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A Stunning New AI Has Supposedly Achieved Sentience
But just how self-aware is the tool we call Claude 3 Opus?
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Scientists Make Breakthrough in Warping Time at Smallest Scale Ever
Scientists were able to measure time dilation at a distance of just a millimeter, about the width of a pencil tip.
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Astrophysicist claims he has cracked the code for time travel
After years of research, Professor Mallett claims to have finally developed the revolutionary equation for time travel.
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Paradox-Free Time Travel is Mathematically Possible: Study | Sci.News
Time travel with free will is logically possible in our Universe without any paradox, according to new research from the University of Queensland.
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Top-secret X-37B space plane will execute 'never-before-seen maneuvers' on its descent to Earth | Live Science
Although it isn't clear what the X-37B is used for, its new maneuver would help it to evade detection and perform undetected low-passes over Earth.
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Starship vs. Saturn V: What's the Difference?
Discover the key differences between SpaceX's Starship and NASA's Saturn V, including design, purpose, and technological advancements.
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We FINALLY Understand Why Tardigrades Refuse to Die - YouTube
We've know tardigrades are tough, but new research finally tells us how they do it. Thanks to our sponsor - Doro! Check out the Doro S100 on sale now. Enjoy...
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Scientists Just Spotted Evidence of ‘Negative Time’
But don’t dust off the DeLorean quite yet.
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A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality | MIT Technology Review
Back in 1961, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Eugene Wigner outlined a thought experiment that demonstrated one of the lesser-known paradoxes of quantum mechanics. The experiment shows how the strange nature of the universe allows two observers—say,
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New Support for Alternative Quantum View | Quanta Magazine
An experiment claims to have invalidated a decades-old criticism against pilot-wave theory, an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics that eliminates the…
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New 'impossible' discovery could make computers 400 times faster
Researchers have created one-way superconductivity, paving the way for superconductors to supersede semiconductors in electronics.
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What are wormholes? An astrophysicist explains these shortcuts through space-time
An astrophysicist explains what wormholes are and how these theoretical space-time tunnels have popped up in the solutions to some equations.
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Scientists are using quantum squeezing to push the limits of their sensors | MIT Technology Review
Physicists are engineering where uncertainty shows up in quantum systems, which has applications for detecting gravitational waves, and potentially more mainstream uses, including quantum computers, navigation, and microscopy.
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Quantum tunnels allow particles to break the light-speed barrier - Earth.com
In the fascinating realm of quantum physics, particles seem to defy the laws of classical mechanics. One such area is quantum tunneling.
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Graviton: We've glimpsed something that behaves like a particle of gravity | New Scientist
Gravitons, the particles thought to carry gravity, have never been seen in space – but something very similar has been detected in a semiconductor
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Octopuses rewire their brains to adapt to climate | Popular Science
Two-spot octopuses adapt to seasonal shifts in temperature by producing different neural proteins. They accomplish this by editing their RNA.
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Chip that entangles four photons opens up possibility of inviolable quantum encryption
Unlike classical encryption, which relies on mathematical algorithms, quantum encryption assures security based on physical principles. Detection of espionage or interference is guaranteed by unavoidable alteration of the ...
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'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem
You enter a cave. At the end of a dark corridor, you encounter a pair of sealed chambers. Inside each chamber is an all-knowing wizard. The prophecy says
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A New Supercomputer Will Operate at Speeds 1,000 Times Faster Than the Fastest Modern Computer
Once online in 2030, it will make current speeds feel like dial-up.
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Real-Life Tractor Beam Tech Could Revolutionize Medicine
Scientists have taken steps toward building a real-life tractor beam, promising less invasive medical procedures and transforming healthcare.
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New Hidden 'Edge State' May Lead to Practically Infinite Energy
Scientists found quantum edge states in ultracold sodium atoms, possibly leading to highly efficient energy systems with minimal loss.
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A Super Harvest Blood Moon and Partial Lunar Eclipse Are Coming Tuesday - CNET
Get ready: Just in time to kick off the spooky season, the moon will be bigger, brighter and tinged red.
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This is a wonderful answer for this question - Art Of Mathematics
Home -> Solved problems -> e^pi or pi^e (mathrm{e}^{pi}>pi^{mathrm{e}};;;or;;;mathrm{e^{pi } < pi ^ { mathrm { e } }}) Solution Let's solve the
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Physicists find superconductor behavior at temperatures once thought 'impossible' | Live Science
Scientists have observed an unexpected new behavior in a superconducting material. If physicists can figure out the cause, it could help them to find room-temperature superconductors.
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Chip that entangles four photons opens up possibility of inviolable quantum encryption
Unlike classical encryption, which relies on mathematical algorithms, quantum encryption assures security based on physical principles. Detection of espionage or interference is guaranteed by unavoidable alteration of the ...
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William Henry Pickering: The Great Celestial Observer
In this installment of ‘Profiles in History,’ we meet a brilliant Bostonian astronomer who gave people a close view of the solar system.
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Scientists create weird 'time crystal' from atoms inflated to be hundreds of times bigger than normal | Live Science
By blowing atoms up to several hundred times their size, researchers have been able to make another type of oddly-behaving time crystal.
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Why Almost Everyone Gets the Monty Hall Probability Puzzle Wrong | Scientific American
How to finally wrap your mind around the uniquely counterintuitive Monty Hall dilemma
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Longstanding physics mystery may soon be solved, thanks to Einstein and quantum computing | Live Science
The nature of quantum entanglement remains an outstanding problem in physics. But Albert Einstein's theories, along with insights from quantum computing, could finally put the mystery to rest.
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Star Trek's Science Advisor On How Starfleet Quietly Fixed Relativity
Could warp drive actually work? According to Dr. Erin Macdonald, Star Trek's science advisor, the answer is yes. But a recent moment in 'Discovery' Season 5 finally fixed an old Star Trek problem.
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SpaceX’s Starship may mess up the lunar surface | Popular Science
A Starship landing on the moon could contaminate nearby ice.
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Apple could allow audio chat with no cell or WiFi needed
Apple is developing technology that would allow any number of willing people in close proximity to start an audio chat, using only an iPhone and a headset like AirPods, with no WiFi or cell service needed.
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World's largest nuclear fusion reactor is finally completed. But it won't run for another 15 years. | Live Science
ITER, a $28 billion fusion reactor in France, has finally had its last magnetic coil installed. But the reactor itself won't fire up fully until 2039 at the earliest.
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Shattered Russian satellite forces ISS astronauts to take shelter in stricken Starliner capsule | Live Science
ISS astronauts, including the stranded Butch Willmore and Sunni Williams, have sought refuge inside their docked spacecraft after the Resurs-P1 satellite splintered apart in orbit.
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NASA predicts 'once-in-a-lifetime event' this summer – 5 things you need to know
NASA scientists say an impending nova event this summer will be so bright that it can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. "It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event," NASA said.
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The 1st 'major lunar standstill' in more than 18 years is about to occur. Here's how to see it. | Live Science
A major lunar standstill is about to occur. The phenomenon happens every 18.6 years when the moon rises and sets at its most extreme points on the horizon, while also climbing to its highest and lowest point in the sky.
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SpaceX reveals new sleek spacesuits ahead of upcoming historic mission | Popular Science
The Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suits will be worn during the Polaris Dawn spacewalk and feature HUD visor displays.
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Capacitor Breakthrough: 19-Fold Increase in Energy Storage Potential
The latest advancement in capacitor technology offers a 19-fold increase in energy storage, potentially revolutionizing power sources for EVs and devices.
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Tweak to Schrödinger's cat equation could unite Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, study hints | Live Science
Physicists have proposed modifications to the infamous Schrödinger's cat paradox that could help explain why quantum particles can exist in more than one state simultaneously, while large objects (like the universe) seemingly cannot.
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A Paradigm Shift in RAM Is About to Make Computing Unstoppable
Scientists unlocked the secret to blazing-fast memory.
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North American P-51 Mustang | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
The P-51 Mustang was a long-range fighter that could escort heavy bombers to Berlin and back. The Museum's P-51 has the markings of the Tuskegee "Red Tails."
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'Light Speed' Electrons Discovered Moving in 4 Dimensions For The First Time : ScienceAlert
An elusive behavior of electrons has finally been isolated from more mundane electron activity in a real-world material.
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Billions of cicadas are about to emerge, creating a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle
Two large broods of cicadas in the Midwest and southeastern U.S. are set to surface simultaneously—something that hasn't happened in over 200 years.
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See the X-59, NASA's new supersonic jet
NASA’s new supersonic jet, the X-59, goes so fast it can’t have a windshield. Here’s how pilots will fly it.
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How the SR-71 Was Retired for Good (Even Though It Was the Fastest Plane Ever)
X It could cross continents in just a few hours, and at 80,000 feet, the Blackbird could survey 100,000 square miles of the ground below per hour. No other U.S. Air Force aircraft could fly faster or higher than the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird,” and on its
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Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’
Here’s visible proof for the first time ever.
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Time is "elastic": Why time passes faster atop a mountain than at sea level - Big Think
The idea of 'absolute time' is an illusion. Physics and subjective experience reveal why.
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Quantum batteries could charge by breaking our understanding of time
Causality is key to our experience of reality: dropping a glass, for example, causes it to smash, so it can’t smash before it’s dropped. But scientists have now demonstrated how that understanding of time can be violated to charge a quantum battery.
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One of the brightest stars in the sky will 'blink out' on Dec. 12. Here's how to watch. | Live Science
Betelgeuse, the most famous red supergiant star and one of the sky's brightest, will disappear for up to 12 seconds during an ultra-rare occultation by asteroid 319 Leona.
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Newly discovered comet visible in night sky this weekend
A comet called Nishimura discovered just a month ago could be visible to the naked eye this weekend, offering stargazers a once-in-a-437-year chance to observe the celestial visitor.
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Yes, You Can Control Your Dreams: The Strange Science of Lucid Dreaming | Discover Magazine
Once dismissed as a new age fad, lucid dreaming has gained attention as a possible performance enhancer and therapeutic tool.
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NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour Will Stand Tall Once More
The trusty old Shuttle is being made into a museum display, and it'll be the first time the 20-story spacecraft is fully stacked outside of a NASA facility.
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Have Scientists Solved Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Paradox?
Scientists say they solved the Hawking information paradox, which states that information can neither be emitted from a black hole or preserved inside forever.
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Entangled quantum circuits further disprove Einstein's concept of local causality
A group of researchers led by Andreas Wallraff, Professor of Solid State Physics at ETH Zurich, has performed a loophole-free Bell test to disprove the concept of "local causality" formulated by Albert Einstein in response to quantum mechanics.
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Google Quantum AI braids non-Abelian anyons for the first time
Our intuition tells us that it should be impossible to see whether two identical objects have been swapped back and forth, and for all particles observed to date, that has been the case. Until now.
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Scientists Actually Built a Working Tractor Beam: How It Works
Scientists built a working tractor beam—the first example of one that pulls objects visible to the naked eye. That's a huge deal.
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Scientists believe they have discovered a portal to the Fifth Dimension
In a new study, scientists say that a particle that links to a fifth dimension can explain dark matter. (The previous article has been up...
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Voyager 2 Gets a Life-Extending Power Boost in Deep Space | WIRED
The NASA team hopes the iconic spacecraft and its twin can continue taking data beyond the solar system past their 50th birthdays.
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How a Tardigrade "Micro Animal" Became Quantum Entangled with Superconducting Qubit | Discover Magazine
Physicists have extended the conditions in which life can exist further than ever before.
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First Demonstration of Energy Teleportation | Discover Magazine
It's not just information that can move from one point in the universe to another, without passing through the space in between.
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Reflection Questions - As assigned in Nature's Prose, Spring 2012 - by Heather Heying
Eleven years ago, I taught Nature’s Prose, a full-time academic program for first-year college students. Field trips, curricular activities, and readings were diverse and unusual, and assignments included five sets of “Reflection Questions” on which, every second Thursday, I asked students to think and write.
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This goofy-looking fish was found 27,000 feet deep | Popular Science
'We have spent over 15 years researching these deep snailfish; there is so much more to them than simply the depth.'
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Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People’s Minds - UT News
News, stories, and opinions on science, technology, health, education, business, policy, campus life, and more from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Watch a rocket-powered spaceplane fly for the first time
After flying for the first time on March 29, Dawn Aerospace’s rocket-powered spaceplane, the Mk-II Aurora, flew again the very next day.
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Alignment of galaxies millions of light years away supports general relativity
Scientists from research institutions including Kyoto University have confirmed that the intrinsic alignments of galaxies have characteristics that allow it to be a powerful probe of dark matter and dark energy on a cosmological scale.
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What is the double-slit experiment, and why is it so important?
The double-slit experiment is one of the most important demonstrations in quantum physics, and it completely upends what we thought we knew about reality.
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Radical NASA Propulsion Concept Could Reach Interstellar Space in Under 5 Years : ScienceAlert
A newly proposed propulsion system could theoretically beam a heavy spacecraft to outside the confines of our Solar System in less than 5 years – a feat that took the historic Voyager 1 probe 35 years to achieve.
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Leonardo da Vinci Was Jewish - Tablet Magazine
Italian historian Carlo Vecce set out to debunk rumors of da Vinci’s foreign origins, but a newly discovered document changed his mind
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How to see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus at the same time
A rare planetary alignment has arrived, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to know where and when to look.
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Scientists find secret ingredient in da Vinci paintings
It was originally believed to have been from contamination, but researchers now say it was intentional.
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‘First To the Moon’: Documentary Commemorates Apollo 8, First Flight to Leave Earth Orbit – PJ Media
Apollo 11 was the epitome of a world-defining event. Everybody who was alive in 1969 remembers Neil Armstrong saying, “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Similarly, the ne...
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How a magician-mathematician revealed a casino loophole - BBC Future
When a gang of gambling cheats sussed out how to beat the house, they inadvertently highlighted a loophole from a shuffled deck. It took a magician-turned-mathematician to reveal how.
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Salicylates and Pandemic Influenza Mortality, 1918–1919 Pharmacology, Pathology, and Historic Evidence
Abstract. The high case-fatality rate—especially among young adults—during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic is incompletely understood. Although late deaths sho
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Precise characterization of a corridor-shaped structure in Khufu’s Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons - Nature Communications
Khufu’s Pyramid is one of the largest archaeological monuments in the world, and still contains unexplored voids. Here, the authors use cosmic-ray muon radiography in multiple positions to precisely characterize one of these inner structures called the
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NASA Releases Stunning 4K Video of Apollo 13 Views of the Moon, Ending All Conspiracy Theories - news.scienceclub
NASA has developed a stunning view of the Moon using data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and combined with the views recorded by Apollo 1
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Here's What We Know About Lockheed Martin's Mysterious SR-72
In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane.
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Scientists Actually Built a Working Tractor Beam: How It Works
Scientists built a working tractor beam—the first example of one that pulls objects visible to the naked eye. That's a huge deal.
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Scientists discover anti-aging gene that rewinds heart age by 10 years
Researchers from England and Italy have discovered an anti-aging gene in a population of centenarians that can halt decay in heart function and rewind the heart's biological age.
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Nuclear reactor mystery solved, with no need for new particles | Science | AAAS
One piece of evidence for weird sterile neutrinos evaporates
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How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits | Quanta Magazine
The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program. Its pursuit has surprising connections to some of the most profound…
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Video Shows Human Brain Cells in Dish Teaching Themselves to Play a Videogame
In Scientists were, for the first time, able to show that 800,000 living brain cells trapped in a petri dish can be taught how to play the videogame Pong.
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The paradox of light goes beyond wave-particle duality - Big Think
Einstein helped us understand the dual nature of light, which can act as both a particle and a wave. But, light continues to perplex us.
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Invisibility shield: A UK-based company designs invisibility shields that you can buy today
Invisibility shields were an internet rage a few years ago. Now, they are a reality that you can get your hands on.
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A Physicist Came Up With Math That Shows 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Is Plausible : ScienceAlert
No one has yet managed to travel through time – at least to our knowledge – but the question of whether or not such a feat would be theoretically possible continues to fascinate scientists.
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Man Cut His Helicopter Engines Midair to Prove Neil deGrasse Tyson Wrong
A YouTuber decided to show that a helicopter can land safely when the engine is switched off, contrary to what Neil deGrasse Tyson suggests.
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Scientists Found Something Extraordinary In A Hole On Their Way To The Center Of The Earth
Working across three decades, Soviet scientists dug the deepest hole on planet Earth. But tens of thousands of feet down, they stumbled across some unusual things...
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Why the [expletive] can’t we travel back in time? | Ars Technica
If the inability to time travel were a fundamental part of our Universe, you’d expect equally fundamental physics behind that rule.
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Kids are fast learners—this mechanism could be why | Popular Science
Differences in GABA concentrations can tell scientists more about why young learners have an advantage.
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New brain implants ‘read’ words directly from people’s thoughts
In the lab, brain implants can translate internal speech into external signals, technology that could help people who are unable to speak or type.
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This is Huge: Scientists Successfully 'Warp' Time In The Lab, Based On Einstein's Theory
Recently, scientists were able to "warp" time on the smallest scale ever. Time may be warped in the presence of high gravitational fields/high speeds,
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The General Relativity Rabbit Hole: Unraveling Space, Time and the Fourth Dimension - CNET
Parsing Albert Einstein's theory of our universe -- an idea that's utterly mind-bending, yet seemingly shatterproof.
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Scientists Fed the Fibonacci Sequence Into a Quantum Computer and Something Strange Happened
By shooting a laser pulse imitating the Fibonacci Sequence into qubits, physicists created a new phase of matter far better at maintaing a quantum state.
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Quantum Experiment Breaks Reality By Seeing Two Versions Of Reality Existing At The Same Time - Blog The Space Academy
We are aware of how skewed our perception of reality is. How we see the world is shaped by our senses, our societies, and our knowledge.
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A total lunar eclipse is expected to occur next week
The total eclipse will take place on Nov. 8 of this year, NASA says.
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How can you see Jupiter tonight?
Jupiter will come within its closest point of Earth in nearly sixty years today, giving an excellent opportunity for amateur stargazers to see the largest planet in the solar system.
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Einstein's Mind-Bending Theory of Relativity Passes Yet Another Huge Test - CNET
A satellite has conducted the "most precise test" on a cornerstone of the physicist's famous theory.
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Medieval mass burial shows centuries-earlier origin of Ashkenazi genetic bottleneck
In 2004, construction workers in Norwich, U.K., unearthed human skeletal remains that led to a historical mystery—at least 17 bodies at the bottom of a medieval well. Using archaeological records, historical documents, and ancient DNA, British researchers
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Danish Physicist Lene Hau was Able to Slow Down the Speed of Light to 38 mph and was Eventually Able to Manipulate it
The speed of light is a universal physical constant that is vital in several aspects of physics. Light travels at a constant and finite speed of 186,000
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The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End | Quanta Magazine
In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information.
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Loch Ness Monster Existence 'Plausible' After Incredible Discovery
A dig has unearthed evidence that might make the existence of the mythical creature seem less farfetched
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An Antimatter Experiment Shows Surprises Near Absolute Zero | WIRED
An experiment conducted on hybrid matter-antimatter atoms has defied researchers’ expectations.
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Scientists Convert Pure Energy Into Matter And Antimatter, Creating New Physics - Siamtoo
Recent research published in Physical Review Letters proves that matter and antimatter can be created from energy, specifically light particles (photons). Thus, it provides a magnificently physical illustration of the world’s most famous equation: E=mc2.
