular space station is expected to fall to Earth in a fiery blaze on or around Easter Sunday.The US government is tracking the orbit of Tiangong-1 and about 23,000...
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'His name will live in the annals of science:' Friends and family gather for...
The funeral for British physicist Stephen Hawking was held on Saturday in Cambridge. Hawking died at the age of 76 on March 14 after living for decades with a degenerative disease. Hawking's ashes...
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Scientists are solving the alien origins of Europium, a strange metal found...
Neutron stars that crash together in space forge valuable metals like silver, gold, and platinum.Some heavy periodic elements may be created almost exclusively by such cosmic crashes.Europium, one of...
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15 Albert Einstein quotes that reveal the mind of a true genius
Albert Einstein died on this day 63 years ago, but he remains one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. His contributions to human knowledge are unparalleled.The physicist conducted groundbreaking...
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A new Russian video may show a 'doomsday machine' able to trigger 300-foot...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in early 2018 that Russia was developing a nuclear-powered torpedo that carries a "massive"nuclear weapon.Videos posted to the Russian Ministry of Defense's...
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Stephen Hawking's final research was just published, and it could help us...
Stephen Hawking's final paper was just published in the Journal of High Energy Physics.The paper predicts there are not infinite parallel universes in the multiverse, but instead a limited number.These...
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Scientists say the Ewoks in 'Star Wars' should have suffered a gruesome fate...
There is something gravely wrong with the ultimate fate of the Death Star, a moon-size weapon in the "Star Wars" movies, and physicists think you should know about it.The Death Star meets its final...
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Each year the government asks 10 simple questions to test the public's...
Every two years, the National Science Foundation is required to tell the president how the US is doing in regard to science and engineering."As economies worldwide grow increasingly knowledge-intensive...
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Trippy photos show how beautiful water can look when it's blasted with sound
After a long work day, most of us happily collapse into a couch and binge-watch our favorite show.But Linden Gledhill, a Philadelphia-based pharmaceutical biochemist, retreats to his basement lab....
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The shower curtain keeps sticking to you because of the 'Bernoulli Effect' –...
Having your shower curtain stick to you can be a pesky nuisance.The reason behind this annoying phenomenon is the "Bernoulli Effect".The physics behind this effect also explains, in part, how airplanes...
View ArticleThe fascinating way helium changes your voice
Inhaling helium and talking like Daffy Duck is a classic party trick. But not many know how helium works. Helium is much lighter than air, so sound waves move much faster through the gas. This...
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The longest total lunar eclipse in a century is about to happen — here's how...
A total lunar eclipse, or blood moon, will happen overnight on July 27.The eclipse will be colored orange-red due to sunlight passing through Earth's atmosphere and bouncing off the moon.The eclipse is...
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The total lunar eclipse would look stunning from the moon — Earth's sunrise...
The longest total lunar eclipse or blood moon in a century will happen overnight on July 27.From the moon, Earth will look like it's surrounded by a ring of fire — with its sunset and sunrise connected...
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NASA once envisioned life after Earth in these fantastical floating cities
This Sunday, July 29, 2018, marks the 60th anniversary of NASA's establishment as a US government agency, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the 1958 National Aeronautics and Space Act, its...
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NASA is about to launch a $1.5 billion probe to 'touch the sun' and study our...
NASA plans to launch a robot on Saturday that will fly closer to the sun than any mission in history.The Parker Solar Probe will use a high-tech heat shield to avoid being destroyed.The probe is...
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I won the Ig Nobel prize by trying to answer the question 'are cats liquid?'...
A liquid is traditionally defined as a material that adapts its shape to fit a container, and under certain conditions, cats seem to fit this definition.Reformulating the question "are cats liquid?"...
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The American flags on the moon are disintegrating
Astronauts on each of NASA's six Apollo missions planted an American flag on the moon.Powerful sunlight and a lack of atmosphere to filter it have likely bleached all of the Apollo flags white.As NASA...
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Wikipedia rejected an entry on a physics Nobel laureate right up until she...
Dr. Donna Strickland jointly won the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday, but she did not have a Wikipedia page until then.As recently as May, a Wikipedia entry for Strickland was rejected as it failed...
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The winners of the Nobel prize in physics made light beams into tools —...
The 2018 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to scientists who developed tools made from light beams.One half of the prize went to Arthur Ashkin for his work on optical tweezers, which are beams of...
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