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Incredibly Complicated Physics Explained with Sheep and Canada (No, Really!) [Video]





If you measure two identical items, one in feet, and another in centimeters, there's no difference, right? Just do the conversion, and you'll see that the two objects are the same size, in both feet and i...
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Could a 21st Century USS Enterprise Really Fly?
A model of the USS Enterprise. Image: Louie Kenny/Flickr
Only an imagination made of stone could fail to stir at the thought of a real-world USS Enterprise blasting away from Earth within 20 years, reaching Mars in three months and restoring a sense of ep...
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…BUT PHYSICS RULES!



…BUT PHYSICS RULES!
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Chinese Physicists Smash Quantum Teleportation Record

By Mark Brown, Wired UK
A group of Chinese engineers have smashed the records for quantum teleportation, by creating a pair of entangled photons over a distance of almost 100 kilometers.
Quantum entanglement is the mysterious phenomenon where two particl...
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How One Infinity Can Be Bigger Than Another [Video]





Infinity is a pretty difficult concept for us to grasp. The world we live in is full of limitations, so the idea that something can go on and on, forever and ever, doesn't come naturally to us. And to mak...
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A Water Droplet and a Space Station Are the Ultimate Way To Visualize Sound [Video]





You might think the trippy animated visualizations in your media player are the best way to see your music. But astronaut Don Pettit has found a better way—and all it requires is a small set of spea...
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Quantum Object Teleported 100 Kilometers by Chinese Scientists [Physics]





Though quantum teleportation has existed for well over 10 years, it has never actually happened at a distance that would be of any use to people in the real world. But for the first time, Chinese researche...
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How an Oxford Professor Turned Roulette Odds in His Favor [Gambling]





If you're gonna cheat, cheat smart. Like an Oxford math professor, who has revealed how he used the world's first wearable computer to beat the roulette tables of Las Vegas back in the 1970s. More ...
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We May Absorb 60 Dark Matter Particles an Hour [Space]





WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) are a theoretical class of matter that are suspected of being the elusive "dark matter" that presumably constitutes 80 percent of the Universe. A new study by U...
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Physicists Succeed in Making ‘Impossible’ Gamma-Ray Lens

By Jon Cartwright, ScienceNOW
Lenses are a part of everyday life—they help us focus words on a page, the light from stars, and the tiniest details of microorganisms. But making a lens for highly energetic light known as gamma rays had been thought imposs...
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FRANCE



FRANCE
knows no such thing as physics
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An Amazing Vintage Video About the World's First Accurate Atomic Clock [Video]





This short video, made at the UK's National Physical Laboratory, proudly explains the science behind the world's first accurate atomic clock. It was designed by Louis Essen and built at the National Physi...
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Did Scientists Really Just Break the Speed of Light? [Science]





Today, you might read that scientists have developed a way to produce faster-than-light travel. But steady, there: we've been burnt once recently, so let's not let it happen again. Did scientists really ma...
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What Would Happen If You Put Your Hand in the LHC's Beam? [Video]





A while back, Sixty Symbols asked a bunch of physicists what they thought would happen if you were to place your hand in the particle beam at the LHC and... none of them knew. Now they've done some diggin...
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DR. REED RICHARDS



DR. REED RICHARDS
welcome to his physics class
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How, When, and Why Moore's Law Will Finally Collapse [Video]





One day, Moore's Law will no longer hold true. This rule says computer power doubles every 18 months. But just how will it break down? And when? In the video above, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explai...
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This Explanation of the Multiverse Is a Heavy But Delicious Sunday Brunch [Video]





Here's a TED talk you must watch: Brian Greene explains why there is a multiverse, the theory that we live in one of many different universes. All to answer this question: Why do we humans find ourselves ...
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PHYSICS



PHYSICS
I broke them again
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Dating Fails: Clever, But It Still Doesn’t Take Into Account the Whole “Floating in Ice Water” Thing



Sure there’s enough surface area for two people, but you’re also likely to sink when two people climb onto a wooden door floating in water.

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Electrons Can Split Into Two [Science]





Until now, electrons have been regarded as elementary particles—which means that scientists thought they had no component parts or substructure. But now, electrons have been observed decaying into tw...
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Inside the Office of Albert Einstein [Image Cache]





Today is the anniversary of Albert Einstein's death in 1955. His passing was a huge loss, not just to physics but the entire academy—and, in the hours following his demise, photographer Ralph Morse m...
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Physicist Writes Mathematical Study to Avoid Traffic Ticket

By Katie Scott, Wired UK
A physicist faced with a fine for running a stop sign has proved his innocence by publishing a mathematical paper, and has even won a prize for his efforts.
Dmitri Krioukov is a physicist based at the University of California in...
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Is There Really a Fourth Dimension? Yes and No [Video]





It's time to spend another lethargic Monday morning wrapping your head around Minute Physics' latest crash course in science. This time around they explain why trying to name or number the multiple dimens...
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Video: Bizarre Magnetic Ferrofluids Will Blow Your Mind
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Future Internets Will Be Powered by Quantum Particles [Physics]





Like quantum physics? What about quantum computers? Or quantum computers in a diamond? Then you should know that researchers at the Max Planck Institute have appropriately devised a way to create a quantum...
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GOOD POINT



GOOD POINT
too bad you can’t spell “theoretical”
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How Is This Water Frozen in Time? [Video]