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Physicists: We Are On The Verge Of Discovering Fifth Dimension And It Will Change Everything We Know About Physics - Sia
Scientists are sometimes questioned if they conduct fresh experiments in the lab or continue to repeat previous ones for which they have certain outcomes. While most scientists undertake the former, scientific advancement also relies on conducting the lat
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NASA Woke Up Voyager 1 From 13 Billion Miles Away, And The Spacecraft Actually Signalled Back - Siamtoo
Have you ever tried starting a car that’s been sitting unused for a couple of decades? There’s no guarantee that will even respond, let alone actually start up. That makes the feat NASA achieved just a few days ago even more impressive. The space agency c
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Strange new phase of matter created in quantum computer acts like it has two time dimensions
By shining a laser pulse sequence inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have created a remarkable, never-before-seen phase of matter. The phase has the benefits of two time dimensions despite there still being on
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Brain practices new tasks while people sleep, study finds | Brown University
A new study associated with the BrainGate consortium offered significant clues about how humans learn and form long-term memories; the findings could provide insights for developers of assistive tools for people with paralysis.
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Physicists prove the existence of two-dimensional particles called 'anyons’
This year, physicists gave us an early view of a third kingdom of quasiparticles that only arise in two dimensions.
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Paradox-free time travel is 'logically' possible, say physicists - Big Think
Grandfathers, take heart. You'll survive the paradox that's been gunning for you since the 1930s.
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How to understand Einstein's equation for general relativity - Big Think
Mathematically, it is a monster, but we can understand it in plain English.
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Einstein proved right by flying clocks around the world - Big Think
Time isn't the same for everyone, even on Earth. Flying around the world gave Einstein the ultimate test. No one is immune from relativity.
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Most complete baby mammoth in North America is FOUND | Daily Mail Online
The calf, named 'Nun cho ga', meaning 'big baby animal' in the Hän language, was frozen in permafrost, resulting in its remains being mummified. Experts found it is a female.
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The world’s largest bacteria is visible to the naked eye
Researchers have discovered the biggest bacteria known to science. T. magnifica is 50 times bigger than the next-biggest known bacteria.
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40 Mandela Effect Examples - What Is The Mandela Effect Definition
This list of mandela effect examples will blow your mind. Here's everything you need to know about the Mandela Effect, false memory (and the concept that we might be living in a parallel universe).
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Alien Antimatter Crashes into Earth
It came from outer space. And it was tiny.
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Leonardo da Vinci could visually flip between dimensions, neuroscientist claims - Big Think
A neuroscientist argues that da Vinci shared a disorder with Picasso and Rembrandt.
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Total lunar eclipse: How to watch Sunday's rare "super flower blood moon" - CBS News
A spectacular full moon is fast approaching. Here's everything you need to know to see it.
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Proof of Solar Thermal Propulsion: The Key to Interstellar Travel
Engineers are prototyping a rocket design that could unlock interstellar travel. The plan: Use heat from the sun (and not combustion) to power a rocket engine.
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DARPA Funded Scientists Accidently Discover World's First 'WARP BUBBLE' And Open The Door To Travel Faster Than Light
DARPA Funded Scientists Accidently Discover World's First 'WARP BUBBLE' And Opens The Door To Travel Faster Than Light Casimir cavity
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NASA Just Saw Something Come Out Of A Black Hole For The First Time Ever
NASA Just Saw Something Come Out Of A Black Hole For The First Time Ever
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Yale scientists restore cellular function in 32 dead pig brains
Researchers hope the technology will further our understanding of the brain, but lawmakers may not be ready for the ethical challenges.
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Jupiter Is Only Planet in our Solar System That Doesn’t Orbit the Sun
Forget What You heard, Jupiter Doesn’t Orbit The Sun. Jupiter Forget What You heard, Jupiter is so massive that it does not orbit the Sun.
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NASA Pluto Photographs
PlutoAlthough Pluto is no longer considered as a full size planet within our planetary system, it still holds a special place in the solar system. The ninth ...
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‘Morning Star’ Venus to Shine Its Brightest From Wednesday Morn—With Mars, Mercury, Moon, and More in February
This particular week in February coincides with the rise of the “morning star,” like a diamond in the ...
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This is why physicists suspect the Multiverse very likely exists - Big Think
A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.
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A 107-year-old Einstein theory on the origin of the universe may be right
As the instruments used for GW astronomy become more sophisticated, the ability to detect more events (and learn more from them) will only increase.
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Look at This Picture of a Single Atom | What Do Atoms Look Like?
This award-winning photo shows a single atom floating in an electric field—and you can see it with the naked eye if you really look hard.
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Scientists glimpse Titan's startling terrain for the first time
Titan's landscape may be chemically different to Earth's, but the same processes could have shaped them both.
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Rotating Black Holes Could Make Hyperspace Travel Finally Within Reach
One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe. That fantasy may be closer to reality than previously imagined.
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Goldfish taught to drive on land for Israeli animal behavior study : NPR
An experiment involving a robotic tank on wheels and six trained goldfish may offer insights into animals' ability to navigate unfamiliar environments.
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Astronomers Witness a Dying Star Reach Its Explosive End – W. M. Keck Observatory
The Keck Observatory telescopes on Maunakea in Hawaii, are the world’s largest optical and infrared telescopes. Keck Observatory's vision is to advance the frontiers of astronomy and share our discoveries with the world.
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A dinosaur embryo has been found inside a fossilized egg. Here's what that means. - CBS News
The egg was acquired in 2000, but put in storage. It was later identified as a dinosaur egg, and an embryo was found hidden within it.
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Astrophotographer snaps his 'clearest ever photo of the SUN' | Daily Mail Online
Andrew McCarthy, an astrophotographer from Arizona, layered 150,000 individual pictures of the glowing ball of fire to convey the intricate stunning detail of the solar system's largest star.
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Living robots can now reproduce using artificial intelligence
Using artificial intelligence, the xenobots were able to replicate themselves using a process not seen in humans or any other animals.
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Here’s how and when to watch longest lunar eclipse in 580 years
Mark your calendars, the Beaver Moon eclipse is a must-see — and it's the longest of the century!
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How Brains Understand Language: Part 1 of 2. | by John Ball | Pat Inc | Oct, 2021 | Medium
Computers have revolutionized the world with continuous improvements since the 1950s, but they haven’t worked well on biologically-based problems like vision, animal-like movement control and…
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Are strange space signals in Antarctica evidence of a parallel univer
Odd detections at the South Pole have so far defied explanation, inviting theories beyond conventional physics.
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Warp Drive: Scientists Say a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible
For the first time, scientists have introduced a physical model for warp drive. That means humans are one step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds.
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Apollo 14: ‘A Wild Place Up Here’
Apollo 14 was the eighth crewed Apollo mission and the third to land on the Moon. On January 31, 1971, Apollo 14 launched from Kennedy Space Center with a cr...
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Object that whizzed by Earth probably came from alien world, Harvard professor asserts - CBS News
Harvard's Avi Loeb says object that whizzed by Earth in 2017 was probably debris from an advanced alien technology – space junk from many light years away.
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Long-distance quantum teleportation is now possible, meaning quantum internet
A collaborative team of scientists have now successfully teleported qubits across almost 14 miles of fiber optic cables, and internet will never be the same.
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Jupiter & Saturn Conjunction: What to Know About the Rare December Alignment - Thrillist
Jupiter and Saturn will have a great conjunction in December, appearing as a double planet in the sky.
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Arecibo Observatory to Close Its Giant Eye on the Sky - Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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Watch SpaceX launch 4 astronauts to the ISS Saturday | Live Science
NASA and SpaceX are all set to launch a full crew into space tomorrow (Nov. 14) from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This will be the first operational crew mission leaving U.S. soil, since the final space shuttle launch in July 2011.
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”Spacetime is Emerging from Some Deeper Reality” --Stephen Hawking's Paradox | The Daily Galaxy
In has been said that Newton gave us answers; Stephen Hawking gave us questions. A trio of scientists are one step closer to resolving the black-hole information paradox, one of the most intriguing physics mysteries of our time. “Spacetime
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Assessing The Habitability of Planets Around Old Red Dwarfs
A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope gives new insight into an important question: how habitable are planets that orbit the most common type of stars in the Galaxy? The target of the new study, as reported in our press release, is Barnard's Star, which is one of the closest stars to Earth at a distance of just 6 light years.
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In Clouds on Venus, New Potential for Microbial Life
Astronomers have detected a chemical in Venus’ atmosphere that signifies life on Earth. Could it mean the same on Venus?
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Breakthrough extends quantum state stability by 10,000 times
Scientists in Chicago have developed a way to keep quantum states operating for longer periods of time -- a breakthrough that could accelerate the development of quantum communication, computing and sensing.
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Best way to see Comet NEOWISE in the night sky - Los Angeles Times
Get out this week and look up to see Comet NEOWISE, the most spectacular comet in decades.
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Watch An F-35 Go Into Beast Mode
The video leak comes hot on the heels of another air show teaser clip.
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Former Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison Schmitt on privatization of space exploration | Fox News Video
Harrison Schmitt, second to last man to walk on the moon, joins Neil Cavuto on 'Your World.'
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Atomic bonds forming and breaking captured on video for the first time
Atoms are known for forming bonds and breaking apart, but because this happens on such a tiny scale, it’s difficult to study and record. Now, researchers have managed to capture atoms forming and breaking bonds on video for the first time.
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Space Images | Curiosity's 1.8-Billion-Pixel Panorama
NASAs Curiosity rover captured its highest-resolution panorama of the Martian surface between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 2019.
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Ant Nebula | Flickr
From ground-based telescopes, the so-called "ant nebula" (Menzel 3, or Mz 3) resembles the head and thorax of a garden-variety ant.
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Huge red star might explode soon and next few weeks are critical - CNET
Betelgeuse has been very volatile lately, and astronomers are watching to determine if it's terminal or just going through a phase.
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Scientists Are Starting to Take Warp Drives Seriously, Especially One Specific Concept
It's hard living in a relativistic Universe, where even the nearest stars are so far away and the speed of light is absolute. It is little wonder then why science fiction franchises routinely employ…
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'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem
You enter a cave. At the end of a dark corridor, you encounter a pair of sealed chambers. Inside each chamber is an all-knowing wizard. The prophecy says that with these oracles’ help, you can learn the answers to unanswerable problems. But there’s a catc
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Breakthrough pancreatic cancer treatment phase III trial opens in Israel - The Jerusalem Post
Hope is that successful trials will allow Rafael Pharmaceuticals will receive expedited FDA approval by late 2020.
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Five Impossible Facts That Would Have To Be True If The Earth Were Flat
It isn’t flat, and these simple observations that you can make from the ground can demonstrate it to anyone.
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The Ramanujan Summation: 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + ∞ = -1/12?
This is what my mom said to me when I told her about this little mathematical anomaly. And it is just that, an anomaly. After all, it defies basic logic. How could adding positive numbers equal not…
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How to Perform Calendar Calculations in Your Head
In less than 30 minutes, learn how to calculate which weekday any given date occurs on
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Russian Mine Yields Diamond-Within-Diamond Stone; First of its Kind
The stone weighs 0.62 carats, while the internal gem weighs 0.02 carats. It may be more than 800 million years old.
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Quantum Research News | What Is Quantum Superposition?
For the first time ever, physicists tested the phenomenon of quantum superposition using molecules. That's a big deal.
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Dutch inventor says his ocean cleaning boom is working
After a series of setbacks, a system for catching plastic floating in the Pacific between California and Hawaii is now working, its Dutch inventor said Wednesday. Boyan Slat, a university dropout who founded The Ocean Cleanup nonprofit, announced that the
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How NASA gave birth to modern computing—and gets no credit for it
The space agency and MIT’s bet on the integrated circuit kicked off the digital age.
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The Navy Says UFO Videos Are Real
The U.S. Navy says three leaked videos showing reported encounters between Navy aircraft and UFOs are real. And they were never meant to be released.
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The Mysterious Bronze Objects that Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries - Mental Floss - Pocket
The first dodecahedron was discovered nearly 300 years ago, yet no one is certain just what they were used for.
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Space Photos: The Most Amazing Images This Week! | Space
See the best photos on Space.com this week.
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Mathematicians Solve '42' Problem With Planetary Supercomputer
Mathematicians have finally figured out the three cubed numbers that add up to 42. This has settled a problem that has been pondered for 65 years: namely, can each of the natural numbers below 100 be expressed as the sum of three cubes?
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TESS Finds First Nearby Super-Earth (and it may be Habitable)
A trio of planets found in a nearby solar system offer one world that could have water, and maybe life!
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Einstein’s General Relativity passes the test at the centre of our Galaxy
Measurements of a star close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way confirms the predictions General Relativity
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Definition of Closed Timelike Curve
Definition of a closed timelike curve and how closed timelike curves can be used in relativity for the purposes of time travel.
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Introduction to Quantum Programming - Towards Data Science
In depth walkthrough of quantum programming for beginners, building up from the mathematical foundations of qubits to how to run on a real quantum computer.
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Tardigrades that crash-landed on the moon may still be alive, but they’re not having fun | Popular Science
The moon is a barren place, but every so often humanity sends it some visitors. Most recently, the dusty rock received a rather large delegation of Earth’s toughest living critters.
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Perseid meteor shower: The Perseids peak tonight
The peak of the best summertime meteor shower – the Perseids – will be coming to a sky near you tonight, weather permitting.
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Mathematician Solves Computer Science Conjecture in Two Pages | Quanta Magazine
The “sensitivity” conjecture stumped many top computer scientists, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet.
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Chris Kraft | NASA
Christopher C. "Chris" Kraft, Jr. (b. 1924) created the concept, and developed the organization, operational procedures, and culture of NASA's Mission Control, which was a critical element of the success of the nation's human spaceflight program
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Here's What Music Apollo 11 Astronauts Enjoyed for Their Walk on the Moon | Military.com
NASA began equipping astronauts with small Sony TC-50 cassette recorders on the Apollo 7 mission. They used them to play mixtapes.
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Breathtaking Simulation Recreates Neil Armstrong’s View of the Apollo 11 Landing
Choppy video taken by a camera next to Buzz Aldrin’s window is the only visual record we have of the first Moon landing. Using archival data and new high-res images, a team from NASA has recreated the Apollo 11 landing, showing Neil Armstrong’s perspe
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Scientists attempting to open portal to a parallel universe | The Independent
Could 2019 be the year humans open the first portal to a shadowy dimension which mirrors our own world? Scientists in Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee hope so, and have completed building equipment they are to test this summer which may
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Why plants don’t die from cancer
Humans and other mammals and birds would have been killed many times over by Chernobyl's radiation that plants in the most contaminated areas received. So why is plant life so resilient to radiation and nuclear disaster?
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Playing Pokémon Extensively In Childhood Actually Changes the Brain
By Emma Young. As well as being fascinating, the study has important practical implications.
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Navy Pilots Describe Encounters With UFOs | Daily Wire
When we think of unidentified flying objects (UFO), we tend to think of aliens, but we must remember that not all UFOs are extraterrestrial.
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Gorgeous Orion Nebula Glows in Stunning Red and Blue Light (Photo) | Space
Captured in the visible light spectrum, this deep-space image paints a sharp and colorful picture of the great Orion Nebula.
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If There Were a Time Warp, How Would Physicists Find It? | Space
How will physicists know if we're in a time warp?
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What a Year in Space Did to Scott Kelly
An unprecedented and illuminating study monitored identical twins, one in space and one on Earth.
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U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Elephant Walk
The “elephant walk” is a show of Air Force readiness to fight on short notice.
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First Moon Landing 1969 - YouTube
The video of the very first moon landing of the apollo 11 mission in 1969! Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon with his now legenday words "One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind."
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No, Quantum Tunneling Didn't Break The Speed Of Light; Nothing Does
If you don't look at the whole picture, it's all too easy to fool yourself.
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Infamous 'Jack the Ripper' serial killer might be identified through DNA, report says - ABC News
Five women were killed within months in 1888 by "Jack the Ripper."
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NASA studying 'untouched' moon rocks from '70s
NASA is taking a closer look at moon rock samples gathered through the Apollo program, launched nearly 50 years ago.
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Forgetting uses more brain power than remembering -- ScienceDaily
Choosing to forget something might take more mental effort than trying to remember it, researchers discovered through neuroimaging.
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There’s new evidence for what happened to people who survived Vesuvius
Archaeologist studied tomb inscriptions and matched names to historical records.
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Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment - BBC News
The abandoned Chernobyl exclusion zone could be about to change for the first time since the world's worst nuclear disaster.
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A Humpback Whale Was Just Found In The Middle Of The Amazon Rainforest And No One Knows How It Got There
The carcass of an 8-meter (26-foot) humpback whale was discovered last Friday in the mangrove forests of northern Brazil, according to a post by the Brazil
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NASA releases sharpest-ever images of distant Kuiper Belt object
NASA has released its highest resolution images of 2014 MU69, showing the strange Kuiper Belt object in exceptional detail.
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The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Breaks an AI Record
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are training Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer, to model climate change using machine learning techniques.
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WATCH: Trek's Replicator Nearing Reality
Star Trek’s replicator is this-close to becoming a reality. Right now, 3-D printers print objects layer by layer, a time-consuming process, particularly when larger objects are involved. Enter the scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, wh
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The north magnetic pole just changed. Here's what that means.
The foundation of many navigation systems, the World Magnetic Model finally got a much-needed update with the end of the U.S. government shutdown.
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Astronomers spot black hole spinning unbelievably fast as it swallows up a star – BGR
Black holes are some of the most interesting features of our universe, but they're also not very well understood. Studying distant black holes in any great detail is very difficult due to the fact that nothing, including light, can escape their grasp once
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Astronomers spot ‘Farout’, the most distant dwarf planet ever found in our solar system
It's at the edge of our solar system
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Watch the Air and Space Museum's Apollo 8 Anniversary Celebration Live
Astronaut James Lovell and others will speak
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NASA will live stream the landing of its OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe – BGR
The Mars InSight lander only just touched down on the Red Planet, but NASA is already gearing up for the landing of another incredibly interesting mission.
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NASA to Host Briefing on November Mars InSight Landing | NASA
NASA's upcoming landing of the first-ever mission to study the heart of Mars will be the topic of a media briefing at 1:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 31 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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The Universe Has A Speed Limit, And It Isn't The Speed Of Light
Nothing can go faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But particles in our Universe can't even go that fast.
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Voyager 2 probe may be on the edge of interstellar space
NASA's Voyager 2 probe may be close to joining its sibling and entering interstellar space. The vessel has been detecting a five percent increase in cosmic rays...
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Dwarf planet 'The Goblin' discovery redefining solar system | Science | The Guardian
Massively elongated orbit suggests object is influenced by theoretical giant Planet Nine in Oort Cloud region
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The ancient earthquake detector that puzzled modern historians
The earthquake detector that existed long before we knew what earthquakes really were.
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NASA's New Spacecraft Takes First Photo, Finds First Exoplanet
NASA's TESS spacecraft just took its first photo of the night sky, and researchers using that image have found a planet around another star.
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Meet The Four-Dimensional Numbers That Led to Modern Algebra
Strange, long-forgotten numbers called quaternions are undergoing a revival in computer graphics, math, and physics.
