This Amazing Video Shows The Largest Structure In The Universe
A spooky new image shows a web of bright galaxies aligned in the largest structures ever discovered in the universe.Scientists working with a telescope in Chile discovered the alignment by studying 93...
View ArticleTwo New Subatomic Particles Discovered
With its first runs of colliding protons in 2008-2013, the Large Hadron Collider has now been providing a stream of experimental data that scientists rely on to test predictions arising out of particle...
View ArticleThe Best Strategy For Surviving A Lightning Strike Goes Against Everything...
If you get caught in the middle of a big open field during a lightning storm, which of the following uniforms will be most likely to keep you safe — a thick wetsuit, a Superman costume, a medieval coat...
View ArticleEarth Is Surrounded By An 'Invisible Shield' 7,200 Miles Away That Protects...
Some 7,200 miles above Earth, an invisible shield cloaking our planet is helping to protect us from damaging, super-fast "killer" electrons, scientists have found. This Star Trek style shield stops...
View ArticleIncredible Movies Show Light In Slow-Motion
As imaged by the new compressed ultra-fast photography cameraThere's a new, ultra-fast camera that lets engineers take videos of phenomena including the movement of laser light and even...
View ArticleThis Physicist Has A Groundbreaking Idea About Why Life Exists
Why does life exist?Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning and a colossal stroke of luck.But if a provocative new theory is correct, luck may have little to do with it....
View ArticleAn Amazing New Injectable Gel Could Save Lives On The Battlefield
Blood, as the vital and life-sustaining passageway through the body, has a strong incentive to flow as easily as possible — except when somebody's badly injured.With a cut or larger bleeding injury,...
View ArticleResearchers Have Teleported Light 15 Miles — The Furthest Yet
A new distance record has been set in the strange world of quantum teleportation.In a recent experiment, the quantum state (the direction it was spinning) of a light particle instantly traveled 15.5...
View ArticleThese Two Gigantic Stars Are About To Merge Into One Supermassive Star
In the Giraffe constellation 13,000 light-years away, MY Camelopardalis is a massive binary system made up of two blue (that is, very hot and very bright) stars. They're so close, they're about to...
View ArticlePhysics And Chemistry Explain All The Different Shapes Of Snowflakes
In the Northern Hemisphere at least, the idealised vision of Christmas involves snow.Whilst no one snowflake is exactly the same as another, at least on a molecular level, scientists have none-the-less...
View ArticleHow To Predict Dangerous Solar Flares
A couple of months ago, the sun sported the largest sunspot we've seen in the last 24 years.This monstrous spot, visible to the naked eye (that is, without magnification, but with protective eyewear of...
View ArticleWhy Is Space Black?
Since there are stars and galaxies in all directions, why is space black? Shouldn’t there be a star in every direction we look?Imagine you’re in space. Just the floating part, not the peeing into a...
View ArticleA Physicist Has Revolutionized The Study Of Evolution
Michael Lässig can be certain that if he steps out of his home in Cologne, Germany, on the night of Jan. 19, 2030 — assuming he’s still alive and the sky is clear — he will see a full moon.Lässig’s...
View ArticleResearchers Are Printing Out Shape-Shifting '4D' Structures
Using a new technique known as 4D printing, researchers can print out dynamic 3D structures capable of changing their shapes over time.Such 4D-printed items could one day be used in everything from...
View ArticleA Ton Of Party Tricks To Fool And Impress 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...
View ArticleThere Are Parts Of The Universe We Will Never Be Able To See
Thanks to our powerful telescopes, there are so many places in the Universe we can see. But there are places hidden from us, and places that we’ll never be able to see.We're really lucky to live in our...
View ArticleScientists Made An Amazing Video That Shows The Short But Beautiful Life Of A...
This award-winning, high-speed video shows the epic life story of a match once lit. The scientists who made the video used a special technique, called Schlieren imaging, to highlight the flame's thick...
View ArticleThe search for supersymmetry: Come out, come out, wherever you are!
In March, after a two-year shut down for an upgrade, the world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will reopen for business. The rest of the year will see physicists biting...
View Article11 Mind-Blowing Physics Discoveries Made In 2014
With the help of highly sensitive particle detectors, some of the world's most powerful lasers, and good-old-fashioned quantum mechanics, physicists from around the world made important discoveries...
View ArticleNew Theory Suggests That We Live In The Past Of A Parallel Universe
Physicists have a problem with time.Whether through Newton’s gravitation, Maxwell’s electrodynamics, Einstein’s special and general relativity or quantum mechanics, all the equations that best describe...
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