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These Are The Mysterious Particles That Might Explain What Dark Matter Is...
Dark matter makes up about 80 percent of the universe's mass, but scientists still don't know what the strange stuff is.Scientists have proposed a number of particles as candidate components of...
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10 Things Everyone Needs To Know About Science
In the opening chapter of his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman pondered the nature of science, the laws of physics, and the best way to teach it all.He emphasized that much of the vast...
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The Brazil World Cup Ball Will Favor A Certain Kind Of Team
Teams who play with a fast, passing-focused strategy might have an advantage during this year's World Cup, based on an analysis of the ball published May 29 in the Nature journal Scientific...
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How To Tell If You Live In A Multiverse
Some theories in physics give rise to the idea of multiple universes, where nearly identical versions of the known universe exist. But if such a multiverse does exist, how would people know, and what...
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Researchers Have Created An Invisibility Cloak That Can Get Rid Of A Shadow
Scientists are one step closer to creating the long-sought after invisibility cloak. Kinda. They've figured out how to hide — or cloak — an object without it casting a shadow.Researcher Robert Schittny...
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Physicist Stephen Hawking Shows Perfect Comic Timing In This Conversation...
Earlier this week, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking out-snarked the king of snark, talk show host John Oliver.Hawking was Oliver's first guest for his "Great Minds: People Who Think Good" series...
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New Theory Suggests The Universe Shouldn't Exist
The universe shouldn't exist — at least according to a new theory.Modeling of conditions soon after the Big Bang suggests the universe should have collapsed just microseconds after its explosive birth,...
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America's Contribution To A New Generation Of Physics
Deep beneath the plains of Illinois, in a man-made cavern filled with racks of scientific equipment, someone has spray-painted a white circle onto the bare rock wall. Stand in front of it and you are...
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Finding The 'God Particle' Was Only The Beginning
Two years after making history by unearthing the Higgs boson, the particle that confers mass, physicists are broadening their probe into its identity, hoping this will also solve other great cosmic...
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By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' And That Could Be A Problem
"Today there's no legislation regarding how much intelligence a machine can have, how interconnected it can be. If that continues, look at the exponential trend. We will reach the singularity in the...
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Try This Physics Trick To Make A Soda Slushie At Home 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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Scientists Solve A Longstanding Mystery At The Heart Of Supermassive Black Holes
The supermassive black holes in the cores of most massive galaxies wreak havoc on their immediate surroundings. During their most active phases — when they ignite as luminous quasars — they launch...
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Why You Don't Fall Off The World's Tallest Waterslide
Standing taller than Niagara Falls, a new waterslide — appropriately named Verrückt, which means "insane" in German — opened on Thursday (July 10) in Kansas City, Kansas.The slide stands 168 feet 7...
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Scientists Have Recreated The Core Of Jupiter On Earth
Planets and stars form as gravitational forces pull material together. We know that the pressure within these celestial bodies must be very great, but until now, scientists didn't know what happened to...
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Why Birds Fly In A V-Formation
BI Answers: Why do birds fly in a V?Scientists have long held that birds fly in a V-formation to save energy. But it was only recently revealed how and why birds benefit from this trick.Migratory birds...
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Physicists Make A Crazy 'Cheshire Cat' Particle
The Cheshire Cat of the classic children's book "Alice in Wonderland" had a smile that could disconnect from its body. And now, in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, scientists have created quantum Cheshire...
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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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12 Stephen Hawking Quotes Reveal How A Genius Thinks
When he was 21, Stephen Hawking learned he had motor neurone disease.Doctors told him he had a few years to live.He's now 72 and one of the foremost physicists alive — a professor at the University of...
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Meet The Scientists Who Could Win This Year's Physics Nobel Prize
On October 7, a lucky few will join the ranks of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Enrico Fermi, among others, when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces this year's Physics Nobel Prize...
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How To Make An 'Invisibility Cloak' At Home For Under $100
Physicists at the University of Rochester have created an incredibly versatile cloaking device, which hides things from view. But more importantly, you can make this crazy concealing device at home for...
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