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Hubble captures mysterious nebula in gorgeous new image – BGR
You might think that with so many telescopes at its disposal NASA and the astronomy community at large would have plenty of time to gaze at whatever they want, but space is just so big that even some of the most interesting anomalies in the sky fall throu
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Send NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Support As It Battles Epic Dust Storm
While engineers continue to try to revive the Mars rover Opportunity, you can show your support by sending the rover a digital postcard.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station had to plug this hole with their thumb – BGR
Yesterday, Russian space organization Roscosmos and the European Space Agency broke the news that the International Space Station had sprung a leak. That's a pretty big deal for the astronauts who are riding what amounts to a floating science laboratory,
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Astronomers Make a Surprising Discovery from 12.5 Billion Years Ago
A team of astronomers has made a surprising discovery: 12.5 billion years ago, the most opaque place in the universe contained relatively little matter.
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Nasa probe will still be circling Sun at end of Solar System, say scientists
Nasa's new solar spacecraft is so indestructable that parts of it will be circling the Sun until the Solar System ends, eight billion years from now, scientists have said. The US space agency launches its Parker Solar Probe on Saturday, which will trave
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Today the Parker Solar Probe Is Named for Him. 60 Years Ago, No One Believed His Ideas About the Sun. - The New York Tim
Eugene N. Parker predicted the existence of solar wind in 1958. The NASA spacecraft, scheduled to launch on Saturday, is the first named for a living person.
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NASA wants you to build your own Mars rover - CNET
The Jet Propulsion Lab's DIY Curiosity rover costs billions less than the real thing.
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The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archeologists for Centuries | Mental Floss
Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.
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Blood moon: Photos of the lunar eclipse taken by astronaut in space - Business Insider
German astronaut Alexander Gerst, who lives aboard the International Space Station, used his camera to take stunning photos of the total lunar eclipse, or blood moon, from orbit on July 27, 2018.
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Milky Way's Black Hole Provides Long-Sought Test of Einstein's General Relativity - Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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Longest total lunar eclipse of 21st century coming Friday
The longest total lunar eclipse of the century is coming Friday, and it will transform the moon into a reddish orange color for more than 100 minutes, according to NASA. The eclipse won't be visible from North America, Noah Petro, a scientist for the NAS
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Saturn’s moon Titan looks absolutely incredible in new infrared images – BGR
NASA's Cassini orbiter is dead. It's been dead since late last year, having completed an extended mission and a series of daring dives through Saturn's iconic rings, and ultimately found itself slamming through the planet's thick atmosphere where it was e
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Here's what we know about Lockheed Martin's mysterious SR-72 - Business Insider
In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane.
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Astronomers captured the first image of a baby planet
Thanks to European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope, a group of astronomers have taken the first photograph of a planet being formed around a y...
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Evidence for a new fundamental of particle thrills and baffles physicists. - The Washington Post
Existence of a “sterile” neutrino could finally break the Standard Model of particle physics.
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NASA's Curiosity rover takes stunning selfie during massive dust storm on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover has taken an incredible selfie image during an unprecedented massive dust storm on Mars.
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How to stream NASA’s mysterious Mars announcement today – BGR
NASA regularly releases news, scientific papers, and new theories related to Mars, and typically it's with very little fanfare. Scientists have lots of hardware working around the clock to probe the Red Planet's mysteries, and not every minor detail is wo
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Researchers power tiny medical implant from over 100 feet away
Researchers at MIT are working on tiny implantable devices that can communicate and be powered wirelessly. In the future, they could be used to deliver drugs, t...
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Graphene 'stimulation' could selectively kill off cancer cells
A chance lab discovery is opening up the possibility for wide-scale improvements in drug screening, application of selective painkillers, and selectively nuking...
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Quantum drum can vibrate and stand still at the same time - UPI.com
Scientists have built a tiny quantum drum that both vibrates and remains still when struck by a drumstick made of light.
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NuScale's Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Passes Biggest Hurdle Yet
NuScale’s small modular nuclear reactor completed the Phase 1 review of their design certification application by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. That’s a huge deal because Phase 1 is the most intensive phase of the review, taking more hours and ef
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Aliens May Well Exist in a Parallel Universe, New Studies Find
Could alien life be hiding in the multiverse? Two new studies say, "sure!"
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Massive wave is largest ever recorded in southern hemisphere [Video]
New Zealand scientists claim a monster wave detected during a storm is the largest ever recorded in the southern hemisphere.
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Why Pluto is a planet and many moons are, too - The Washington Post
Two planetary scientists say Pluto, exoplanets and even many moons are planets, or “round objects in space that are smaller than stars."
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Dyson Spheres, The Ultimate Alien Megastructures, Are Missing From The Galaxy
Humanity has mapped the Milky Way better than ever with ESA's Gaia. But 1.7 billion stars later, there are still no Dyson spheres.
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NASA Captures Exploding Star
NASA scientists captured images of a supernova, or an exploding star, for the first time and we are totally transfixed by the video. While NASA has been able
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These 'Spooky' Entangled Atoms Just Brought Quantum Computing One Step Closer
Physicists have pushed quantum computing one step closer to becoming a reality.
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Experiment shows Einstein's quantum 'spooky action' approaches the human scale
We usually think of quantum entanglement in the realm of atomic systems, but now it's been scaled up to relatively massive objects. This opens the door to new kinds of technology.
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Japanese company builds working 'Transformers'-like robot that turns into a car | Fox News
A Japanese technology firm has built a robot that can transform into a car.
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Scientists release most detailed star chart of the Milky Way - ABC News
Get breaking national and world news, broadcast video coverage, and exclusive interviews. Find the top news online at ABC news.
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MIT researchers turn water into 'calm' computer interfaces
Our lives are busy and full of distractions. Modern computing. with its constant notifications and enticing red bubbles next to apps, seems designed to keep us...
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NASA Releases Astounding Video Of The Lagoon Nebula To Celebrate Hubble's Birthday | HuffPost
The nebula is a "raucous star nursery full of birth and destruction," NASA says.
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Advanced microscope shows cells at work in incredible 3D detail
For the first time, scientists have peered into living cells and created videos showing how they function with unprecedented 3D detail. Using a special microsco...
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The Most Important Equation In The Universe
Just one equation relates the expansion of space to all the matter and energy we have. If you know this, you can know the fate of the Universe.
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Scientists Accidentally Create Plastic-Digesting 'Mutant Enzyme' | Fortune
Researchers trying to understand an enzyme found in a Japanese recycling plant accidentally improved its plastic-degrading performance.
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NASA’s Juno snapped another photo of Jupiter that looks like a watercolor painting – BGR
Out of all the different pieces of NASA hardware floating around our Solar System, the Juno spacecraft probably has the best gig in terms of pure eye candy.
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Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space
The perfect circle surrounding a galaxy cluster in a new Hubble Space Telescope image is a visual indicator of the huge masses that are bending time and space in that region.
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Fermilab breakthrough: Scientists record unprecedented neutrino measurement - UPI.com
For the first time, scientists have precisely measured the interactions between neutrinos hitting the atomic nuclei in the Fermilab's particle detector.
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The Atomic-Bomb Core That Escaped World War II - The Atlantic
Before two deadly nuclear mishaps, scientists used to risk “tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon.” An Object Lesson.
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China's first space station burns up over the South Pacific
China's Tiangong-1 has met its fiery end. The out-of-control space station plummeted through the Earth's atmosphere at roughly 7:15pm ET on Sunday evening, as e...
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NASA Hubble telescope snaps Icarus, most distant star seen yet - CNET
The space telescope brings us a look at Icarus, the farthest star ever seen, thanks to an assist from a cosmic magnifying glass.
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Pilots report close encounters with UFO over Arizona: 'Something just passed over us'
Two pilots on different aircraft reported having close encounters with a mysterious object flying high above Arizona last month, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The sightings occurred within minutes of each other on the afternoon of Feb
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Here's How to See the Chinese Space Station's Final Orbits and Fiery Fall
China's first-ever space laboratory, Tiangong-1, will fall to Earth within the next week and, weather permitting, you may get an opportunity to see it in one of its final trips around our planet. The space lab launched on Sept. 29, 2011, from Jiuqua
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SpaceX rocket carved giant hole in the ionosphere
Rockets can leave a mark on the atmosphere well after they've left, and SpaceX may have learned that first-hand. Researchers have determined that a Falcon 9 lau...
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The Puzzle Of Quantum Reality
Despite the incredibly accurate predictions of quantum theory, there's a lot of disagreement over what it says about reality — or even whether it says anything at all about it, says guest Adam Becker.
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Black Hole Belches Bright Radio Flashes as It Devours Nearby Star
Black holes are voracious eaters, but they don't have the nicest table manners.
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Vanguard I has spent six decades in orbit, more than any other craft
As of this month, the US satellite Vanguard I has spent 60 years in orbit and it remains the oldest man-made object in space. Vanguard I was the fourth satellit...
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This 3-D-printed house costs $10,000 and can be built in 24 hours
One of the less obvious products being unveiled this week at SXSW is a small concrete house. On the outside, it doesn’t look like anything particularly...
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Newly-released DoD video purportedly shows Navy pilot's encounter with UFO
News, email and search are just the beginning. Discover more every day. Find your yodel.
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Researchers Discover Graphene Is a Superconductor
The discovery rekindles hope that scientists can make a room-temperature superconductor.
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Stunning NASA Juno Image Captures Sunrise and Sunset on Jupiter in One Shot
The image stitches together several photos to show off the details where night and day meet.
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Was Einstein Right? Single Star Will Let Astronomers Test Theory of Relativity
“We have been waiting 16 years for this.”
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Amateur Astronomer Wins 'Cosmic Lottery' with 1-in-10-Million Supernova Shot
An amateur astronomer testing out a new camera just happened to catch the first light emitted by a supernova — a dramatic event that professional astronomers had long wanted to see.
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The secret life of Higgs bosons | symmetry magazine
Are these mass-giving particles hanging out with dark matter?
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New dinosaurs are being discovered in record numbers, and it’s changing everything we thought we knew – BGR
Every kid grows up loving dinosaurs. As we grow older we listen to science teachers explain how dinosaurs lived and died, we watch documentaries about the age when reptiles ruled the land, and by the time we reach adulthood most of us like to think we hav
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Are Quark Stars Possible?
Scientists don't yet know if ultradense quark stars can exist out in the universe.
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Where is Starman? Track Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster's Current Location.
Current location of Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla Roadster and Starman launched by SpaceX on the Falcon Heavy maiden flight
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Physicists Created a New Form of Light
Researchers at MIT and Harvard made groups of three photons interact.
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Are We Closer to Finding a Fifth Dimension?
The discovery of gravitational waves toppled what we thought we knew about dimensions.
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Learning to speak quantum
Particle physicists are studying ways to harness the power of the quantum realm to further their research.
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SpaceX’s historic Falcon Heavy successfully launches | TechCrunch
SpaceX has had a very good first test of its Falcon Heavy rocket, the heavy-lift orbital vehicle that can carry twice the weight of its closest competition in..
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Particle Physics: What's an Odderon, and Did CERN Just Reveal it Exists?
“We’ve been looking for this since the 1970s."
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Check Out Elon Musk’s $500 ‘Boring Company’ flamethrower
And you thought Elon Musk was joking when he said he wanted to sell a Boring Company flamethrower. The fire-spitting device showed up on its website on Saturday and costs $500.
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MIT uses Lego to prototype low-cost micro pumps
Lego bricks (or, if you're not a pedant, Legos) are highly precise and highly consistent plastic objects. Anywhere you go in the world the Lego is the same...
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The Three Meanings Of E=mc^2, Einstein's Most Famous Equation
From matter, antimatter and energy to the fundamental truths about existence, Einstein's most famous equation is the link you can't forget.
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What Are The Most Amazing Possibilities Within The Theoretical Limits Of Physics?
Scientifically speaking, what are the most amazing possibilities within the theoretical limits of physics, even if we haven't yet developed the technology to achieve them yet? This question was originally answered on Quora by Jay Wacker.
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Scientific Theory And The Multiverse Madness
An increasing number of theoretical physicist think that our universe is only one among infinitely many — but this speculation is not based on sound logic, says guest commentator Sabine Hossenfelder.
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These high-speed ‘nano-cranes’ could form molecular assembly lines
Things aren't going well down at the ol' nano-factory. They're having trouble getting all those tiny workers to synchronize and move quickly together. But..
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft found a remarkable similarity between Earth and Saturn’s moon Titan – BGR
NASA's Cassini spacecraft went on a long and treacherous mission that ended last year in spectacular fashion. The large space explorer dove into Saturn's atmosphere, exploded into flames, and then disintegrated into nothing.
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NASA to Reveal Energy Breakthrough That Can Take Humans to Mars and Power a Home for 10 Years
The agency hasn't tried building a nuclear fission reactor for space since the 1960s.
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NASA captures rare image of a distant galaxy nearly as old as the Universe itself
When astronomers at NASA capture images of far-off galaxies, they typically appear only as tiny red dots. These distant celestial bodies are so far away that even the strongest telescopes are usually incapable of distinguishing between the many stars cont
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This inexpensive battery could revolutionize the clean energy industry
In theory, the battery shouldn't work at all. But it does.
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Solar Systems Are Like Peas in a Pod—But Ours Is Wildly Disordered
Other systems are orderly and neat.
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New Dark Matter Physics Could Solve The Expanding Universe Controversy
Multiple teams of scientists can't agree on how fast the Universe expands. Dark matter may unlock why.
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Why Drinking Straws Don't Work In Space
Why would it be impossible to suck a liquid into your mouth using a straw on the moon? This question was originally answered on Quora by C Stuart Hardwick.
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Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes actually capture.
Soon, we may get to see one up close for the first time.
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NASA rover spots strange 'stick-like figures' on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover is eyeing a group of angular formations on Mars that stand out from the usual rocks.
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Incredible NASA image of the Earth and the moon shows how small we really are
It took the picture on its way to a rendezvous with a mysterious asteroid
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SpaceX shows off its Falcon Heavy rocket vertical on the launchpad
SpaceX is getting ready for its first ever test flight of the Falcon Heavy, its heavy-duty rocket aimed at propelling large cargo loads into low Earth orbit...
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A rare Blue Moon lunar eclipse will happen this month
One of the more exciting events of 2017 was the total solar eclipse that was viewable across the US. And if you enjoyed it as much as I did, I have some good ne...
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Scientists Are Designing Artisanal Proteins for Your Body
The human body makes tens of thousands of cellular proteins, each for a particular task. Now researchers have learned to create custom versions not found in nature.
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NASA astronaut, 1st to fly untethered in space, dies at 80
HOUSTON (AP) — NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, has died. He was 80.
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SpaceX launches a reused Dragon atop a reused Falcon 9 for the first time
SpaceX has moved one step closer to its dream of affordable, efficient reusable space flight: Today for its CRS-13 resupply mission for the International..
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Supermassive Black Holes Spotted in Photo of Andromeda Are About to Collide in Megamerger
The black holes were the closest orbiting pair ever discovered.
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Nuke blasts reveal true size of neutron stars
Thermonuclear blasts on a neutron star give away its size and mass.
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40 years ago, NASA sent a message to aliens — here's what it says
In September 1977, NASA launched Voyager I from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Free-fall experiment could test if gravity is a quantum force
The effort to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics always hits one snag: gravity. An experiment could finally tell us if it is a quantum force
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Scientists found a new Earth-sized planet nearby… and it might be habitable
Forget Mars, scientists have discovered a new Earth-sized, possibly habitable, planet just 11 light years away. Known as Ross 128b, the newly discovered..
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Giant Space Explosion That's Never Been Witnessed Before Challenges What We Know About Stars and Black Holes
Astronomers are still figuring out what the heck happened during an explosion first spotted in 2010.
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Physics Breakthrough in 50-Year Search for 'Holy Grail' Particle Tetraquark
A combination of three quarks creates a hadron, which, when stable, we know as a proton or neutron. Now, researchers are about to publish what they say is proof that the tetraquark exists, that it’s stable, and that they can generate it in the Large Ha
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Something scorching hot is melting Antarctica from below, and NASA thinks they know what it is – BGR
Antarctica is a weird place. Scientists have long studied the behavior of its massive ice sheets and the land underneath them in the hopes of understanding the unique geological quirks of the continent, but are frequently puzzled by new discoveries.
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Even more evidence points to alien life on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus
Scientists have discovered that a subsurface ocean on Enceladus could have existed for billions of years, providing plenty of time for microbial alien life to emerge and evolve. One of Saturn’s icy moons, Enceladus is considered one of the best bets f
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Proxima Centauri: Our Closest Cosmic Neighbour May Have an Entire Solar System We Never Knew About
Just last year, scientists announced they had spotted a planet orbiting the star nearest our sun, Proxima Centauri. The discovery is described in a new paper accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. "It’s the first indication o
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Mysterious void in Great Pyramid of Giza could finally reveal how pyramids were built
A mysterious void has been discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza and Egyptologists believe it could finally shed light on how the ancient tombs were constructed. The enigmatic gap, which is around 100ft long is situated directly above the Grand Gallery,
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10 Spacetime Mysteries That Quantum Gravity Could Solve
We travel through spacetime every day, but still don't really know how it works.
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New Wormhole Could Resolve the Black Hole Information Paradox
A new theory is percolating among physicists that presupposes the existence of a traversable wormhole.
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“Self-regulating” nanoparticles can burn cancer without harming healthy cells | TechCrunch
Researchers at the University of Surrey and Dalian University of Technology in China have created a form of nanoparticle that can heat up and kill cancerous..
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NASA Twin Study: Year in Space Changed Scott Kelly All the Way to His DNA
In the space agency’s Twins Study—which investigates the effects of space travel on human health—researchers found that being in space encourages methylation, which is the biological process of switching genes on and off. “Some of the most exciti
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How the Soviet Concorde crashed and burned
With just 55 completed flights and two fatal crashes, the Concorde's Soviet rival, Tupolev Tu-144, was one of civil aviation's biggest failures.
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In A First, Scientists Spot Light Amid Gravitational Waves Emitted By Colliding Stars
Scientists for the first time have detected both gravitational waves and light from the collision of two dead, incredibly dense neutron stars.
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Experiment Confirms a Crucial Property of Electrons, Unfortunately
When it comes to physics, fewer things are more exciting than proving something wrong. Proving theories wrong has led to entirely new fields of study. The fruits that come from wrongness can be so rewarding that scientists devote a considerable amount of time to probing well-known theories, hoping to find a crack.
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Intel moves towards production quantum computing with new 17-qubit chip
Intel's quantum computing efforts have yielded a new 17-qubit chip, which the company has just delivered to its partner in that field, QuTech in the Netherlands. 17 isn't some magic number in the quantum world, nor does this chip do any special tricks ot
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Mystery of the Universe’s Missing Matter Finally Solved by Scientists
The universe is missing half its matter. Scientists believe most of the universe—about 70 percent—is made up of dark energy, the mystery force thought to be driving its expansion. About a quarter is dark matter, and the remaining five percent is norma
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Scientists made the first 'unhackable' quantum video call
Following extensive testing earlier this year, China has now deployed its quantum communications work in the form of the first ever quantum-safe video call.
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A fourth gravitational wave has been detected
And we've pinpointed its location better than ever before.
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Gravity Could Be the Result of Random Quantum Fluctuations
A new theory takes a feature of a quantum mechanical model and shows how it can generate gravity.
