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Physicists Use Ytterbium Ions to Make March Madness Picks
Even knowledgable fans aren't great at making predictions, so quantum physics may be the surest way to cash in on the madness
March 22, 2013 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Women Who Score Well on Both Math And Verbal Tests Still Don’t Choose Science Careers
This may be because women have some many career options these days, researchers write, or maybe it's just sexism
March 21, 2013 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Scientists Build a Phaser, a New Kind of Sound-Laser
A laser that shoots sound, a Star Trek fantasy that's nearly within reach
March 19, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
Are We Ready to Have Babies in Space?
As technology progresses, and people start to talk seriously about trips to Mars or other planets, the questions of love and sex in space become more pressing
March 14, 2013 |
By Rose Eveleth
Eight Months Later, Physicists Double Down on Claim of Higgs Particle Discovery
No longer Higgs-like, now just Higgs
March 14, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
What Mosh Pits Can Teach Us About Disaster Planning
Moshers might have more to offer society than you once thought. It turns out that mosh pits behave a lot like a container of gas, with each individual behaving like an atom
March 12, 2013 |
By Rose Eveleth
The Northern Lights—From Scientific Phenomenon to Artists’ Muse
The spectacular aurora borealis is inspiring artists to create light installations, musical compositions, food and fashion
March 12, 2013 |
By Megan Gambino
Could Spider Silk Stop a Moving Train?
Spiderman really could have stopped that train from falling, so long as his silk resembled that produced by the Darwin's bark spider
February 28, 2013 |
By Rachel Nuwer
An Asteroid Will Skim Right By the Earth on Friday Afternoon
The 147-foot-wide rock will pass a scant 17,200 miles from Earth's surface, under the orbits of some telecom satellites
February 12, 2013 |
By Joseph Stromberg
Quantum Physicists Show What Time Travel Could Look Like
Quantum physics professors at the University of Ulm in Germany, have created a mathematically-accurate visual approximation of the hypothetical Gödel model of the universe. That is, they show what it would look like if you could simultaneously see past, present, and future versions of physical objects. Sandrine Ceurstemont of New Scientist, who compiled the video [...]
February 01, 2013 |
By Lauren Kirchner
The Building Blocks of Life May Have Come From Outer Space
Did meteorites seed Earth the building blocks of life?
February 2013 |
By Ker Than
CSI: Tennessee—Enter the World of Nuclear Forensics
Scientists are busy tracking the sources of stolen uranium in the hopes of deterring crime—and prevent the weapons getting into the wrong hands
February 2013 |
By Joseph Stromberg
We’re One Step Closer to a Real Tractor Beam
In one of a long string of advances towards a tractor beam, researchers at St. Andrews have been able to move things with a beam of light
January 28, 2013 |
By Rose Eveleth
Star Trek Got Warp Speed All Wrong
Hold everything people. The blast of a star and light that happens in Star Trek when they jump to warp speed? Wrong! It wouldn't look like that at all, according to some physicists
January 17, 2013 |
By Rose Eveleth
Just Twenty-Nine Dominoes Could Knock Down the Empire State Building
With just 29 dominoes, you can take down the Empire State Building
January 17, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
To Understand the Largest Structure Ever Found, We Need to Rethink the Basic Principles of the Universe
These 73 quasars—massive, extremely remote celestial objects—stretch for about 4 billion light years
January 16, 2013 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Preparing for a Mission to Mars Is Dangerously Boring
One of the biggest challenges to a Mars mission is just how long it takes to get there
January 11, 2013 |
By Rose Eveleth
There Is a Sculpture on the Moon Commemorating Fallen Astronauts
The crew of Apollo 15 placed a small aluminum sculpture on the moon to memorialize those astronauts had died
January 07, 2013 |
By Rose Eveleth
Physicists Find That “Absolute Zero” May Not Be Quite So Absolute
Using lasers and magnets, a group of physicists pushed potassium atoms to a state colder than absolute zero
January 04, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
This School Is Getting Girls Into Physics
The gap between boys and girls in math and engineering seems to start early and continue through college. But one school in the UK is trying to buck that trend
December 31, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
