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Why Speed Skaters Swing Their Arms Side-To-Side
BI Answers: Why do speed skaters swing their arms side-to-side?Speed skating is a fast-paced sport where athletes whip around an oval track at speeds of up to 40 mph. If you've been watching the Winter...
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A Signature Of Nuclear Bombs Has Exposed This Modern Artwork As A Fake
The identification of fakes and forgeries is a basic issue that has always raised controversy. This is unsurprising, of course — the enormous sums garnered by top paintings would turn to dust as soon...
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Scientists Have Discovered A New 'Quasiparticle'
Scientists have discovered a new quasiparticle that they've dubbed the "dropleton."Quasiparticles are a useful way to think about how real particles move through a solid. Essentially quasiparticles are...
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The Neutrino: A Guide To The Invisible Particle That Has Astronomers So Excited
This month astrophysicists found new evidence of dark matter — the so far invisible substance that scientists believe makes up 80% of our known universe.The astrophysicists detected strange X-ray...
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An Invisible Particle Could Be The Building Block For Some Incredible New...
An invisible and almost massless particle could be the building block for some incredible new technology.It's called the neutrino.Neutrinos have the potential to do amazing things like speed up global...
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New Device Charges Your Phone As You Walk
Power cords and batteries are the bane of every gadget: You either carry around the necessary cords and cables, or you hope the battery lasts. But now, researchers want to change that, by building a...
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Why Veins Look Blue
BI Answers: Why do our veins look blue? Blood is never blue — it's always some shade of red. However, veins carrying red blood may appear bluish because of how human tissue and blood reflect and absorb...
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String Field Theory Genius Explains The Coming Breakthroughs That Will Change...
String field theory co-founder Michio Kaku did not even try to explain his controversial yet undeniably brilliant cosmological theory of everything during his interview on Reddit, beyond this...
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Here’s A Simple Explanation Of How Astrophysicists Unraveled The Big Bang
Scientists have found the first direct evidence that the universe expanded incredibly quickly in the microseconds after the Big Bang.This is ground-breaking and Nobel-Prize-worthy research, if it is...
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Physicist Explains The Full Implications Of The Just-Released Evidence For...
Physicist Randol Aikin was part of a team of researchers who on Monday announced they had found direct evidence that supports Inflation Theory, the 30-year-old idea that the universe expanded faster...
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When Passion For Your Work Is A Bad Thing
The passion backlash continues.Just about every American has heard the old saw advising people to "follow their passion," so perhaps it’s inevitable that some career experts would turn to debunking...
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Some Cosmologists Are Skeptical Of The New Big Bang Finding
It was just a week ago that the news blew through the scientific world like a storm: researchers from the BICEP2 project at the South Pole Telescope had detected unambiguous evidence of primordial...
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The US Just Unveiled A New Atomic Clock That Will Keep Time For The Entire...
A new atomic clock unveiled Thursday (April 3) is three times more accurate than the one previously used to keep official time in the United States, making it the most precise timekeeper yet...
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Physicists Have Confirmed The Existence Of A Completely New And Unexpected...
Since the spectacular discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the gigantic particle accelerator outside Geneva, have suffered a bit of a drought when it...
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Why Flies Are So Hard To Swat
Catching a fly isn't easy, as anyone who's ever tried to swat one knows. Why are they so hard to catch? It could be because they maneuver like fighter jets, a new study shows.Using high-speed video...
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Why Grease Makes Paper Translucent
BI Answers: Why does grease make paper translucent?You might have wondered why a cheesesteak bag or a pizza box becomes slightly see-through when touched by its greasy contents.To understand why, we...
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This Weird, Super-Efficient Ax Solves An Engineering Problem Most People...
The ax isn't typically something we think of as modern or revolutionary. It's one of the oldest tools in the human toolbox.But some guys at Vipukirves, in Finland, have discovered a huge flaw with the...
View ArticleHere's A Ton Of Party Tricks To Fool Your Friends And Family
Getting bored sitting around your family's house? Sick of hanging out with friends from high school? Here's a bunch of videos of awesome party tricks to keep yourself entertained, from Richard...
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This Viral YouTube Video Shows You How To See Without Glasses
Ever forget your glasses and need to see something, like read a menu or a text on your phone? Here's an awesome trick posted on YouTube from Minutephysics.First you make a fist. Then open your fist...
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Experiments Confirm The Existence Of New Superheavy Element 117
Scientists first saw the element 117 at the Lawrence Berkley National Labs in 2010. Since then they have been waiting on confirmation of the discovery by other labs. A new paper reveals that a German...
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