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Juno Jupiter Images: NASA Captures Gas Giant in Incredible Detail During Close Approach
Each flyby, a community of Jupiter fans that spans the globe chooses what features JunoCam should focus its lens on. Occasionally more of the frame is black than Jupiter. Here, the image processor was particularly intrigued by the dark ring visible just
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Betelgeuse: The impending Supernova you need to know about
Check out this incredible video of the Betelgeuse 'killer' star - 1,400 times larger than our Sun that would swallow up Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and even Jupiter. The Betelgeuse star is a famous one among amateur astronomers not only for its size and b
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Hubble Telescope Views Blistering Pitch-Black Planet WASP-12b
Twice the size of any planet in our solar system, WASP-12b has the capability to trap at least 94% of the visible starlight falling into its atmosphere.
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Follow Cassini’s final moments before it plunges into Saturn
For the last thirteen years, Cassini has been orbiting Saturn, sending back extraordinary images and data from the ringed planet and its moons.
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The Air Force's 'rods from god' could hit with the force a nuclear weapon — but with no fallout
A bundle of telephone-pole sized tungsten rods, dropped from orbit, reaching up to 10 times the speed of sound.
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Magic Leap is experimenting with light-bending nanomaterials
Mixed reality company Magic Leap is cagey with its tech, to say the least.
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America's longest-orbiting female astronaut has safely returned home
After spending 665 days whizzing 254 miles above the surface of Earth aboard the International Space Station, Astronaut Peggy Whitson has successfully reentered the atmosphere and set down safely in Kazakhstan.
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SpaceX finishes testing Falcon Heavy's first stage cores
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket has been in the works for so long that it almost feels like the stuff of legend at this point (Elon Musk first unveiled it in 2011), but there are signs that it might make that promised November launch.
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NASA’s Hubble Detects Signs of Water on Potentially Habitable TRAPPIST-1 Planets
Several of the planets orbiting a nearby star may harbor “substantial amounts” of water, astronomers say, including three planets situated in a habitable part of the star’s solar system. The star—called TRAPPIST-1—is an ultracool dwarf star 40 l
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Does The Universe Have Physical Boundaries?
Does the universe have physical boundaries? This question was originally answered on Quora by Viktor T. Toth.
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‘Nano-hashtags’ could provide definite proof of Majorana particles
Will the quantum chip that is presented today in Nature by researchers from TU/e among others be able to provide definitive proof of the mysterious Majorana particles?
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Exclusive: We may have detected a new kind of gravitational wave
Rumours are swirling of a new kind of gravitational wave, created by colliding neutrons stars, rather than black holes. Now Hubble has joined the hunt
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Eclipse 2017: A Unique Chance for Science
On Aug. 21, the Moon will cast its shadow down on Earth, giving all of North America the chance to see a solar eclipse. Within the narrow, 60- to 70-mile-wide band stretching from Oregon to South...
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Gravitational Lensing Provides Rare Glimpse Into Interiors of Black Holes
The observable Universe is an extremely big place, measuring an estimated 91 billion light-years in diameter. As a result, astronomers are forced to rely on powerful instruments to see faraway objects. But even these are sometimes limited, and must be paired with a technique known as gravitational lensing.
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NASA's voyager spacecraft still sending data back to Earth after 40 years in operation
NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are coming up on their 40-year anniversaries of exploration this August and September.
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NASA's New Plasma Rocket Ready For Testing
The engine could be much more efficient than standard chemical rockets.
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Physicists Capture the Elusive Neutrino Smacking Into an Atom's Core
By measuring how a nucleus bounces off a neutrino, scientists crack a window into the personality of the shyest particle.
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Nano aluminium offers fuel cells on demand – just add water
The accidental discovery of a new aluminium alloy could lead to portable hydrogen and could kick-start the struggling hydrogen economy
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Ripples In Spacetime: From Einstein To LIGO And Beyond
There's a new book out on gravitational waves, and it covers the history, science, people, and possibilities unlike any other.
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We're Close To Having Real Star Wars Blasters
The military is a fan of Star Wars, apparently.
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Mars rover sends home spectacular panorama
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity continues to perform some amazing feats despite being long overdue for its expected retirement. The rover, having ventured to a somewhat mysterious site that researchers call Perseverance Valley, has been doing its best to he
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Scientists have a new plan for finding extraterrestrial life in our Solar System
Humanity hasn't even scratched the surface of exploring the Milky Way galaxy, much less the rest of the universe, but when it comes to our own Solar System, we have a pretty good idea of what's here.
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Distant Kuiper Belt Object Observed By New Horizons NASA Team In Argentina
NASA researchers with the New Horizons team captured new images of a Kuiper Belt object over the weekend.
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US Navy Tests Laser Weapon That Can Hit Missiles At Speed Of Light
The speed of LaWs is 50,000 times the speed of an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile. The new technology does not need any heavy and costly missile.
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Quantum mechanical particles travel backwards, study confirms
A team of particle physicists and mathematicians have confirmed all quantum mechanical particles move backwards.
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Lawbreaking Particles May Point to a Previously Unknown Force in the Universe - Scientific American
Scientists aren’t yet certain that electrons and their relatives are violating the Standard Model of particle physics, but the evidence is mounting
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Archaeologists go high-tech in 2,500-year-old Greek cold case
More than 2,500 years ago, an Athenian nobleman named Cylon -- the first recorded Olympic champion -- tried to take over the city of Athens and install himself as its sole ruler. According to Thucydides and Herodotus, Athenian and Greek historians who wro
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This Aurora GIF From NASA Will Leave You Speechless
It's pretty easy to be continually in awe of space and new discoveries around it, but every now and then, NASA outdoes itself. This time it comes from a time-lapse video the organization released on June 30, showcasing the aurora australis lights in
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Space breakthrough: Scientists teleport photon from Earth to orbit
For the first time, scientists have successfully teleported a photon from the ground to a satellite in orbit.
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LHC: Charming Particle Xi-cc Discovered at Cern Fits with Standard Model and Opens New Window on the Universe
A new type of particle has been discovered by scientists at CERN using data from last year’s run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The particle opens the door to a “new frontier” of physics, providing researchers with a new way to investigate the
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Does Dark Energy Exist? Einstein's General Relativity Could Rid Us of the Need for Universe's Most Mysterious Force
A renewed suggestion that dark energy may not be real—dispensing with 70 percent of the stuff in the universe—has reignited a longstanding debate. Dark energy and dark matter are theoretical inventions that explain observations we cannot otherwise und
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The whole universe fits in one image with a special trick of math
The universe is enormous — so vast that it's almost impossible to picture what it might...
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NASA’s latest Jupiter image will blow you away
This image, taken by the Juno spacecraft’s JunoCam, was snapped in May as the spacecraft raced passed Jupiter. I don’t have to tell you that it’s a spectacular and breathtaking look at the gas giant. Like the other incredible pictures we’ve seen o
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Was It All Just Noise? Independent Analysis Casts Doubt On LIGO's Detections
The LIGO team just recently announced their third robust event, consistent with merging black holes. But an unexplained effect might mean this isn't signal, but simply noise instead.
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The human brain sees the world as an 11-dimensional multiverse
New research suggests that the human brain is almost beyond comprehension because it doesn’t process the world in two dimensions or even three. No, the human...
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Elon Musk: SpaceX may launch its biggest and most powerful rocket in 3 months
Elon Musk has broken some tantalizing news about the biggest rocket ever built by his company...
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2017 Full Moon Calendar
Calendar with dates and times for the full moons of 2017.
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Trappist Solar System Formed As Planets Moved To Warmer Climate
The seven Earth-sized planets in the Trappist-1 solar system formed as their pieces moved toward the star and ice melted into water.
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Lockheed Martin Announces Progress in Hypersonic SR-72 Aircraft Program
Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs discussed the future of the SR-71 Blackbird's successor: a Mach 6 strike and reconnaissance aircraft.
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Behold Jupiter’s Enormity With This Amazing Fly-By Video
A mathematician and an animator teamed up to compile 36 photos into one amazing video.
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LIGO detects more gravitational waves, from even more ancient and distant black hole collisions
These ripples in the very fabric of the universe were hypothesized by Einstein a century ago. Now scientists have detected them for the third time in a year and a half – ushering in a new era in astrophysics.
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Scientists may have found evidence of a parallel universe
The idea that we might be living in just one of an infinite number of universes has been fodder for scientific debate and sci-fi movie plots for a long time, but coming up with evidence to support the theory has been hard to come by.
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Aerospace Executive 'Absolutely Convinced' There Are Aliens On Earth | HuffPost
"There has been and is an existing ET presence. I spent more than anybody else in the U.S. has ever spent on this subject."
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The ‘alien megastructure’ star is acting weird, again, and it’s exactly what astronomers have been waiting for
We could solve the mystery to KIC 8462852 within a week!
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Reports claim UFO whizzes past International Space Station
Video has surfaced that a UFO has flown past the ISS, but the reports are unconfirmed.
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Giant ring of galaxies scattered during Andromeda flyby challenges Einstein's theory of gravity
A huge ring of galaxies spanning 10 billion light years is challenging Albert Einstein's theory of gravity. In two papers, one published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and the other currently under review, scientists observed th
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Superluminal Speeds (faster than light)
This video features Professor Mike Merrifield from the University of Nottingham explaining a star appearing to a break the faster than light law.
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NASA’s Saturn spacecraft just delivered photos so stunning you’ll think they’re fake
NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to delivery some truly jaw-dropping photographs from Saturn, and its most recent "Grand Finale" dive between the planet's rings has produced some of its most striking eye candy yet.
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Scientists discover supersized earthlike planet
American scientists have discovered a super-sized earthlike planet in a nearby star system that could support alien life.
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Quantum Physics: Are Entangled Particles Connected Via An Undetected Dimension?
Are entangled particles connected via another dimension, since they continue to be connected and a reflection of each other regardless of distance? This question was originally answered on Quora by Allan Steinhardt.
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NASA's Trappist-1 Planets Could Be Seeding Each Other with Alien Life
In February, NASA announced the discovery of seven potentially habitable planets within the TRAPPIST-1 solar system, just 40 light years from Earth. Scientists have now discovered that if life does exist it could be passed between the planets via space d
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All the American Flags On the Moon Are Now White
NASA has finally answered a long-standing question: all but one of the six American flags on the Moon are still standing up. Everyone is now proudly talking about it. The only problem is that they aren't American flags anymore.
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Top 10 Facts About The Apollo Mission That NASA Wanted To Keep Secret
Getting to the Moon was a fantastic achievement, and the technology was amazing. It also had the added complication of involving human beings. At the time,
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Physicists prove Einstein still wrong about quantum mechanics with record-breaking trapped ion tests
Physicists from a US government agency have made a breakthrough in proving that quantum mechanics can indeed be explained by classical physics, as well as showing that trapped ions could be the best method for reliably creating quantum entanglement, which
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GJ 1132b: Atmosphere rich in water detected around alien 'Earth-like' planet
Scientists have detected what they believe to be an atmosphere around an Earth-like exoplanet. The planet, GJ 1132b, is a super-Earth located 39 light years away, and research currently indicates it has an atmosphere rich in water and methane – potentia
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Cassini spacecraft to dive inside Saturn's rings for mission finale
NASA is preparing to send its long-lived Cassini probe into the unexplored region between Saturn and its rings for a scientific grand finale before the spacecraft's suicidal plunge into the planet, space officials said on Tuesday. Nathan Frandino rep
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Want to feel really small? Meet UY Scuti, the largest star in the universe
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered just how big those twinkling lights really are? Meet UY Scuti, a star nearly 1,700 time larger than our Sun and the biggest in our galaxy.
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Quantum Physics News: Entangled Photons Can Originate From Different Points In Space
For the longest time, scientists thought that entangled particles emerged from the same point in space. New observations challenge this belief.
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Gorgeous video takes you on a trip above Mars
At the moment, NASA and other space agencies are operating satellites in orbit around Mars. The spacecraft are continuing to beam amazing images of the red planet's surface back to Earth, and some of the probes have even solved Martian mysteries in the pr
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Astronomers are set to peer into a black hole and take a picture of its event horizon
Ever since first mentioned by Jon Michell in a letter to the Royal Society in 1783, black holes have captured the imagination of scientists, writers, filmmakers and other artists. Black holes are regions of space inside which the pull of gravity is so st
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Juno spooks NASA, sends back wild images from Jupiter
Risk averse NASA has decided to keep its spacecraft Juno on the looonnnggg orbit of Jupiter. Earlier in February, the agency said it didn't want to risk firing the spacecraft's engines and bring it in for a closer zip around the mega-planet. Meanwhile, th
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Space buffs drool as NASA announces a major 'discovery beyond our solar system'
NASA will host a news conference on Wednesday to discuss recent discoveries of planets beyond our solar system. The even will begin at 1 p.m. ET. The public are invited to ask questions via Twitter with the hashtag #askNASA.
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Supernova spotted just hours after explosion
The first moments of a supernova — the spectacular explosion that marks the death of massive stars — have been spotted for the first time, astronomers announced Monday.
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Triple treat: Eclipse, comet, full moon all coming Friday night
Skywatchers will enjoy a rare space tripleheader: A penumbral lunar eclipse during the full "snow" moon and also the flyby of a comet.
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U.S. scientists create metallic hydrogen, a possible superconductor, ending quest
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have succeeded in squeezing hydrogen so intensely that it has turned into a metal, creating an entirely new material that might be used as a highly efficient electricity conductor at room temperatu
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NASA displays Apollo capsule hatch 50 years after fatal fire
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A relic from America's first space tragedy is finally going on display this week, 50 years after a fire on the launch pad killed three astronauts at the start of the Apollo moon program.
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NASA's Moonwalking Apollo Astronauts: Then and Now
Only 18 people have flown on missions to the moon. Here are the astronauts of NASA's Apollo manned journeys to the lunar surface.
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Land On Titan With Huygens in Beautiful New Video
On December 25, 2004, the piggybacking Huygens probe was released from the ‘mothership’ Cassini spacecraft and it arrived at Titan on January 14, 2005. The
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A theory that challenges Newton's and Einstein’s gravity and nixes dark matter passed its first test — Quartz
Margot Brouwer of Leiden University is brave—and you need to be, if you're challenging Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton in one fell swoop. Brouwer and her colleagues believe that the laws of gravity, as determined by Newton and further expanded by Einst
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Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes actually capture. - Vox
Supermassive black holes are incredibly tiny. So small that we’ve never actually seen one.
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Six more fast radio bursts have been discovered coming from the same mystery cosmic source
Repeating FRBs came from same location far beyond the Milky Way where 10 had previously been detected.
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Black hole rips star apart, creating biggest blast ever seen
At first scientists thought the inconceivably bright flare was a supernova, but it turned out to be a far crazier cosmic collision
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NASA's EMDrive And The Quantum Theory Of Pilot Waves
The pilot wave model of quantum theory is an interesting idea, but it won't save the EMDrive.
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This surreal image of Saturn is not a painting
The new image shows off Saturn's hexagonal jet stream in the planet's north pole.
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Scientists develop method for precisely controlling electrons
Researchers have developed a method for more precisely controlling the emission of electrons through the tiny metal tip of an electron microscope.
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Smallest sliver of time yet measured sees electrons fleeing atom
Ultrafast lasers have measured how long electrons take to be booted from a helium atom with zeptosecond precision – trillionths of a billionth of a second
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New theory explains gravity better than Einstein's relativity
Dark matter and dark energy aren't needed to explain large-scale gravitational movements under the new theory.
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Impossible Spaceship Engine Called "EmDrive" Actually Works, Leaked NASA Report Reveals
Though scientists are still trying to figure out how it doesn’t violate the laws of physics.
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US Special Operations Command plans to have Iron Man suit prototypes by 2018
This could revolutionize combat for US operators.
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Argonne researchers posit way to locally circumvent Second Law of Thermodynamics where entropy always i
For more than a century and a half of physics, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that entropy always increases, has been as clo...
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Next Big Future: MIT set nuclear fusion plasma record and proposes two Tokomak designs for vastly faster and lower cost
MIT set a new world record for plasma pressure in the Institute’s Alcator C-Mod tokamak nuclear fusion reactor. Plasma pressure is the key ...
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Give a 3D printer artificial intelligence, and this is what you’ll get
By retrofitting industrial robots with 3D printing guns and artificial intelligence algorithms, Ai Build has constructed machines that can see, create, and even learn from their mistakes.
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Gravitational Waves May Permanently Alter Spacetime
Finding evidence of gravitational-wave memory could help solve the black hole information paradox.
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Does Quantum Entanglement Mean The Universe Exists in Infinite States?
The behavior of atomic particles has us questioning the very nature of reality.
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Entangled Particles Reveal Even Spookier Action Than Thought
This finding comes from a close look at quantum entanglement, in which two particles that are "entangled" affect each other even when separated by a large distance. Now, researchers have found that even if they were to scrap this theory, allowin
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Electrons squeezed into 'one-dimensional' wires yield quantum effects
Scientists have witnessed quantum effects in electrons after squeezing them into "one-dimensional" wires.
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Jeff Bezos' secretive rocket company just revealed its plans to tower over SpaceX
Just over a week after SpaceX's launchpad rocket failure, Blue Origin — the aerospace...
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Curiosity Rover's Proximity To Possible Water Raises Planetary Protection Concerns - Universe Today
The Curiosity rover may need to divert its course soon, as its current path could cause it to contaminate a small pocket of water on Mars' surface
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Here's why a massive 1859 solar storm still terrifies scientists
A modern Carrington Event-level solar storm has the potential to devastate global infrastructure, and we have no way to predict if and when one could happen.
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NASA’s Juno orbiter has sent back Jupiter photos “like nothing we have seen or imagined before” - Vox
This is the first image of the gas giant’s north pole.
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What is the Speed of Light? - Universe Today
Since the late 17th century, scientists have been attempting to measure the speed of light, with increasingly accurate results
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NASA's EmDrive thruster just took an important leap forward
NASA's futuristic, physics-defying EmDrive thruster may have just taken an important leap toward silencing its critics, by reportedly passing a rigorous peer review process with a forthcoming paper.
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They’re not saying it’s aliens, but signal traced to sunlike star sparks SETI interest
SETI researchers are buzzing about a strong spike in radio signals that seemed to come from the direction of a sunlike star in the constellation Hercules, known as HD 164595. The signal conceivably fits the profile for an intentional transmission from an
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A new ‘Einstein’ equation suggests wormholes hold the key to quantum gravity - Business Insider
There’s a new equation floating around the world of physics these days that would make Einstein proud.
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NASA just released a bunch of new incredible photos that you really need to see
Let your inner space geek rejoice! NASA just released over a 1,000 new photos of Mars and they’re so stunning that we’re…
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Has a New, Fifth Force of Nature Been Found?
Scientists have found evidence of a possible fifth force of nature, which could help lift the veil on the mysterious dark matter that's thought to dominate the universe.
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Scientists Are Now Even More Confused By Potential "Alien Superstructure"
After observing Tabby's Star for four years, results only provoke more questions.
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A Freaky Anti-Rubber Is Still Weirding Scientists Out | WIRED
Auxetics are a class of materials whose curious and complex properties have excited researchers for decades.
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Space Radiation Devastated the Lives of Apollo Astronauts | Observer
A startling new study has revealed that a high number of the lunar astronauts from NASA’s Apollo program are suffering high mortality rates.
