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Big Quakes Can Trigger Other Shakes Thousands of Miles Away
According to new research, when a big one strikes, more than aftershocks can follow
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Learn Physics From Nobel Prizewinner Richard Feynman for Free
The physicist’s legendary lectures are now available online
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Here is a Map of Earth’s Antineutrinos
Antineutrinos are the antimatter siblings of the elusive particles called neutrinos and show up where radioactive materials decay
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The Theory of Relativity, Then and Now
Albert Einstein’s breakthrough from a century ago was out of this world. Now it seems surprisingly down-to-earth
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Physicists Built a Wormhole for Magnets
The metal sphere lets one magnetic field pass through another undetected, which could lead to improvements in medical imaging
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How Physics Drove the Design of the Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan
The gun-like design of the Little Boy bomb was effectively the last of its kind
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The Physics of a UFC Fighter so Fast, She Might Just Be Bionic
Two words: kinetic energy
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Curly Hair Science Is Revealing How Different Locks React to Heat
A mechanical engineer tackles the understudied problem of how to style curls without frying hair
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Mystery Solved: Why Puddles Don’t Go On Forever
The picture of proper puddle behavior had a few missing pieces
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Living Cells Armed With Tiny Lasers May Help Fight Disease
The biological light sources may one day help researchers see deeper into the body’s microscopic workings
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1,500-Year-Old Text Has Been Digitally Resurrected From a Hebrew Scroll
Special software helped reveal the words on a burned scroll found inside a holy ark near the Dead Sea
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Can Sound Explain a 350-Year-Old Clock Mystery?
Lab experiments suggest that a strange synchronization of pendulum clocks observed in the 1600s can be chalked up to acoustic energy
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What Is a Pentaquark and Why Are Physicists so Excited About It?
For fifty years scientists have thought they existed, and now they finally have proof
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“Combing” Through Light May Give Us Faster, More Powerful Internet
A lab experiment used a device called a frequency comb to send fiber optic data a record-breaking distance with no signal loss
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Hovering Hawkmoths Slow Down Their Brains to See in the Dark
The insects’ night vision appears to be finely tuned to the movement of their flower food sources
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Scientists Flew a Jet Plane Into a Thunderstorm to Study Antimatter
They got a little too close and saw something unexpected
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Watch These Ants Hurl Themselves Out of Death Traps With Their Mouths
At least one trap-jaw ant species has coopted its exceptionally strong mandibles to escape its nemesis, the ferocious antlion
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Water Drops Leap Off Gecko Skin Thanks to Tiny Spines
Specialized hydrophobic structures on gecko skin encourage dewdrops to be swept away by the wind or to collide and shoot off one another like pool balls
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