What kind of YouTube witchery is this? Four hundred years ago, we'd all be burned for watching this video—the man's made a stream of water stand completely still in the air. How'd he do it? More&...
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Holy Memorandum! The Secret to Bats' Super-Efficient Flight Could Help Make Better Military Drones [Science]





When a team of biologists, physicists, and engineers at Brown University put their heads together to look at batwings, they discovered how wings on everything from military vehicles to batman could become ...
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Why We Often Measure Distances In Time [Video]





Distances are typically documented using specific measurement terms like inches, feet, and even miles. But when someone asks you how far it is to the mall, you'll usually respond with a measurement of tim...
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Video: Fly Through the World’s Most Powerful X-ray Laser

A few millionths of a second is all it takes for electrons to traverse the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, but this new time-lapse video (above) makes the half-mile trip in 37 seconds.
The Linac Coherent Light Source, or LCLS, uses magnets to ac...
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The One-Minute Explanation of Einstein's Most Famous Equation: E=mc2 [Video]


Most of us don't know much about Einstein. Minutephysics has spent the past month trying to beat a little context into our pea-sized dummy brains beyond, like, E=mc2. But it's about time we got to learning the big one. More »...
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Physicists Add 11 Colors to the Rainbow By Tearing Apart Atoms [Physics]





True, the pink is a lie. But a UC Santa Barbara research team has honestly just generated eleven new hues using lasers and ion cascades. More »



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Particle-Wave Duality Shown With Largest Molecules Yet

By Matthew Francis, Ars Technica
One of the deepest mysteries in quantum physics is the wave-particle duality: every quantum object has properties of both a wave and a particle. Nowhere is this effect more beautifully demonstrated than in the double-slit...
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Lunar Halos, Septuple Rainbows and Iridescent Meat: Incredible Optics Photos
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Laser-Tuned Nuclear Clock Would Be Accurate for Billions of Years

Researchers have proposed building a nuclear clock that would lose only one-tenth of a second over 14 billion years, the current age of the universe.
The design would be 100 times more accurate than current atomic clocks and might be used in applications...
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Meet CERN’s New Artist in Residence, Julius von Bismarck [Art]





Julius von Bismarck is only 28 years old, but his artistic resumé is already several pages long. He's currently taking time off from school to be the new artist in residence at CERN - the world's biggest p...
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How Einstein (Sort of) Fixed All of Physics with the Special Theory of Relativity [Video]





The Special Theory of Relativity. It's the most famous thing the most famous physicist ever did, but what makes it so special? Turns out, it helped prove that we could, uhh, move. Seriously. Here's the la...
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Not So Fast: More Evidence Neutrinos Aren’t Defying Einstein

By John Timmer, Ars Technica
We now have yet another indication that neutrinos cannot travel faster than the speed of light after all, provided by a neighbor of the OPERA detector that set off the fuss in the first place. OPERA’s detector sits deep...
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Scientists Manipulate Electrons Into Material Never Seen on Earth [Science]





Stanford scientists have created designer electrons that behave as if they were exposed to a magnetic field of 60 Tesla—a force 30 percent stronger than anything ever sustained on Earth. The work co...
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Starling Flocks Behave Like Flying Magnets
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
To achieve their extraordinary coordination, starling flocks in flight behave mathematically like metals becoming magnetized, researchers say.
The same group previously described aspects of starling flocking with equations use...
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Strange Effects: The Mystifying History of Neutrino Experiments
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The First-Ever Images of Atoms Moving Inside a Molecule [Science]





Ohio State University researchers have captured the first-ever images of atoms moving within a molecule using a novel technique that turns one of the molecules own electrons into a kind of flash bulb. The ...
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Eureka? Evidence of the Higgs Boson Mounts

After a 10-year search, two experiments from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois report hints of what may be the Higgs boson. The finding bolsters results announced last year from CERN’s LHC experiments, which may have spotted the elu...
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Scientists Create 230-Percent Efficient LED Bulbs [Lighting]





Light bulbs have always required more electricity than they need to produce light because the energy conversion process—changing electricity to light—was inefficient. But an MIT research team h...
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What Exactly Is a Year and How Is It Measured? [Video]





We all know that February 29th only exists every four years, but do you know what exactly a year is? Or how we came to that measurement? Minute Phsyics does, and they're happy to enlighten you in their la...
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A Crash Course In Matter [Video]





Minute Physics has undertaken the daunting task of explaining the Theory of Everything. But not surprisingly, it's going to take more than just a couple of minutes. So they've broken it down into smaller ...
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SHADOWS

SHADOWS
this chair does not need them
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Physicists Pinpoint W Boson, Narrow Search for Higgs

Scientists have produced the most precise measurement of a fundamental particle called the W boson. It will help them search for the elusive Higgs boson, the discovery of which would be an epoch-making event.
The W boson’s new mass is 80.387 giga e...
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Faster-than-Light Neutrinos May be Due to Faulty Cable

The sensational result that neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light may be undone by nothing more than a simple mechanical error.
Scientists from the OPERA collaboration at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy have “identified tw...
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Loose Cable Caused False Faster-Than-Light Particles [Physics]





We know that Einstein always has the last laugh, but this is hilarious: the faster-than-light particles that could have wrecked his relativity theory are no more. It was a mistake in the test results cause...
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