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Astronomers are performing a definitive test of Einstein's General Relativity theory - Business Insider
Astronomers are trying to do the impossible that could prove Einstein wrong
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Einstein's clock: The doomed black hole to set your watch by | New Scientist
Every 12 years, a black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy completes an orbit around an even bigger black hole, marking this with a violent outburst
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8 Unexpected Things We Just Found Out About Jupiter
This is a truly historic opportunity and already, we’ve got some absolutely fascinating feedback from our probe. Thankfully, Cameron was kind enough to allow me to commandeer his article here at Paste to let you, the public, in on some of the amazing ne
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The (Suprisingly Funny) Code for the Apollo Moon Landings Is Now on GitHub
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Astronomers Have Detected Clouds Of Water Outside Our Solar System
Scientists have found a dwarf star "dominated by water vapor and clouds, with an overall appearance that is strikingly similar to Jupiter."
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Newly Discovered Strange Planet Has 3 Suns
The planet is believed to be a relatively young 16 million years old. Exoplanets are planets that orbit a star other than our sun. "For much of the planet's year, the stars appear close together, giving it a familiar night side and day si
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NASA’s probe is now orbiting Jupiter and so are three Lego figures
In August 2011, NASA launched a probe (“Juno”) into space as part of one of its most ambitious projects to date. Today,…
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Scientists discovered a new shade of blue and it’s totally gorgeous
Sometimes, the best things happen by pure accident. Such is the case with a brand new gorgeous shade of blue, which Oregon…
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Hubble Space Telescope Catches a Glimpse of 'Fireworks' in Nearby Galaxy
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a celestial fireworks show in a miniature galaxy, coming just in time for the Fourth of July. The galaxy, named Kiso 5639, is located 82 million light-years away from Earth. A photo released by NASA shows just how busy
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Sun Has Likely Entered New Evolutionary Phase, Say Astronomers - Forbes
The Sun has likely already entered into a new unpredicted long-term phase of its evolution as a hydrogen-burning main sequence star --- one characterized by magnetic sputtering indicative of a more quiescent middle-age. Or so say the authors of a new pap
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NASA's New Horizons Views First Distant Kuiper Belt Object Beyond Pluto - Forbes
New Horizons mission goes way beyond Pluto, and can continue to teach us more about the amazing outer reaches of our Solar System.
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A lot of people are having trouble with this math problem that requires some basic algebra
Nothing like a viral mind boggling math problem to make you feel like you should have paid better attention in high school…
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Is Cause & Effect Limited By The Speed Of Light? - Forbes
How fast can a cause make an effect? Is there a speed limit? How much of the universe can you influence with any given action?
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Fermi paradox solved? Aliens won't contact us for 1,500 more years, says student
New calculation by Cornell student Evan Solomonides explains why we haven't been around long enough to expect a call from E.T.
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Why NASA is Legally Required to Go to Jupiter—and Why That’s Good | TIME
An icy Jovian moon may be our best hope for finding extraterrestrial life
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The Beauty of Laplace’s Equation, Mathematical Key to … Everything | WIRED
With these five symbols, Laplace read the universe.
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Apollo 19 Saturn V Rocket Stage Arrives at Infinity Science Center for Display
A huge Saturn V first stage, originally slated for use in NASA's Apollo moon program, has arrived at its new home: outside the Infinity Science Center in Mississippi.
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Something is off about one of Egypt's oldest and largest pyramids
The Great Pyramid of Giza, which was built for an Egyptian Pharaoh some 4,500 years ago, has been...
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Dark side of the moon: The grim history of NASA's space race - CNET
On this day in history: June 20 marks some important milestones in the dark history of human space exploration.
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This is what it looks like when fire burns inside a spacecraft | Ars Technica
With the Saffire experiment NASA hopes to learn how to better control fire in space.
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There's a black hole in our galaxy, and it's not far from Earth
Black holes are more common than you may think. There’s even one in our galaxy. Close enough for scientists to actually observe its destructive nature.
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Watch astronaut Tim Peake explain why somersaults in the ISS don't make you dizzy
“On the ground the brain takes cues both from the motion of fluid in our inner ear, which is affected by our motion and by gravity, as well as from our vision to determine our position and motion.”
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Black holes not the end: Physical object could cross a wormhole into another part of the universe
Objects may be able to pass through a wormhole at the centre of a black hole despite extreme forces.
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What Does Mars Smell Like?
There may be ways to recreate whiffs of the Red Planet here on Earth, scientists say.
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NASA Will Return to the Moon in Preparation for Human Mars Mission
The 2018 mission will be launched from Kennedy Space Center and will travel to a distant orbit around the Moon.
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'Into the Black': Book Recounts Untold Story of 1st Space Shuttle Flight
Space.com talks with author Rowland White about his new book,
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Jeff Williams enters an inflatable room in space, lives to tell the tale | Ars Technica
Bigelow's expandable module so far looks "pristine" after its expansion.
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Hubble Reveals Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal that the universe is expanding 5 percent to 9 percent faster than expected. “This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up
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King Tut's dagger was made from meteorite
X-rays show ancient weapon made of "iron from the sky"
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Researchers think they've solved a Stonehenge mystery
Researchers in London think they have solved one of the most enduring mysteries of Stonehenge: How did a bunch of prehistoric Britons haul massive stones from a quarry in Wales to the site of the monument more than 100 miles?
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Gravitational waves may reveal stringy Universe | Ars Technica
Pattern of gravitational waves may reveal string theory's remnant strings.
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Maths mystery solved after 40 years | Cosmos
A proof for graph theory's Kelmans-Seymour conjecture.
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Ice on Mars: The Red Planet is going through an Ice Age - CNET
Data collected by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests the Red Planet is going through an ice age.
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How fast rockets must travel to escape planets
It takes a lot of fuel to reach that speed, which is why early rockets, like Apollo's Saturn V, were so big: They had to carry enough fuel to get to the moon.
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Giant space shuttle tank arrives in L.A. by sea - LA Times
The space shuttle external tank known as ET-94 never flew, but it finished a decidedly different journey, by sea, early Wednesday when it docked in Marina del Rey atop a sea barge.
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Hubble just captured one of the coolest photos of Mars ever taken | The Verge
A week ago, astronomers used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to take this striking image of the Red Planet as it was 50 million miles away from Earth. The photo shows Mars' rusty landscape, its polar...
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How Does Light Travel? - Universe Today
Since ancient times, scientists have debated the true nature of light. Despite the progress we've made, there are still mysteries left to be resolved
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Scientists just found more evidence that this mysterious water world might be able to support alien life - Yahoo Finance
From Yahoo Finance: A new study released by NASA on Tuesday shows that oceans on Europa, one of Jupiter’s 67...
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This Incredible Photo From the ISS Shows the Center of the Galaxy
That's one hell of a view.
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Step inside cockpit of US's iconic war planes - Business Insider
From the planes of World War I to the fighters and bombers that turned the tide against Hitler, the museum's virtual tour is an aviation nut's dream come true.
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Meet the largest unmanned world in our solar system - CNN.com
Many dwarf planets lurk in the depths of our solar system. Now astronomers believe one of those mysterious worlds is larger than originally thought.
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See SpaceX's 'fastest and hottest' Falcon 9 landing from three sides
SpaceX added another important entry in the history books by successfully landing the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at sea for the second time.
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Eclipses and Transits | NASA
NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.
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Intelligent Alien Life Almost Certainly Existed Somewhere Else, Study Says
New calculations based on NASA data find that humans are probably not alone in the universe.
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Hints of a New Particle Could Completely Change Physics as We Know It
It could be nothing at all. Or it could be a breakthrough.
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3 new Earth-like planets found Researchers say the discovery opens up rich new territory in the search for extraterrestrial life
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers searching for life beyond our solar system may need to look no farther than a little, feeble nearby star.
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One's Man Quest To Find Out If Captain America's Shield Can Take Your Head Off
The journey for knowledge is never-ending.
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It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter - Business Insider
Thanks to mind-bending heat and pressure, tiny diamonds fall from the skies like rain on a warm summer day.
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Space mysteries no scientist can explain - Business Insider
Considering that we've explored only a teeny-tiny corner of the universe, there's a lot of big questions we don't have answers for yet.
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Can a Titanium Captain America Shield Stand Up to Shots From a .45?
It's not vibranium, but it is close.
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Man builds working homemade hoverbike, doesn't die | The Verge
YouTube sensation and inventor Colin Furze is used to making insane things like retractable wolverine claws, working versions of the hidden blade and rope launcher featured in Assassin's Creed...
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Parallel Universes: Theories & Evidence
There actually is quite a bit of evidence out there for a multiverse — an infinite number of other universes besides our own.
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Engage! Quantum Thruster Physics Could Help Make Warp Drive a Reality
A type of thruster being tested in a NASA lab could help scientists unlock the key to making a 'Star Trek' inspired warp drive enabled starship.
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Bizarre fourth state of water discovered
You already know that water can have three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. But scientists at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) have discovered that when it's put under extreme pressure in small spaces, the life-giving liquid can exhibit a strange
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Looking For Higher Dimensions In Gravity - Forbes
Some theories predict the existence of higher dimensions. With sensitive gravitational experiments we can test that idea.
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Hubble Telescope Captures Sharpest Image Yet of Mysterious Red Rectangle
The Red Rectangle is so named because of its strange shape and striking color. But this stellar nebula looks more like a cosmic "X" in this new image from Hubble.
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US Air Force rocket powered maglev sled - Business Insider
Magnetic levitation — also known as MagLev — is used all around the world to power high speed trains.
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How much fuel a rocket uses in elephants - Business Insider
The Saturn V rocket burned through 763 Asian elephants worth of propellant during lift-off.
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Hunt Continues for Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Megamergers
The sound of merging supermassive black holes does not saturate the universe.
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Quick and quiet: Supersonic flight promises to hush the sonic boom
The Bell X-1, piloted by U.S. Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager, reached 700 mph on Oct. 14, 1947. At Mach 1.06, it was the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound. But at speeds greater than Mach 1, air pressure disturbances around airplanes merge to form shock waves that create sonic booms, heard and felt 30 miles away.
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NASA has detected a burst of light that might be linked to one of the most monumental space discoveries ever made
In September, physicists made a monumental discovery that opened up a new window to the universe...
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Mysterious Gravitational Tug on Orbiter May Help Find Planet Nine - Scientific American
Astronomers are homing in on the whereabouts of a hidden giant planet in our solar system, and could discover the unseen beast in roughly a year
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NASA rover snaps photo of a dust devil swirling on Mars
More than 4,000 Martian days after NASA's Mars rover Opportunity began exploring the surface of the red planet, the little robot caught sight some something truly stunning. Opportunity snapped a photo of a dust devil swirling in the Meridiani Planun, the
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Watch something bash Jupiter, causing an explosion seen from Earth - CNET
Two amateur astronomers separately capture a continent-size blast emanating from the massive planet.
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Transparent Aluminum: Real, Glass-Like, See-Through Metal
Stronger than glass, various military and commercial applications for this remarkable material are already being tested. What was once used in the
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Shockwave of an exploding star seen for the first time - CNN.com
It lasted only 20 minutes and took place 1.2 billion light years away, but NASA managed to catch it on camera: a star exploding.
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Here’s What Happens When a Piece of Paper Is Folded Seven Times Under a Hydraulic Press
A hydraulic press made a piece of paper explode by the seventh fold. This is why.
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Mathematicians shocked to find pattern in "random" prime numbers | New Scientist
Unexpected trends in the last digits of prime numbers mean they are less random than previously thought, much to the surprise of mathematicians
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ExoMars Spacecraft Roll Out to Launchpad for Monday's Liftoff (Photos)
The next robotic mission to Mars has rolled out to the launchpad ahead of its planned Monday (March 14) liftoff.
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Astronomers say they’ve found the biggest structure in the universe and they named it the BOSS - The Washington Post
The BOSS is big. Really big. Yuuuuuge. It's an immense complex comprising more than 800 galaxies and weighing 10,000 times as much as the Milky Way.
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Polish chemists tried to make kryptonite and failed, but then made a huge discovery
Avert your eyes, Superman, because according to news out of Poland this morning, a team of chemists just got awfully close to actually creating the fictional substance of kryptonite. Don’t sweat too much though, Clark — the scientists were only able t
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Here are astronaut Scott Kelly's most jaw-dropping photos from his year in space
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Here's what happens to your body in space - Business Insider
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly just spent a year in space. Here's what it did to his body.
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Could a spacecraft really make the journey to Mars in 30 minutes? One physicist says yes - Yahoo News
From Yahoo News: Aside from its extremely cold temperatures, unbearably thin atmosphere, and its all-around shroud of complete mystery; perhaps the biggest obstacle facing a journey to Mars is the sheer amount of time it would take to get there. Though e
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Year-in-Space Astronaut Scott Kelly Packs for Home But Skips Souvenir
Scott Kelly, who has been living and working on the space station since last March and is set to return to Earth next week, isn't bringing home a souvenir for himself.
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'Last Man on the Moon' Documentary Brings Space Exploration Home
"Last Man on the Moon," a documentary about the life and experiences of former astronaut Eugene Cernan, drives home the reasons for humanity's pursuit of the stars.
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Astronomers just located a mysterious cosmic phenomenon for the first time — but they have no idea what caused it
For years, astronomers have observed a peculiar phenomenon they call fast radio bursts (FRB) but...
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Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes actually capture. - Vox
Supermassive black holes are incredibly tiny. So small that we’ve never actually seen one.
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NASA plans its next giant space telescope, and it’s so much cooler than Hubble
With each new innovation, NASA seems to dwarf its previous accomplishments, and this certainly appears to be the case for the agency’s latest and greatest space telescope. Promising to make Hubble look like child’s play, the Wide-Field Infrared Surv
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Lost Tapes Reveal Apollo Astronauts Heard Unexplained ‘Music’ On Far Side Of The Moon
"If you’re behind the moon and hear some weird noise on your radio, and you know you’re blocked from the Earth, then what could you possibly think?"
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Quantum weirdness may hide an orderly reality after all | New Scientist
A reboot of a classic quantum experiment suggests that photons have a well-defined trajectory, resurrecting a previously dismissed theory
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A five-dimensional black hole could 'break' general relativity
Five-dimensional black holes would contain gravity so intense, the laws of physics as we know them would fall apart.
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6 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Gravitational Waves | WIRED
There are so many cool aspects of LIGO's detection of gravitational waves. Here are six ideas for you to consider.
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What Astronauts Miss Most In Space Isn't What You'd Expect
Scott Kelly says that he misses the weather.
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Hold Up, Did We Just Crack Time Travel? - The Daily Beast
Astrophysicists famously proved Einstein’s theory on the existence of gravitational waves last week. Here’s the less covered part of it all: It might, down the line, bring us closer to moving through time.
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Say 'Hello' to the Spaceship That Will Bring Humans to Mars
NASA — It sent men and women to the moon, it safely carried them back to Earth and now it has its sights on its most ambitious target yet: Mars.
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Einstein was right: Scientists detect gravitational waves
Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity passes a big test: Scientists have direct evidence of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space and time.
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NASA's New Super-Fast Solar Ship May Have Just Revolutionized How We Explore Space - Defense One
Instead of a traditional, chemical propellant, it’s powered by photons from the sun and can travel nearly 64,000 miles per hour.
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Germany makes landmark fusion power achievement as W7-X reactor fires up for real
Our dreams of nuclear fusion are drawing ever nearer thanks to a scientific leap forward in Germany. On Wednesday, a team of researchers at Max Planck Institute in Greifswald switched on the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator for the very first time with a li
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China Just Released True Color HD Photos Of The Moon | TechCrunch
This month, the China National Space Administration released all of the images from their recent moon landing to the public. There are now hundreds and..
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Real-life 'X-Files'? CIA posts trove of UFO documents | Fox News
The truth is out there – the CIA is offering a peek into its ‘X-files,’ shining a spotlight on a series of once-classified UFO documents
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Ceres' landscape is mystifying scientists - Business Insider
VIDEO: Ceres has a mountain almost as high as Mt. Everest.
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Crazy Video: Physics teacher shoots himself underwater to prove a scientific principle
Physicists love conducting strange, if not wholly bizarre and seemingly dangerous, experiments in order to showcase whatever scientific principles they're trying to impart to students or the public at large. Most recently, physicist Andreas Wahl deci
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Planet Nine? Evidence Grows for Big Addition to Solar System
As described by Brown and fellow astronomer Konstantin Batygin Wednesday in the Astronomical Journal, this new planet would be roughly 10 times the size of the Earth and would take as much as 20,000 years to make a single orbit around the sun. Its theore
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I’m STILL Not Sayin’ Aliens. But This Star Is Really Weird.
A star that made headlines due to weird brightness dips—leading to speculations of aliens building structures around it—is even weirder than we thought.
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Best homemade lightsaber ever video | BGR
The release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens last month has inspired a new generation of nerdy engineers to try their hands at making their own homemade lightsabers.
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This Is A Map Of The Entire Universe, Squeezed Into One Mind-Boggling Image
This stunning spherical image manages to cram in the entire universe, including our Solar System at the centre. The mind-boggling image also packs in the outer planets, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, Alpha Cetauri star and the cosmic web along with the Milky Wa
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A New Hope for a Perplexing Mathematical Proof | WIRED
Three years ago, a solitary mathematician released an impenetrable proof of the famous abc conjecture. At a recent conference dedicated to the work, optimism mixed with bafflement.
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A Radical Reinterpretation of Einstein’s Theory — NOVA Next | PBS
A cadre of physicists working on the theory of shape dynamics could change our understanding of reality.
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Moon Mystery Solved! Apollo Rocket Impact Site Finally Found
A sharp-eyed NASA spacecraft has spotted the final resting place of one of the rockets that took astronauts to the moon, more than 43 years after the booster slammed into the lunar surface.
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It's impossible to appreciate how vast the universe is. But this video will help. - Vox
The scale of a single galaxy is beyond words.
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Homemade lightsaber made with laser can cut wires and destroy things
YouTuber Drake Anthony built his very own lightsaber using a powerful 7-watt blue laser.
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Why This Mysterious Fungus Has People Talking
Its unusual appearance has a lot to do with it.
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SpaceX Historic Rocket Landing Is a Success
SpaceX successfully launched and landed its Falcon 9 rocket back on Earth tonight, marking the first time a rocket has launched a payload into space and returned. Founder Elon Musk has said the ability to reuse a rocket -- which dramatically r
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Two NASA astronauts will perform an unscheduled spacewalk next week
NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra will likely perform an unexpected spacewalk next week, to fix a rail car that stalled on the outside of the International Space Station. The unscheduled spacewalk will address a problem that arose on Wednesday wi
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NASA Captures EPIC Views Of Earth
Think you've seen an accurate image of Earth from space? Think again.
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The Real Story Of Apollo 17... And Why We Never Went Back To The Moon
On December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 touched down on the Moon. This was not only our final Moon landing, but the last time we left low Earth orbit. With the successful launch of the Orion capsule, NASA is finally poised to go further again. So it’s important
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Here's how ridiculously fast we could visit everything in the solar system if we traveled at the speed of light
For humans, the mysteriously wondrous planets and moons in our solar system are ridiculously far...
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This guy just built a working miniature Death Star - CNET
The latest creation from a German laser hobbyist on YouTube threatens to create a terrible disturbance in the Force.
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What Would Happen If There Were No Moon?
Inside Science Television produces short-form news videos about cutting-edge research and science developments. More info at http://www.InsideScience.org INS...
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'Spooky Action' Heats Up: Atoms Entangled at Room Temperature
The world of the very small can get pretty wacky — particles can be in two or more places at once, and even become entangled, wherein actions on one entity can affect its partners across the cosmos. Physicists have broken all kinds of r
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This dogfight between 200 Israeli and Syrian jets was one of the biggest of all time
The Israeli pilots had benefited from great training and a lot of combat experience, but the Syrians had also screwed themselves.
