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Sorry Harry Potter: Invisibility Cloaks Actually Make You More Visible
Most invisibility cloaks under development actually make objects more visible overall, not less, scientists have revealed.This novel finding points to ways researchers can develop better invisibility...
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5 Mysteries About The Universe That Should Be Keeping Physicists Awake At Night
Scientific American editor Clara Moskowitz has a nice post showcasing some of the big questions asked by participants at a recent particle physics conference. These are the kinds of questions that make...
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Fluid Dynamics Explains Why Your Pee Splashes Out Of The Urinal
They call themselves "wizz kids."Todd Truscott and Randy Hurd of Brigham Young University's Splash Lab, a research lab studying the physics of fluids, have been using high-speed cameras to examine...
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Scientists Make An Incredible Super-Waterproof Surface [GIF]
Normally, to make water roll off surfaces we spray them with toxic chemicals, like Rust-Oleum's NeverWet, which contains acetone (nail polish remover), liquid petroleum gas, and a few additional...
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Nuclear Physicist: Cosmic Rays Could Reveal If We're Actually Living In The...
If you believe 'The Matrix' franchise, what we think is our everyday life is in fact a simulation generated by an all-powerful computer.However this idea may not simply be science fiction — "cosmic...
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Scientists Are Closer Than Ever To Solving A 100-Year-Old Mystery About...
Scientists using a telescope buried under the Antarctic ice sheet have found the first sign of high-energy neutrinos that come from outside the solar system. The discovery is a huge step to finding the...
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Why Hitting The Top Of A Beer Bottle Makes It Explode
Tapping on the top of a newly opened beer bottle can create a foamy eruption of booze — and get you disinvited from future house parties. Now, physicists have explained this beer bottle phenomenon, and...
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This Amazing Natural Phenomena Makes Ice Look Like Cotton Candy
What looks like a lost Santa beard or fallen cotton candy in the forest in the images below is actually an amazing natural phenomenon called Frost Beard or Hair Ice. It occurs because of a bacteria...
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All It Takes Is A Jolt To Turn Supercooled Water Instantly Into Slush [GIFs]
This is a great party trick, or great if you just want to pretend you're a wizard or a water-bender. You can instantly freeze an entire bottle of water. Grant Thompson put together this awesome video...
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This Amazing Glowing Liquid Flows Uphill
You can make a gravity-defying liquid just by mixing a molecule called polyethylene oxide and water. The BBC show Quite Interesting explained how it works. The mixture even glows under UV...
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Scientists Come Up Empty-Handed After Online Search For Time Travelers From...
Time travel is a mysterious and so far unproven phenomenon in physics.But just because time travel can only be observed in science fiction, doesn't mean it isn't possible: some people think that time...
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These GIFs Of Objects Being Moved By Sound Look Like Magic
Forget superconductors and magnetic fields. Scientists from the University of Tokyo have developed a way to use sound waves to levitate objects and move them around midair.When a sound wave travels...
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Why Birds Fly In A V-Formation
Migratory birds flying in a "V" shape flap their wings at precise times to take advantage of the lifting power generated by the bird in front, scientists report in a study published Jan. 15 in the...
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This Chain Of Beads Seems To Defy Gravity — And Now We Know Why
A chain of beads can defy gravity, acting like water spouting from a fountain, and now physicists reveal the secret behind this odd phenomenon.The findings could have surprising implications for...
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A Kazakh Mathematician Claims To Have Solved An Enormously Important Equation
A huge mathematical breakthrough might have just been made, but a language barrier is slowing things down.New Scientist reports that Kazakh mathematician Mukhtarbay Otelbayev may have solved an...
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Physicists Finally Made The One-Poled Magnet They've Been Missing For 80 Years
Eighty years after they were first theorized, scientists have just created an artificial magnetic monopole.Monopoles were first conceived in their modern form more than 80 years ago by Paul Dirac, one...
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Pouring Beer Into A Searing Hot Frying Pan Creates Something Amazing
What happens when you pour beer into a hot frying pan?A video that we first came across on Digg shows how the beer appears to hover over the surface of the pan, whirling around in a solid blob instead...
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Physicists Get Closer To Nuclear Fusion
A quick-hitting laser pulse has breathed new life into a multibillion-dollar effort to generate substantial amounts of fusion energy.The 192 laser beams at the $3.5 billion National Ignition Facility...
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Why Curlers Sweep The Ice
BI Answers: Why do curlers sweep the ice?Curling is one of the more unusual sports of the Winter Olympic, often drawing comparisons to shuffleboard, but played on ice.A roughly 42-pound curling rock,...
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How Artificial Snow Is Made
It practically feels like Summer in Sochi, but the Olympic games must go on.So, how do they make it feel more wintry (and actually ski-able) out on the slopes? By making their own snow. And the process...
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