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The Real Reason Why There's A Tiny Hole In Airplane Windows
It's all-too-easy to let your mind wander when you're confined to a tiny box of space while hurtling 40,000 feet in the air at hundreds of miles per hour, but rest assured: every single window on the airplane has the same hole, and there's a good reason.
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There's a Hidden Connection Between Pi and Quantum Mechanics
Physicists have uncovered a hidden connection between a famous 350-year-old mathematical formula for pi, everyone’s favorite irrational number, and quantum mechanics. At least one mathematician has pronounced the discovery “a cunning piece of magic.��
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‘UFO’ Captured In Photo Of Earth Taken From The ISS - Yahoo News
From Yahoo News: Conspiracy theorists believe that it just might be, after an astronaut on the ISS tweeted this picture - with what appears to be a UFO hanging ominously in the top right hand corner. ‘I would find it hard to believe that Scott Kelly did
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Novel support for brain science theory with deep Brown roots
After University of Chicago neuroscientists analyzed data from David Sheinberg at Brown, they produced a new paper in Nature Neuroscience that offers novel support for a theory proposed at Brown in 1982
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Wayward satellites repurposed to test general relativity : Nature News & Comment
Scientists will use wonky orbit to test Einstein’s theories.
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This guy’s ridiculous homemade rail gun shoots ‘ionized plasma’ bullets
Of all the crazy garage-built weapons I’ve ever come across, this one from YouTuber/tinkerer Alex Smyth is definitely one of the craziest. Aside from the fact that it looks like a prop that was stolen from the set of District 9, Smyth’s “phased plas
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Liquid Bonder by Bondic
This liquid bonder, discovered by The Grommet, fixes toys, eyeglasses, jewelry, and more. Bondic works on wood, metal, and even fabric.
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Astronomers are freaking out over this newly discovered Earth-sized planet — and for good reason
A newly discovered exoplanet has a lot of astronomers excited, and for good reason. The...
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Brilliant fireballs are falling to Earth this week in numbers we won't see for another 10 years — here's how to watch
Keep your eyes peeled this week for some spectacular fireballs — extremely bright meteors...
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Mars - Mars rover Curiosity: Images from the Red Planet - Pictures - CBS News
Tracks from the first drives of NASA's Curiosity rover are visible in this image captured by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The rover is seen where the tracks...
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NASA Unveils New ‘Z-2’ Spacesuit Design For Future Mars Missions
NASA Unveils New ‘Z-2’ Spacesuit Design For Future...
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Question Of The Day: Why Do Semi Trucks Have 18 Wheels?
So, how did 18 wheels become a standard for semi trucks? Finally, offloaded cargo would be stored in a warehouse before trucks came to bring those goods to their final destination. Inklings of a different method containerization appeared as earl
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The biggest human-made explosion in history happened 54 years ago this week
The Tsar Bomba was one of the most fearsome devices ever built, a multistage hydrogen bomb that...
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NASA confirms that the ‘impossible’ EmDrive thruster really works, after new tests
Engineer Roger Shawyer’s controversial EmDrive thruster jets back into relevancy this week, as a team of researchers at NASA’s Eagleworks Laboratories recently completed yet another round of testing on the seemingly impossible te
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Full-scale architecture for a quantum computer in silicon: Scalable 3-D silicon chip architecture based on single atom
Researchers have designed a full-scale architecture for a quantum computer in silicon. The new concept provides a pathway for building an operational quantum computer with error correction.
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Einstein Is Right About General Relativity — Again
Using planetary orbits, physicists have confirmed with amazing precision Einstein's theory of general relativity.
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Scientists are days from finding out if that mysterious star could actually harbor aliens - Yahoo Finance
From Yahoo Finance: When SETI astronomer Doug Vakoch heard the news that there might be an alien civilization around...
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Video: Man slices a 130 MPH baseball in half with a Samurai sword
There are some things that simply need to be seen to be believed. And yet, there remain some things that still seem impossible even when you have video evidence staring you right back in the face. Case in point: this incredible video depicting a man slici
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Does Science Argue for or against God?
Why are we here? Literally. The latest science says we shouldn’t be. It says that the chance life exists at all is less than zero. So, is science the greates...
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Astronomers have found a mysterious alien object near a distant star - Business Insider
The discovery of a strange pattern of light surrounding a distant star called KIC 8462852 has mystified even the most sensible astronomers.
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Engineer builds 'working' Thor's hammer that only he can lift
Using powerful electromagnets and a fingeprint scanner, an electrical engineer builds a replica of Thor's hammer Mjolnir that can only be lifted by the worthy.
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What Happens When You Drop A Basketball Off A Dam.
These guys decided that they wanted to test out the Magnus effect, a fascinating phenomenon observable in spinning spherical objects and cylinders. So naturally, they took a basketball up to the top of a 415-foot dam.
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10 Proposed Solutions To The Problems Of Interstellar Travel - Listverse
Right now, interstellar travel and colonization is pretty unlikely. Basic laws of physics suggest that it just can't be done, and for many people, that means it'll never be done. Those people are no...
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Why the Curiosity Rover is Forbidden From Collecting Water on Mars | Mental Floss
This past Monday, NASA announced that they’ve found definitive evidence of liquid water on Mars. The Curiosity rover is currently about 30 miles away from a location where NASA suspects water may flow. While obtaining a physical sample would revolutionize science, it’s forbidden by international law.
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What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like - The Washington Post
Whale-buses, aviation police and new-fangled barbers: A fantastic vision of the future
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Sharpest Pluto photos ever released are in stunning color and changing how we see this perplexing world
NASA has released the sharpest images yet of Pluto. What's more, unlike the usual black-and-white...
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Jaw-dropping Andromeda galaxy photo comprises 37 hours of exposure - CNET
A pair of "backyard" astrophotographers have collaborated to produce a stunning image of our nearest galactic neighbour.
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Astronaut photographs a single airplane from space - CNET
It's a long way from the space station down to Earth, but an astronaut still managed to photograph a tiny airplane from orbit.
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Breakthrough in cloaking technology grabs military's attention
An academic says he and his colleagues have demonstrated a major breakthrough in the quest for invisibility, and he has the military’s attention.
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Graphene Is Turned into Zero-Resistance Wonder Material
Atom-thin layers of carbon can be turned into superconductors — extraordinary materials that conduct electricity without dissipating energy, physicists say. The sheets are known as graphene, and they are made of a single layer of carbon
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An astronaut in space just captured video of a 'blue jet' for the first time
This is the first ever recording of this incredible phenomenon from space.
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Researchers erase memories in mice with a beam of light
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers with member affiliations to several institutions in the U.S. and Japan has developed a new device that allowed them to alter the spines on a neural dendrite in a mouse brain that was first modified naturally by an
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2 Accelerators Find Particles That May Break Known Laws of Physics - Scientific American
The LHC and the Belle experiment have found particle decay patterns that violate the Standard Model of particle physics
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The Math Of Star Trek: How Trying To Solve Fermat's Last Theorem Revolutionized Mathematics - Forbes
People who, like Captain Picard, tried to solve Fermat's Last Theorem ended up revolutionizing math.
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This is Boeing's Starliner: the spacecraft that will take astronauts to the space station - Vox
The vehicle will ferry NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station starting in 2017 or 2018.
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Detecting Ripples in Space-Time, with a Little Help from Einstein
It is an observatory of immense scale — two enormous detectors separated by the bulk of the American continent — but that's what's needed for LIGO to ultimately catch black holes colliding and the explosions of stars.
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Must See: The World's Wonders from Space
Three astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station after taking amazing space photos.
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Star Trek vs. Superman: Who's the Fastest Sci-Fi Spacefarer? (Graphic)
A new graphic pits fictional spaceships and characters against each other in races across the universe.
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Can You Really Go Back in Time by Breaking the Speed of Light? - The Nature of Reality
Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. But if it could, the conventional wisdom goes, it would travel back in time. Is the conventional... Read Full Post
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Are aliens trying to contact us? Mathematical radio waves from deep space baffle scientists
Strange bursts of radio waves detected over the last 15 years have a pattern that can't be explained by any known natural phenomenon.
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Mystery Deepens: Matter and Antimatter Are Mirror Images
Matter and antimatter appear to be perfect mirror images of each other as far as anyone can see, scientists have discovered with unprecedented precision, foiling hope of solving the mystery as to why there is far more matter than antimatt
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Here's what would happen if the sun disappeared right now
Inspired by this intriguing YouTube video, we're going to dive into the tantalizing...
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How Quantum Randomness Saves Relativity
Albert Einstein is famous for two things in physics: the theory of relativity, and hating the randomness of quantum physics. Which makes it delightfully ironic that the latter is needed to preserve the former.
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'107 feet of fire-breathing titanium': A US Air Force major describes flying the fastest plane in history
In the 1960s, when a single military incident had the potential to spark a nuclear war, the US government needed a surveillance plane that absolutely could not be detected, intercepted, or shot down.
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The Stratolaunch Will Soon Be the Largest Plane in the World
Over the years, man has built some truly colossal airplanes. But in 2016, an even larger aircraft is expected to take flight, and when completed, it will officially be the largest plane in the world. That massive aircraft is known as the Stratolaunch.
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Engineers create world's first white laser beam | The Verge
Researchers at Arizona State University have created the world's first white laser beam, according to a new study published in Nature. More work needs to be done to perfect this technology, but...
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NASA just discovered an Earth-like planet - Business Insider
Some scientists believe we're most likely to find life outside of Earth if we look beyond our solar system. Life, they think, could be present on some Earth-like planet orbiting a different sun thousands of light years away.
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Game Of Quarks: A Guide For The Perplexed
Last week, scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of the "pentaquark" particle, clearing up 50 years of false signals and potential sightings, says Marcelo Gleiser.
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We're going to reach Pluto for the first time in history tomorrow — here's how to watch
When it comes to landmark achievements in space exploration, tomorrow — July 14 — will be a...
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Six Things Everyone Should Know About Quantum Physics
Quantum physics can be intimidating, but if you keep these six key concepts in mind, you should be able to improve your understanding of it.
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Here's What Happens When You Put Canned Ravioli In 2,000-Degree Lava
Behold, the most badass way to heat canned ravioli: Just kidding -- it's a terrible idea. Even if you do have molten lava in your backyard, this should go without saying: Don't try this at home
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Boeing just patented a jet engine powered by lasers and nuclear explosions (BA)
With airplane makers constantly on the look out for new and more efficient ways to power their products, this laser engine is the latest idea cooked up by the engineers at Boeing. Modern airliners such as the Boeing Dreamliner are powered by multiple turb
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Possible Signs of Alien Life on Comet: Philae Lander Detects Promising Features
Several features on a comet being explored by the European Space Agency's Philae lander indicate it could be home to alien life, according to two astronomers. While the comet has a black crust darkening much of its surface, astronomers have sp
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US Military's Hypersonic Jet Could Fly 5 Times the Speed of Sound
The U.S. military is reportedly developing a hypersonic jet plane that could soar at up to five times the speed of sound.
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SpaceX just failed at its third attempt to make history, and its 'reusable rocket' just exploded to bits
SpaceX just failed in its third attempt to make history. On Sunday morning it tried and failed...
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Relativity’s time dilation may limit the quantum world | Ars Technica
Theoretical calculations suggest time dilation may cause systems to decohere.
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Time travel and the single atom | Cosmos
Researchers have confirmed one of the most profound thought experiments of quantum physics. In the life of a single atom, present actions appear to affect past events.
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Here's a B-52 Stratofortress and all of its ammunition in one photo
This photo shows the entire arsenal of a B-52 Strartofortress. The standard loadout for this...
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Real-Life 'Jurassic World' Dinos May Be 10 Years Off, Scientist Says
None of these sound quite as terrifying as the reptilian star in
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Do We Need to Rewrite General Relativity? - The Nature of Reality
General relativity, the theory of gravity Albert Einstein published 100 years ago, is one of the most successful theories we have. It has passed every experimental... Read Full Post
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Here’s how big the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park would be in real life
Jack Horner — the paleontologist who's served as technical advisor on all of the Jurassic Park...
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Awesome video shows the giant rocket that America wants to shuttle astronauts to Mars in
A space revolution is coming. Leading the way is a fleet of next-generation rockets that are...
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The Surprisingly Cool History of Ice
Until two centuries ago, ice was just an unfortunate side effect of winter. But in the early 1800s, one man saw dollar signs in frozen ponds.
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These 25 Stunning Reflection Photos Will Turn Your World Upside Down
Reflection photography is a challenging and special sort of photography that requires a good grasp of angles and perspective and an ever-vigilant artist's eye. These 25 photos are just a few examples of the amazing reflection photos that can be taken if y
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Boeing Unveils Amazing, Slightly Terrifying New Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon
With pinpoint accuracy, this electronic warfare drone can black out opposing forces at will.
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We're One Step Closer to Understanding a Moon That Could Be Home to Alien Life
Finding life elsewhere would end our cosmic isolation: if there is life in our own planetary backyard, then life is probably common throughout the universe. These enticing possibilities are why my colleagues and I have spent 17 years developing a spacecra
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Free App Puts NASA Pluto Mission in Palm of Your Hand
A new app lets you follow the progress of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which is in the home stretch of its historic mission to Pluto. New Horizons will make the first-ever flyby of Pluto on July 14, zooming within 7,800 miles (12,500 k
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Watch astronauts dock with the International Space Station
Sometimes reality can be just as stunning as the movies. That's certainly the case with this latest video from NASA. The space agency has released a video documenting the Russian Soyuz capsule as...
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This Math Puzzle For 3rd Graders Is Harder Than It Looks. Can You Solve It?
Get ready for your brain to hurt. Again. A math teacher in Vietnam challenged his third-grade class (read: 8-year-old students) to solve this seemingly simple arithmetic problem. Apparently
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Why don't we have nuclear fusion yet - Business Insider
If fusion power were harnessed directly on Earth, it could produce inexhaustible clean power, using seawater as the main fuel, with no greenhouse gas emissions, no proliferation risk, and no risk of catastrophic accidents.
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Here's why some scientists are convinced there's life on Mars
Mars is no Earth. Our planet is swaddled in a nice atmospheric blanket that protects us from...
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The first spacesuit designed for astronauts on the moon and it looks like Mr. Stay Puft
A decade before Neil Armstrong ever took that first small step on the moon in 1969, NASA engineer...
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Future Laser Space Engine Passes Its First Test
Someday it could get us to the moon within hours and Mars within days
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NASA probe beams back its first color image of Pluto - CNN.com
After more than nine years of traveling through the solar system, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back its first color image of Pluto.
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Science's Path from Myth to Multiverse - Scientific American
In his latest book Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg explores how science made the modern world, and where it might take us from here
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Faster-Than-Light Travel: Are We There Yet?
Long before the Empire struck back, before the United Federation of Planets federated, Isaac Asimov created Foundation, the epic tale of the decline and fall of the Galactic Empire. Asimov’s Empire comprised 25 million planets, knit together by sleek sp
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Spooky Quantum Action Might Hold the Universe Together | WIRED
Tensor networks could connect space-time froth to quantum information.
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US Air Force's Next X-37B Space Plane Mystery Mission to Test Thruster
The U.S. Air Force will test an innovative spacecraft thruster this month when it launches the latest mystery mission of its robotic X-37B space plane. A Hall thruster will be one of the payloads riding on the X-37B space plane when it la
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How To Find A Parallel Universe: Cern Boosts Data Intelligence
CERN is restarting its Large Hadron Collider (after a two-year massive upgrade) to start working on amazing experiments to reveal the identity of “dark matter” and to search for tiny black holes that could be gateways to parallel universes or alternat
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A New Type of Dyson Sphere May Be Nearly Impossible to Detect
Over fifty years ago, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed an awesome, if slightly insane, idea: That an advanced alien civilization might construct a massive, energy-harvesting sphere around its star, and bunk up inside.
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The Eshima Ohashi Bridge In Japan Looks Absolutely Terrifying
We've seen truly terrifying bridges before, but nothing quite as scary-looking as the Eshima Ohashi Bridge in Japan. The bridge, which connects the cities of Matsue and Sakaiminato, appears to go
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Astronauts celebrate #MayThe4thBeWithYou by watching ‘Star Wars’ in space
They apparently watched
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Quantum Computers Will Make Your Laptop Look Like an Abacus
The race to make the first quantum computer is becoming as important as the race 75 years ago to get the first nuke. It could change the balance of power in politics and business.
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Has NASA Really Created A Warp Drive? | IFLScience
Forget blowing bubbles, NASA may be on the path to discovering warp bubbles that will open up every corner of the universe for human exploration. We have broken the speed of sound, but now NASA scientists are tentatively announcing they may have broken t
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Hot times at Yellowstone: huge magma chamber found deeply buried
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deep beneath Yellowstone National Park, one of the world's most dynamic volcanic systems, lies an enormous, previously unknown reservoir of hot, partly molten rock big enough to fill up the Grand Cany
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Einstein's Theory of General Relativity: A Simplified Explanation
Albert Einstein determined that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as gravity.
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NASA's New Horizons probe is visiting Pluto — and just sent back its first color photos - Vox
Soon we'll see Pluto up close for the first time.
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Can you solve the maths question for Singapore schoolkids that went viral?
Singapore usually comes top, or nearly top, of the international rankings in primary maths performance.
And when you read this question – you can see why. It’s an excellent logical puzzle, which will stump most adults.
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Here's what NASA plans to do if an astronaut dies in space
Written in an old memo titled "In Event of Moon Disaster" is Nixon's backup speech for the media in case something went horribly wrong during the moon landing.
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Here’s what happens when 2 proton beams collide at nearly the speed of light
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the largest machine humans have ever built — specializes in hurling protons at each other at nearly the speed of light. It was powered up on April 5 after two years of upgrades.
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NASA Says We're on Verge of Finding Alien Life | WSJ Live
NASA's chief scientist Ellen Stofan predicts that scientists will find signs of alien life by 2025. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: NASA
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'Extinct' No Longer? Brontosaurus May Make a Comeback
The Brontosaurus is back. Because A. excelsus was famously first known as Brontosaurus until 1903, the species would revert back to that original name and become Brontosaurus once again. It's a proposal that excites some paleontologists and leaves ot
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VASIMR Rocket Could Send Humans To Mars In Just 39 Days
A new type of rocket that could send humans to Mars in less than six weeks instead of six months or longer may be one step closer to reality. NASA has selected Texas-based Ad Astra Rocket Company for a round of funding to help develop the Variabl...
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Here's How Long It Would Take To Fall Through The Center Of Earth
Just how long would it take to fall through the center of the Earth, traveling from one side of our planet to the other? Physicists have long calculated the answer to that question as being 42 minutes, but now, new calculations show that the theo...
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How a (Contraband) Corned Beef Sandwich Ended Up in Space 50 Years Ago
Just about two hours into the flight of Gemini 3, NASA's first two-man space mission 50 years ago, pilot John Young reached into his spacesuit's pocket and pulled out a surprise: a corned beef sandwich.
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Boeing patents 'Star Wars'-style force fields - CNET
Aircraft and military manufacturer Boeing has been granted a patent on a system that is designed to prevent explosion shockwaves from harming a target.
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NASA scientist says this is where we'll likely find alien life first
Take a good look at all of the planets and the most-prominent moons in our solar system and ask yourself which one is most ideal for life. Would Earth be your first pick?
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Original Patent For Perforated Toilet Paper On A Roll Solves Over Vs. Under Debate Once And For All – Consumerist
After pitting loved ones and enemies alike against each other for what feels like all of human existence, it seems we may finally have a definitive winner in the "over vs. under" toilet paper drapi...
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Bullet stopped by Water Balloons - YouTube
How many water balloons does it take to stop a bullet.
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We now have the technology to really test Einstein's theory of relativity
A century after Einstein presented his theory of relativity, scientists have the technology to begin looking for evidence that could reveal physics beyond it.
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15 Incredible Facts About the SR-71 Blackbird (With Even MORE Incredible Photos!)
The SR-71 Blackbird was a strategic reconnaissance (SR) aircraft built by Lockheed Martin and designed by Clarence Johnson. It took flight in 1964 and kept going until being retired by NASA in 1999. Although this next-gen-looking aircraft never made it to
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The first space walk happened 50 years ago, and nearly ended in disaster
It is 50 years since humans first encountered space – not Sputnik's first orbit, nor Yuri Gagarin's first spaceflight – but the first time a crew member stepped out from their spacecraft's relative protection and immersed themselves in the cold, hosti
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These NASA Photos of Space Station Crew Landing Are Simply Amazing
From Yahoo News: NASA captured some amazing photos of three International Space Station crewmembers returning to Earth after a 167-day space mission. A second photo shows the sun backlighting both the Soyuz and the clouds as the spacecraft gently descends
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Lasers have turned this metal super hydrophobic - CNET
Researchers have used lasers to create an extremely hydrophobic material with potential applications from sanitation to solar panels.
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What Would It Be Like to Live on Jupiter's Moon Europa?
Building a colony on Jupiter may be impossible, but living at a base on its moon Europa could offer up an experience unlike anything on Earth.
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25% of the people have a 4th cone and see colors as they are
Given the sudden interest for the color of dresses and vision, here some of the fascinating findings we did recently.The color nuances we see depend on the number and distribution of cones (=color receptors) in our eye. You can check this rainbow: how man
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Four ways to break the universe's speed limit
When Albert Einstein first showed that light travels the same speed everywhere in the universe, he essentially stamped a speed limit on our universe: 670,616,629 miles per hour.
But that's not the entire story. In fact, it's just the beginning.
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Strange lights on dwarf planet Ceres have scientists perplexed
A dwarf planet is shining two bright lights at a NASA spacecraft right now, and our smartest scientists are unsure what they are. As bizarre as that sentence sounds, that's the ...
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Scientists discover black hole so big it contradicts growth theory
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Scientists say they have discovered a black hole so big that it challenges the theory about how they grow. Scientists said this black hole was formed about 900 million years after the Big Bang. "Ba
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Could classical theory be just as weird as quantum theory?
Quantum mechanics is often described as 'weird' and 'strange' because it abandons many of the intuitive traits of classical physics. For example, the ideas that the world is objective, is deterministic, and exists independent of measurement are basic feat
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World-leading SuperSTEM microscope that can see single atoms is unveiled
A new super powerful electron microscope that can pinpoint the position of single atoms was unveiled today at the Science and Technology Research Council's Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire. The microscope will help scientists push boundaries even further
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How Can Space Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light?
Cosmologists are intellectual time travelers. Looking back over billions of years, these scientists are able to trace the evolution of our Universe in ast
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The Science of Popping Popcorn
Two French researchers have at last figured out the precise science of how popcorn pops (before you add butter and salt)!
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Mind Blowing... These 23 Unbelievable Facts Will DESTROY Your Understanding Of Time
Time has always perplexed the human race. We’ve tried to define it, track it, and measure it since the emergence of civilization. However, facts like these listed here show us how distorted our perception of time can be and how much we still need to
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NASA releases stunning five-year time lapse of the sun
The Solar Dynamics Observatory, which launched five years ago, has been recording breathtaking images of the Sun.
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Octopus develops serious case of the blues
Jonathan Gordon did not notice the large octopus until it suddenly shed its camouflage, turning a brilliant blue, in what seemed to be a clear warning.
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Scientists Discover Another Earth!
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope recently discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star within the habitable zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f is approximately 500 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation. The habitable zone, also known as
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What Are Capacitors and Will They Really Charge Your Phone in Seconds?
Your phone died. Again. In these scenarios, who among us has not dreamed the dream of a future where our devices charge instantly and last forever. As capacitors—or even more exciting, ultracapacitors—get better and better at storing energy, they coul
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Naked Titan Viewed for First Time
The solar wind stormed past Saturn's moon Titan while a spacecraft watched.
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The Multiverse and you
Is there another version of you somewhere out there in a parallel Universe?
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This Video Lets You Travel at the Speed of Light (Sort Of)
Riding Light is a 45-minute short film/animation that attempts to recreate what it would be like to hitch a ride on the back of a photon and travel from the core of the sun to beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Be prepared to feel completely insignificant.
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Mysterious Space Globule Looks Undeniably Beautiful
Some astronomers call it "God’s Hand." Others say it looks like the gaping mouth of a gigantic celestial creature. Featured in a new image taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, a small cloud of gas and ...
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Mysterious radio signal from space caught live for first time
Astronomers in Australia have picked up an “alien” radio signal from space for the first time as it occurred.
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Here's A Photo Of Something That Can't Be Photographed
This seems like a normal, if blurry photograph of an object — a regular old cat stencil. The catch is, however, that the photons that hit the camera lens couldn't and didn't interact with the stencil in any way. So why can you see it?
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Pulsar Observed Wobbling Out Of Space Time - Vanishing Out Of Our Now
Pulsar Observed Wobbling Out Of Space Time - Vanishing Out Of Our Now - amazing astronomical event witnessed by scientists on Earth...
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How This Stronger-Than-Steel Material Could Change the World
Graphene is 200 times stronger than steel, lighter than paper and razor-thin. If you haven't heard of it yet, you will.
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The Forgotten Space Artist Who Envisioned the End of the Space Race
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Curiosity Rover Drills Into Mars Rock, Finds Water
From Yahoo News: NASA's Curiosity rover is continuing to help scientists piece together the mystery of how Mars lost its surface water over the course of billions of years.
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Watch The U.S. Navy’s New Laser Weapon Take Out Two Ships
From Yahoo News: The U.S. Navy announced Wednesday that a new laser weapon deployed into Persian Gulf earlier this year performed seamlessly during testing that wrapped up in November, and declared the weapon a success.
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Can capacitors in electrical circuits provide large-scale energy storage?
(Phys.org)—Capacitors are widely used in electrical circuits to store small amounts of energy, but have never been used for large-scale energy storage. Now researchers from Japan have shown that the right combination of resistors and capacitors can allo
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15 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in the World
From hieroglyphs indecipherable even today to stories of hikers found dead in unexplainable positions, we count 15 mysteries that have yet to been solved or ...
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Physicists just discovered two new subatomic particles. Here's why that matters
Physics might be the most complex of all scientific fields, and at times, it can be hard to explain its fundamental concepts in basic English. But with the help of Patrick Koppenburg — one of the scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) involved in this new discovery — here's a comprehensible guide to these new particles, the Higgs, and the ongoing experiments at the LHC as a whole.
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Abandoned in Place: Forgotten space launch sites left to the sands of time - CNET
Photographer Roland Miller has made a mission of documenting the abandoned space launch sites left abandoned across America.
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Meet The World's Largest Living Organism | IFLScience
When you think of the biggest organisms on Earth, the blue whale probably springs to mind first. After all, these gargantuan beasts are up to 30 meters long (100 feet) and can weigh upward of 180 tons, meaning they’re probably bigger than even the large
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Clean Sweep: F-35 Fighter Confounds Critics With Perfect Performance In First Tests At Sea
There's a tradition in the U.S. Navy that when missions are a complete success, a broom gets raised up the mast to signal a "clean sweep." That's what happened on November 14 when the F-35C Lightning II completed its first series of developmen
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Squint or You’ll Miss the World’s Smallest Sculptures
British artist Jonty Hurwitz would like to show you his latest work, but you’ll need a magnifying glass to see it. Hurwitz’s new “Nano” sculptures are tiny. Impossibly tiny. Like, too small to see with the naked eye tiny.
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Simon's algorithm run on quantum computer for the first time—faster than on standard computer
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working in South Africa has reported that they've successfully run Simon's algorithm on a quantum computer for the first time. In their paper published in Physical Review Letters, the team describes how they ran the alg
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Tony Hawk Rides a Real Hoverboard, Lives to Skate Another Day
Yesterday, Tony Hawk finally got his feet on a Hendo Hoverboard, the world’s first flying skateboard. Until he fell off, anyway. Here's how the skatboarding king fared.
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The Futuristic Technology That Could Enable Interstellar Travel
Technically savvy scientists and engineers have put much effort into conceiving far-future technologies that might make possible near- light-speed travel. You can learn a lot about their ideas by browsing the web. It will take many centuries for humans to
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The Prynt Case Turns Your Smartphone Into A Polaroid Camera | TechCrunch
Hot off of their Haxlr8r demo day presentation last week, hardware startup Prynt was nice enough to drop by TechCrunch HQ to show off the latest prototypes of..
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Cassini measures depth of biggest sea on Saturn's moon Titan
According to new radar measurements recorded by NASA's Cassini probe, the largest hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan is at least 115 feet deep.
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We just landed a spacecraft on a comet for the first time. Here's why it matters.
We'd landed on six celestial bodies ever. The tiny Philae probe just made it seven.
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The Peres conjecture is false: One of the most famous problems in quantum information physics solved
Since 1999, the conjecture by Asher Peres, who invented quantum teleportation, has piqued the interest of many scientists in the field. According to his hypothesis, the weakest form of quantum entanglement can never result in the strongest manifestation o
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Fast-Acting Nuclear Reactor Will Power Through Piles of Plutonium
Even the latest generation of nuclear power reactors can only harvest about five percent of the energy stored in their radioactive fuel supplies, and the toxic leftovers must then be buried deep underground to slowly decay over hundreds of thousands of ye
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Daring Orion Spaceship Test Flight Is NASA's 1st Step Toward Mars
NASA is getting ready to launch a daring test flight of a capsule that could eventually bring humans to deep-space destinations like Mars or an asteroid. On Dec. 4, NASA officials are expected to launch the Orion spacecraft on its first t
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Physicists propose identification of a gravitational arrow of time
(Phys.org) —A trio of physicists is proposing a new direction for understanding the concept of time. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, Julian Barbour, of College Farm in the U.K., Tim Koslowski of the University of New Bru
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Watch the U.S. military's next-generation fighter jet float in mid-air
The Pentagon's long-awaited and extremely controversial F-35 fighter jet is the most expensive defense program ever. But finally, we may be starting to find out why the Defense Department has gone through all the trouble
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Many Interacting Worlds theory: Scientists propose existence and interaction of parallel worlds
Griffith University academics are challenging the foundations of quantum science with a radical new theory based on the existence of, and interactions between, parallel universes.
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Can the wave function of an electron be divided and trapped?
New research by physicists from Brown University puts the profound strangeness of quantum mechanics in a nutshell—or, more accurately, in a helium bubble.
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How quantum computing could change everything
It could revolutionize encryption — and help us peer even deeper into the underlying fabric of reality
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Superposition revisited: Proposed resolution of double-slit experiment paradox using Feynman path integral formalism
(Phys.org) —The Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment, published in 1926 by Erwin Schrödinger, may be the most widely-known metaphorical explanation of quantum superposition and collapse. (Superposition is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics s
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Tesla's Musk: AI is like 'summoning the demon': Washington Post
Elon Musk is stepping up his warnings about artificial intelligence, according to The Washington Post, saying it was akin to "summoning the demon."
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This is what a 'Star Wars' blaster bolt would look like in real life - CNET
A team of physicists has created a film that shows what a real-life "laser bullet" would look like in action. Hint: it's not like in "Star Wars."
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Comet Siding Spring causes an explosion on Mars
An incredible video, posted to YouTube on Oct. 19, shows the atmosphere of Mars exploding as the Comet Siding Spring passes within 87,000 miles of the Red Planet.
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Lockheed Martin's new fusion reactor can change humanity forever
This is an invention that could change civilization as we know it: A compact fusion reactor developed by Skunk Works, the stealth experimental technology division of Lockheed Martin. It's the size of a jet engine and it can power airplanes, spaceships, an
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Lab Tests Find Confirm Hawking Radiation
A whisper from a lab-manufactured black hole may confirm the existence of radiation predicted by University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking four decades ago. If validated by further research, the finding would offer evidence that particles blinking in and out of existence can rob black holes of mass.
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10 Unsolved Mysteries From Ancient Times
Tourists travel to famous landmarks and spooky destinations every year, hoping for a deeper insight into mysterious structures and what happened within their perimeter thousands of years ago. But...
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iPhone 6 Review | Droid Life
I spent the last two weeks with the iPhone 6 by my side out of both curiosity and to become even more familiar with Android’s biggest competitor. I have seen all that iOS 8 has to offer (at least at this point). I have experienced Apple’s finest. I have experienced Apple’s vision for Android. Yes, I just said that.
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Apple to Hold iPad Event on October 16 | Re/code
Plus, the E.C. clears Facebook-Whatsapp, #beardgate and the worst cat ever.
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Spooky Quantum Physics Demonstration Tonight: How to Watch Live - Yahoo News
From Yahoo News: Dive headlong into the weird world of quantum mechanics tonight (Oct. 1) with Harvard physics professor Subir Sachdev who will explain the link between the strange phenomena of spooky quantum entanglement and the wonder of weightless levi
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Scientists: Water on Earth is older than the sun and solar system - The Week
Some 30 to 50 percent of the water on Earth was created more than 4.5 billion years ago and is older than the solar system and the sun, researchers say.
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Archaeologists discover 'Dracula's Dungeon' in Turkish castle - The Week
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the dungeon that held Vlad the Impaler — the inspiration for Bram Stoker's character Dracula.
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Do We Live in a Multiverse? - The Nature of Reality
Our universe may not be alone. It could just be one of multiple realms making up a “multiverse.” In fact, there are a half-dozen or so... Read Full Post
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Water discovered on Neptune-sized planet outside our solar system
Knowing where to find water will narrow the search for life elsewhere
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Einstein's "Time Dilation" Prediction Verified - Scientific American
Physicists have verified a key prediction of Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity with unprecedented accuracy. Experiments at a particle accelerator in Germany confirm that time moves slower for a moving clock than for a stationary one.
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Jaw-dropping Aurora View Wins 2014 Astronomy Photo Contest
From Yahoo News: A bright green aurora reflects off a glacial lake against the backdrop of a snow-covered mountain range in an incredible photo that took home first prize in an astrophotography competition. Representatives of the Royal Observatory in Gree
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Longer distance quantum teleportation achieved
Physicists at the University of Geneva have succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal over 25 kilometers of optical fiber.
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Particle detector finds hints of dark matter in space
Researchers at MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science have released new measurements that promise to shed light on the origin of dark matter.
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Apple iPhone 6 pre-orders hit record 4 million on first day - Yahoo Finance
From Yahoo Finance: Apple Inc said many customers will need to wait until next month for their new iPhones after a record 4 million first-day pre-orders were logged, double the number for the iPhone 5 two years ago. The company ...
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Propellentless drive tested by NASA could enable expeditions to Saturn - Houston Space news | Examiner.com
Debate is still ranging in physics and aerospace cycles over a pair of engine designs, the EMDrive and the Cannae Drive, that are alleged to provide some form o
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How Many People Have Walked on the Moon?
Ask someone if they know the names of the astronauts who have walked on the Moon, and most people would be able to list Neil Armstrong, and maybe even Buzz Aldrin. But can you name the rest of the Apollo
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Image: Orion's first crew module complete
NASA's first completed Orion crew module sits atop its service module at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew and service module will be transferred together on Wednesday to another facility for
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Apple announces 4.7" iPhone 6 and 5.5" iPhone 6 Plus: New design, A8 CPU, Retina HD display
Apple's hotly anticipated next generation of iPhone was officially unveiled on Tuesday in two different screen sizes of 4.7 and 5.5 inches, both sporting all-new designs and even higher resolution Retina HD displays.
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'Telepathy' experiment sends 1st mental message - Yahoo News
From Yahoo News: For the first time, scientists have been able to send a simple mental message from one person to another without any contact between the two, thousands of miles apart in India and France. Research led by experts at Harvard University show
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New Time Travel Simulation May Resolve 'Grandfather Paradox'
On June 28, 2009, the world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking threw a party at the University of Cambridge, complete with balloons, hors d'oeuvres and iced champagne. Everyone was invited but no one showed up. Hawking had expected as much, because he ...
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The surge in hidden swimming pools
From Yahoo Homes: Now you see it, now you don’t. With the click of a button, you can make your pool disappear.
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International Space Station Finds Life In Space, But What The TARDIS Are These ‘Aliens’ The Tardigrades?
The international space station has found life in space, but the discovery of these "tardigrades" by cosmonauts has Russian scientists saying how they are both
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New Earth-Size Planet Found
Not too big, not too small. Not too hot, not too cold. A newly discovered planet looks just right for life as we know it, according to an international group of astronomers. Orbiting a star abou...
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Voyager 2's view of solar system's edge will be unique - space - 29 August 2014
There's reason to think Voyager 2's sensors will pick up changes that contrast with what Voyager 1 saw en route to the edge of interstellar space
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It Turns Out Black Holes Can Be Medium-Sized, Too
Black holes do indeed come in three sizes: small, medium and extra large, a new study suggests. Astronomers have studied many black holes at either size extreme — "stellar-mass" black holes, which are a few dozen times as weighty as...
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Power of the Sun: Elusive Solar Neutrinos Detected, a Cosmic First
Tiny particles forged in the heart of the sun have been detected for the first time, offering scientists a glimpse into the nuclear fusion core of our closest star. The subatomic particles, called neutrinos, are hallmarks of the dominant
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New quantum camera capable of snapping photos of 'ghosts'
Spooky quantum cameras can capture images from photons that never encountered the objects pictured.
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NASA Unveils Best Map Ever of Neptune's Moon Triton (Photo, Video)
A scientist has created the best-ever global color map of Neptune's big moon Triton, using images taken by a NASA spacecraft 25 years ago.
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100 Year Old Life Hacks That Still Work Today - Gallaher Brand Cigarette Cards
You'll be amazed by how well these old-timey tips hold up. - Gallaher Brand Cigarette Cards #life hacks, #lifestyle, #people, #wins, #history
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Signs of New Physics from the LHC - Scientific American
Physics is at an impasse. The path its practitioners have been following for decades, known as the Standard Model, came to a triumphant end in 2012, when researchers found the model's last undiscovered particle, the Higgs boson.
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Image: 25 years ago, Voyager 2 captured images of Neptune
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first glimpse of Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989. This picture of Neptune was produced from the last whole planet images taken through the green and orange filters on the Voyager 2 narrow ang
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Supersonic subs look to cross the Pacific in under two hours
The distance between Shanghai and San Francisco is around 6,135 miles (9,873 km), and a team of scientists aims to make that trip possible in 100
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Weirdest Worm Ever? Clawed Creature Finds Its Family Tree
From Yahoo News: When researchers first discovered the fossil worm Hallucigenia in the 1970s, they were so perplexed they identified its head as its tail and its legs as its spines. The finding is surprising because it rewrites the evolutionary history of
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Look at what two years on Mars did to the Curiosity Rover
NASA's Curiosity rover just finished its second year exploring Mars, and the red planet's harsh environment has taken its toll. Rocky terrain, tricky sand dunes, and Martian dust storms have left the robot looking a little worse for wear.
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The demon core: A scary story of sloppy science from the Manhattan Project
I think we can all agree that the physicists, engineers, and chemists who worked on the Manhattan Project -- which ultimately ended World War II -- were consummate geniuses and paragons of professionalism. Except they weren't. The demon core of plutonium
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Octopus inspires new camouflage material - Yahoo News
From Yahoo News: Creatures of the ocean known as cephalopods -- including cuttlefish, squid and octopuses -- are naturally equipped with sensors in their skin that help in some way to mimic the look of their surroundings. The team's initial result, descri
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Saturn's Rings Are 4.4 Billion Years Old, New Cassini Findings Suggest
Saturn’s spectacular ring system may date back some 4.4 billion years to the time when the planet itself formed, new findings suggest. The work could help to resolve a long-running debate about whether the rings are ancient or formed much more ...
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Are White Holes Real? - The Nature of Reality
Sailors have their krakens and their sea serpents. Physicists have white holes: cosmic creatures that straddle the line between tall tale and reality. Yet to be... Read Full Post
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Forget Space Travel: Build This Telescope | Seth Shostak
If the type of telescope described here can be built, then the tyranny of distance is vanquished. You can forget deep space probes and their long travel times. We could explore alien worlds in the comfort of our own homes, as our laptops scroll and z...
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What?! The Universe Appears to Be Missing Some Light
Scientists have found that a huge amount of ultraviolet light is missing from the universe.
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This Gorgeous Image From Hubble Shines New Light On Old Cosmic Mystery
Holy Hubble! It's been almost 25 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed in 1990, but the orbiting observatory keeps sending exciting new images. Just check out one of Hubble's latest images below, featuring a brilliant globular cluste...
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Specks returned from space may be alien visitors
From Yahoo News: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — There may be itsy-bitsy aliens among us.
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Quantum Particles Take the Road Most Traveled
From Yahoo News: For the first time ever, physicists have mapped the path that particles are most likely to take when moving from one quantum state to another. In physics, a concept called the "path of least action" describes the trajectory that
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Scientists Create Water-Based Tractor Beam That Can Control Floating Objects
From Yahoo News: Physicists at Australian National University have taken a bold step toward “Star Trek” tech with their latest invention — a water-based tractor beam that could eventually be used to clean up oil spills and control floating objects.
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Amazing Andromeda Galaxy View Captured by Amateur Astronomer
From Yahoo News: This stunning image is of the Andromeda Galaxy captured over the dark night sky in Portugal.
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NASA probe sees Pluto and its moon Charon like never before
A NASA spacecraft hurtling toward a 2015 rendezvous with Pluto has captured an amazing video of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon.
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NASA Releases AWESOME Footage Of Its Flying Saucer Near-Space Test Flight
From Yahoo News: NASA on Friday released a video of its new “Flying Saucer” landing system’s recent near-space test flight, which demonstrates in amazing detail how the combination of systems will land the next generation Mars rover on the red plane
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Historic astronaut's moon mission
45 years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second man to ever set foot on the moon.
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Galaxy's Huge Black Hole Puts On Awesome Fireworks Show (VIDEO)
The supermassive black hole at the center of a far-off galaxy is putting on a fireworks display of cosmic proportions. Scientists captured the brilliant display in new images and a video tour of the spiral galaxy Messier 106 (also called NGC 4258)....
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NASA tested an impossible space engine and it somehow worked
NASA has been testing new space travel technologies throughout its entire history, but the results of its latest experiment may be the most exciting yet — if they hold up. Earlier this week at a...
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Octopus sets record for motherly care - GrindTV.com
Researchers observed octopus guarding its eggs in same location 18 times over more than four years. The loyal deep-sea creature was observed at 4,600 feet.
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This is easily the greatest iPhone accessory we’ve ever seen
From Yahoo News: It’s not always easy to find innovative, high-quality iPhone accessories amid all the garbage out there. We discussed the problem recently while reviewing the only iPad stylus you should care about, and it will remain an issue for the f
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11 Things You Didn’t Know About The Apollo Missions
For starters, the Moon smells gross.
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Robotic 'Pack Mule' Can Take On Any Terrain
No, you're not watching a scene from "Transformers."
The U.S. Military released new footage on July 13, 2014 of the Legged Squad Supports System robot, which behaves sort of like a futuristic mule, being tested in an open field at the Kahuku Training Area in Hawaii. Just check it out in the YouTube video above.
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Military's Space Plane Program Eyes Future Hypersonic Flight
A new unmanned military space plane is being developed to launch small satellites into orbit and serve as a test bed for a futuristic fleet of hypersonic vehicles. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the government agency responsible fo
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Missing square puzzle
The missing square puzzle is an optical illusion used in mathematics classes to help students reason about geometrical figures.
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Hubble telescope spots bizarre 'string of pearls' formation in space
NASA's Hubble Space Telescop has captured imaged of a 100,000-light-year-long string of star clusters wrapping around the cores of two merging galaxies.
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Confirmed: Voyager 1 in Interstellar Space
New data collected by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft have helped scientists confirm that the far-flung probe is indeed cruising through interstellar space, the researchers say. Voyager 1 made headlines around the world last year when mission scientists
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Rescued space probe fires its thrusters for the first time in almost 20 years
The resurrected ISEE-3 space probe fired its thrusters for the first time in almost 20 years this weekend. The probe was launched by NASA in 1978 to measure solar winds, but decommissioned in 1997...
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Dubai to build climate-controlled 'city', largest mall
Dubai is planning to build a temperature-controlled city featuring the world's largest mall and an indoor park, as well as hotels, health resorts and theatres, the developer said. Already home to one of the globe's biggest indoor shopping comple
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How Much Would It Cost to Build the Starship Enterprise?
So you want to build the Enterprise. Don't we all! Well good news: according to some quick, messy, napkin math, it's possible. Kind of. The bad news? It's going to be stupid expensive. But not unfathomably so! Start scrounging up your space-pe
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Scientists discover one of the most Earthlike planets yet
Sci News is reporting that astronomers at the University of New South Wales have discovered an Earthlike planet just 16 light-years away. The planet, dubbed Gliese 832c, is orbiting a red dwarf...
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Higgs quest deepens into realm of 'New Physics'
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 mysteries. The better they become acquainted with the Hig
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Apple Inc. to Launch Another Entirely New Product Besides the iWatch?
Apple is ready to grow its business, and it's not stopping at a smartwatch. - Daniel Sparks - Tech and Telecom
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Higgs boson confirms reigning physics model yet again
While the elusive particle has reaffirmed the Standard Model of physics, the model still cannot account for dark matter or gravity.
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Nasa’s out-of-this-world plan to rescue a Space Shuttle
A retired Nasa engineer reveals details of a daring plan that could have been used to rescue a shuttle crew facing certain death stranded in orbit.
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Scientists Have Discovered A Planet They Thought Was Impossible
Based on what we know about how solar systems...
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SpaceX Just Unveiled Its Brand-New Capsule For Taking Astronauts To Space
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the...
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NASA's New Mega-Rocket, Orion Capsule on Track for Future Test Flights
A new era of space exploration — supported by a history-making new mega-rocket and a spacecraft designed to deliver humans into deep space — could be on the horizon for NASA. The huge launcher, called the Space Launch System (SLS), will move a new sp
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The Weirdest Object in the Universe
100 times hotter than the Sun, as long as Manhattan, 400 trillion times as dense as water, with a pull 100 trillion times stronger than Earth’s magnetic field. Meet the neutron star.
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Watch the Remarkable Shrinking of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot | Science | WIRED
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — one of the most iconic and well known features in the solar system — is shrinking, and nobody knows why.
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WATCH: Vast Solar Flare Is One For The Record Books
This stupendous solar flare is one for the record books. The X-class flare erupted from the sun's surface on March 29, 2014, and NASA scientists say it's the best-observed flare of all time. Just watch the NASA Goddard YouTube video above for all ...
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Wow! NASA Spacecraft Sees Earthrise from the Moon (Photo)
The Earth rises spectacularly as a tiny blue marble above the moon in a new NASA photo that hints at the fragility of humanity and the vastness of space. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the image on Feb. 1 with its wide-angle camera, depi
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Crazy Video: UFO Attacks, Destroys Taliban Camp In Afghanistan
It was filmed by US marines in the Asadabad District of Afghanistan back in March mere weeks after the Taliban had staged a massive attack on an Afghan army base in the same district killing dozens...
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Relive Alan Shepard's Harrowing Trip to Space With a View From His Cockpit
53 years ago today, Alan Shepard became the second human to visit space. The first person in space, Russian Yuri Gagarin, completed an orbit of the Earth almost a month before Shepard's 15-minute voyage. Gagarin's craft was fully automated, but Shepard had some control over the Freedom 7...
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Boeing's New Space Capsule Is Straight Out Of 'Star Trek'
Boeing's new space capsule will rocket crews to the International Space Station in style.
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Huge cylindrical UFO captured by Mars Curiosity Rover
The latest images released by Mars Curiosity Rover show what appears to be a very large cylindrical shaped UFO traveling in the Martian night sky. The UFO appea
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Could Tiny 'Black Hole Atoms' Be Elusive Dark Matter?
Dark matter, the invisible and mysterious stuff that makes up most of the material universe, might be hiding itself in microscopic black holes, says a team of Russian astrophysicists. Astronomers have been on the hunt for dark matter for decades now, us
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Unique Crystals: Newfound Purple-Pink Mineral Is Like No Other
A new purple-pink mineral that has a chemical composition and crystalline structure unlike any of the known 4,000 minerals has been discovered at a mining site in Western Australia, researchers report. Now called putnisite, the mineral was discovered in a
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NASA discovers the sun has an icy neighbor - The Week
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Spit on this: Tiny power generator utilizes unexpected fuel source in human saliva
Micro-sized fuel cell powered by human saliva could lead to tiny implantable medical devices with many uses.
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Scientists Finally Find The Source Of A Mysterious 'Quacking' Sound In The Southern Ocean
Guess what — it's not a duck!
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Stunning Hubble Telescope View Reveals Deep View of Universe (Video, Image)
A new photo from NASA's Hubble space telescope captures a variety of celestial objects both near and far, providing a glimpse of many different stages of cosmic history all at once. The Hubble image, released Thursday (April 17), is a 14-hour exposur
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Total Lunar Eclipse and Solar 'Ring of Fire' Top April's Stargazing Events
The best celestial events in April include eclipses of the sun and moon, a meteor shower and good opportunities to see Vesta and Ceres, the two biggest space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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US Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Shatters Orbital Endurance Record
The U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane has broken its own all-time endurance record in orbit after more than 470 days of circling the Earth on a mystery mission for the American military. The miniature space shuttle launched on Dec. 11, 2012
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Super-Cheap Paper Microscope Could Save Millions of Lives
Imagine if clinics in developing countries were equipped with an inexpensive yet durable tool that could help medical personnel identify and diagnose a variety of deadly diseases like Malaria, Chagas disease, or Leishmaniosis?
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Paradox Solved? How Information Can Escape from a Black Hole
Every black hole conceals a secret — the quantum remains of the star from which it formed, say a group of scientists, who also predict that these stars can later emerge once the black hole evaporates. The researchers call these objects
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This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes | Elite Daily
The reading game is about to change forever. Boston-based software developer Spritz has been in
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Water Found in Atmosphere of Nearby Alien Planet
Water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of one of the first alien planets ever identified by astronomers. Advances in the technique used to scan the atmosphere of this
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This stunning infographic shows where our 25 active space missions are - The Week
Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is now 11.3 billion miles from the sun
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Matter of Mystery: Antimatter Beam Could Help Solve Physics Puzzle
A new experiment at a Swiss physics laboratory has, for the first time, successfully produced a stream of antimatter hydrogen atoms that could help answer a fundamental physics question. The new achievement, which is detailed today (Jan. 21) in the journa
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Mysterious rock found by Mars rover: 'We were absolutely startled'
As NASA's Mars rover Opportunity continues its trek across the red planet, discoveries keep rolling in. Like, for example, a jelly doughnut-size rock that mysteriously appeared in front of the rover.
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Here Are 22 Animals You Didn't Know Exist. A Couple Will Haunt My Dreams But #19 Is My New Favorite.
That last one, I wish I still didn't know it exists.
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Speedy Octopus Sets Record for Jar Opening
Speedy Octopus Sets Record for Jar Opening
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This Girl Spent $30,000 Converting Her House Into... WHAT? I Don't Know If This Is Nerdy Or Awesome.
There's a certain group of people that will LOVE this girl.
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The scary facts about DHMO
Dihydrogen Monoxide resources, information, research and more. Dihydrogen Monoxide is a dangerous chemical. Buy a Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide T-shirt.
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Fast-Spinning Star Tests Einstein's General Relativity Theory
A unique triple-star system may help scientists resolve some of the gravitational conflicts behind general relativity and alternate theories of gravity. A dense, fast-spinning star known as a millisecond pulsar closely orbits one white dwarf star, as the
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Dogs poop in line with Earth’s magnetic field, says study | The Raw Story
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Earthrise from Apollo 8 | National Air and Space Museum
Earthrise as seen from Apollo 8 spacecraft while orbiting the Moon in December, 1968.
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The World's Most Deadliest Animals You Don't Know About
Everyone talks about sharks and snakes, but there is an abundance of other dangerous animals on Earth -- meet the world's deadliest animals you don't know!
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Physicists Find a Link between Wormholes and Spooky Action at a Distance
Physicists Find a Link between Wormholes and Spooky Action at a Distance
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'Spectacular' Crash On Jupiter Moon Europa May Have Delivered Life's Building Blocks
A new look at data from a NASA spacecraft has revealed evidence a colossal impact on Jupiter's moon Europa, a collision that may have delivered key minerals and perhaps even the raw ingredients for life, scientists say. The cosmic crash scene, which
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5 Reasons Cats Are Strange
The more time you spend with your cat, the more you’ll probably start to notice - she’s got some weird habits, doesn’t she? We decided to look at 5 of the most common odd cat behaviors and get to the root of why they do them.
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9 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life
These nine planets represent our best hope for alien life beyond the solar system, according to the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo.
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Found! First Known Predator To Lure Prey By Mimicking Flowers
The orchid mantis, which resembles a flower, takes on this appearance in order to lure in prey, researchers say. In fact, orchid mantises are even better at drawing in insects than some actual blossoms;
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Seeing Coldest Blobs in the Universe in New Light
Physicists have come up with a new way to gaze longingly at some of the weirdest matter on Earth — the super-cold, super-calm gas called a Bose-Einstein condensate. While scientists have been able to steal quick glimpses of the unusual gas, until now, s
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Mysterious fish with whip-like tail and cone-shaped snout identified as a long-nosed chimaera | GrindTV.com
A freakish-looking fish hauled recently from the chilly depths of northeastern Canada has been identified as a long-nosed chimaera. The identity of the fish, which [...]
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The Big Reveal In Apple's Upcoming iPhone 6
It looks as though Apple is finally prepping a curved or bendable display for its smartphone range, along with larger screen sizes. On flexible displays though it is a long way behind arch-rival Samsung and may pay a price for complacency.
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3D Printing App Makes Object Creation Easier For Windows 8.1 Users
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Guts of Superfast Black Hole Jets Revealed
Astronomers have taken an unprecedented look at the superenergetic jets blasted out by black holes, and thus have answered a key question about the composition of these mysterious beams.
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10 muscle car-era features that need to come back
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NASA Spacecraft Finds Bounty of Alien Planets, Including 104 Potentially Habitable Worlds
The search for other Earth-like planets in the galaxy got a major boost today (Nov. 4) with the discovery of hundreds of newfound alien planets identified by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, a haul that includes 104 strange, new worlds that could potentiall
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Jupiter and the Moon Rendezvous Tonight: How to Watch
If you are up late on this last Friday night (Oct. 25) in October — or during the predawn hours of Saturday (Oct. 26) — two objects will likely immediately catch your eye if the sky is clear: a waning gibbous moon and Jupiter.
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Alien Planet Count Passes 1,000 Worlds, a Milestone
Just two decades after first spotting planets orbiting a star other than our own sun, astronomers have notched a big milestone — the 1,000th alien planet.
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Ancient Galaxy Is Farthest Ever Seen
Scientists have discovered the most distant and ancient galaxy ever spotted.
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NASA's New Moon Probe Enters Lunar Orbit
NASA's newest lunar probe is officially orbiting the moon.
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Water on Mars: Curiosity Rover Uncovers a Flood of Evidence
LONDON — Water, water everywhere, and some of it fit to drink.
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New Alien Life Claim Far from Convincing, Scientists Say
A new study that claims to present evidence of alien life is being met with a healthy dose of skepticism in the scientific community.
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Moon Water Discovery Hints at Mystery Source Deep Underground
A spacecraft has spotted water on the lunar surface that originated deep within the moon. The find marks the first detection of
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Mysterious 'horned' sea monster washes ashore in Spain
A mysterious sea creature featuring what appear to be horns on its head was discovered in the advanced stages of decomposition along the shoreline [...]
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Glowing Northern Lights Dance in Real-Time in Spectacular Aurora Video
If you can't make it to Sweden to see the Northern Lights, the next best thing is a new video of the aurora lights compiled from thousands of hours of observations by videographer Chad Blakley.
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Adorable new mammal species found 'in plain sight'
New mammal species discovered: a raccoon-like critter with teddy bear looks WASHINGTON (AP) — Imagine a mini-raccoon with a teddy bear face that is so cute it is hard to resist, let alone overlook. But somehow science did — until now. Researchers anno
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California billionaire unveils futuristic 'Hyperloop' transport
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California billionaire Elon Musk took the wraps off his vision of a futuristic Hyperloop transport system on Monday, proposing to build a solar-powered network of crash-proof
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Chinese man tries to board plane with pet turtle disguised as hamburger | Death and Taxes
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People gather around the restored space shuttle Galileo from the 1960's television show Star Trek is unveiled at Space Center Houston Wednesday, July 31, 2013, in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
View the photo People gather around the restored space shuttle Galileo from the 1960's television show Star Trek is unveiled at Space Center Houston Wednesday, July 31, 2013, in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan) on Yahoo! TV. Find more photos in our p
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City Of Hope Researchers May Have Found Key To Cure Cancer, End Obesity - CBS Los Angeles
Researchers at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte may have found the key to ending obesity and curing cancer.
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Newly-discovered ridiculously strong shrew species helps explain strange spine design
In equatorial Africa is a small shrew that can bear the weight of an adult human for minutes at a time, and then walk away unharmed. This animal, the armored shrew, has become known as the hero...
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Landing on the Moon :July 20, 1969
Go For Landing on the Moon LunarLanding July 20, 1969 4:18 p.m. EDT Sea of Tranquillity http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo11/index.html
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Meet ATLAS!
Say hello to ATLAS, one of the most advanced humanoid robots ever built! ATLAS was developed for DARPA by Boston Dynamics. Software-focused teams from Tracks...
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Disabled duck with new foot starts his victory laps
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Buttercup the peg-legged duck showed off his new webbed foot Tuesday, waddling into the hearts of workers who helped make his new prosthesis a reality. The domestic white duck, born last
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Russian astronauts take spacewalk at space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two space station astronauts took care of a little outside maintenance Monday.
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LOOK: This Might Be The World's Oldest Cat
On March 6, a British cat called Wadsworth celebrated his 27th birthday, possibly making him the world's oldest feline. Waddy, as he is more commonly known, is named after the British beer.
