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Israel’s National Missile Shield Could Shoot Satellites Out of Orbit

Israel doesn’t get on too well with its Arab neighbors, and the threat of annihilation by ballistic missile is always present. To defend itself against this potential threat, Israel has built an Iron Dome-like defense system that covers the entire nation. But if this system can exo-atmospherically neutralize incoming ICBM’s, what’s to keep it from…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

The Universe Can Now Be Measured to 1% Accuracy

The Universe is so big that it can be difficult to accurately measure the huge distances between things in it. But no longer, because now a team of researchers working on the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Surveycan measure distances between galaxies with1 percent accuracy. The new gold standard of measurement is a big jump from previous…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

We Just Extended the International Space Station’s Mission Until 2024

The White House has just announced that the United States has extended its lease on the International Space Station through the 2024 fiscal year. This is great news for both NASA and science in general. The $100 billion International Space Station tops NASA’s list of most mission critical projects and is expected to act as…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

This Is a Picture of the Sound a Helicopter Makes

This might look like the cut-stick project of a small child, but in fact this image visualizes the noise that a helicopter makes as it tears through the air. Really. Yes, that sounds a little crazy, but it’s made possible by the fact that as those rotors punch through the atmosphere, they set up a…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

ISS Astronauts Are Testing Water That Acts Like Fire

Water’s normally an excellent remedy for fires. But aboard the International Space Station, astronauts are investigating a novel form of water that actually starts fires. It’s called “supercritical water,” and it could revolutionize terrestrial trash disposal. Here’s how it works. When you compress a sample of water to 217 times its ambient atmospheric pressure and…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

Science Finds the Universe’s Best French Fries Would Come From Jupiter

Just because we can’t fry food in the vacuum of space doesn’t mean that the entire universe has to be devoid of its greasy wonder. In fact, turns out us Earthlings live in an environment damned to produce subpar french fries without even realizing it. According to a new study, if you’re really jonesing for…

Space & Spaceflight Ashley Feinberg

Watch Water Dance In Slow Motion On GE’s Superhydrophobic Surfaces

We already knew that hydrophobic surfaces are extremely fun—but they’re even better in super slow motion. The Slow Mo guys recently paid GE a visit and shot some footage of their latest projects in their trademark super slow motion—including a hydrophobic coating GE is developing to keep wind turbines free of ice. You’ll have a…

Physics & Chemistry Adam Clark Estes

Robins Can Actually See Magnetic Fields (But Only in One Eye)

Despite its unassuming looks and gentle temperament, the humble red breasted robin (Erithacus rubecula) boasts a superhero-like ability. They can see magnetic fields, giving them an almost perfect sense of direction. Just to be clear, we don’t mean that a robin can sense the Earth’s magnetic field or something like that as many other birds…

Physics & Chemistry Karl Smallwood - TodayIFoundOut.com

Is Every Snowflake Actually Unique?

You’ve been told that “no two snowflakes are alike” more times than you can count. But is that actually the case? And if so—why? Fortunately,Joe Hanson of It’s Okay to Be Smarthas done us the favor of breaking down the science of snowflakes, how they become so intricate, and why, even though some may appear…

Physics & Chemistry Ashley Feinberg

Scientists May Have Finally Found a Practical Test for String Theory

String theory a beautiful, elegant piece of science which claims to unify all the forces in the Universe by representing tiny point-like particles as one-dimensional vibrating strings. It’s as clever as it is wacky but is—conveniently—untestable. Until, perhaps, now. The problem is that string theory, sometimes referred to as the “theory of everything,” uses such…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Which Superfoods Aren’t Actually Super At All?

It’s way more fun to finish off a big ol’ bar of dark choco when you can convince yourself it’s good for you. Because c’mon, science says so… in all those random studies you’ve seen floating around the internet… right? Well, surprise surprise, it turns out there are a bunch of false facts out there…

Health Jordan Kushins

Magical New Gel Expands In Your Stomach to Make You Feel Full Longer

Hungry? You probably are, because we eat more soft foods than ever before, meaning we feel satiated less often and want to eat more. Then we get fat. No big deal. Science has a new solution in the form of a gel, derived from ingredients used in molecular gastronomy by a team of engineers from…

Health Adam Clark Estes

300 Years of Imaginary Space Flight, From Geese to Anti-Gravity Ships

Long before space flight was possible, the human imagination was already charting a course through the stars. Our ideas have been varied and fanciful. The Library of Congressrecently collected some of these imaginary space vehicles, which go all the way back to the 1630s. Space Birds (1638) Galileo’s observations of the moon opened a whole…

Space & Spaceflight Sarah Zhang

How Saving an Endangered Bird Almost Doomed It Again

Have you ever heard of a copulation hat? Well, perhaps we should talk about human-assisted bird reproduction for a minute. When the pesticide DDT threatened peregrine falcon populations in the 1970s, conservationists donned leather caps on which male birds in a breeding program would land to, well, copulate. The ejaculate was collected for artificial insemination,…

Biology Sarah Zhang

Garmin’s Vívofit Fitness Band Will Remind You To Get Off the Couch

With its new Vívofit fitness tracker, Garmin’s entering a market that’s getting more and more crowded every day. But while other fitness bands allow motivated athletic types to set daily goals and strive to improve themselves, the Vívofit seems to cater to those of us who need a lot more encouragement to get off the…

Health Andrew Liszewski

A Bracelet to Keep You Safe From the Sun and Tell You What SPF to Use

Netatmo is slowly creating a reputation for itself of combining smart sensors with neat design, having recently teamed up with Philippe Starck to produce a sleek wireless thermostat. Now, it’s joined forces with Louis Vuitton to produce a bracelet that’ll keep you safe in the sun. The June bracelet—designed by Louis Vuitton and Harry Winston…

Health Jamie Condliffe

You’ll Need a Doctor’s Prescription to Download This App

BlueStar is a smartphone app that helps diabetics track their glucose readings, analyzing patients’ blood glucose readings and coaching them on medical and behavioral changes they can make to minimize the disease’s impact. But good luck finding a download link on BlueStar’s site—it’s the world’s first prescription-only smartphone app. That may sound strange, but it…

Health Bob Sorokanich

Tobacco-Eating Caterpillar Has Toxic Nicotine-Filled Breath

Look, we’re not saying smoking is good, but tobacco can confer the superpower of breath so toxic it keeps away spiders. Take a quick breath and come meet the tobacco hornworm, a caterpillar that has managed to hijack a plant’s defense system for itself. Nicotine is a poison—in fact, poisonous enough to use as a…

Biology Sarah Zhang

How a Poorly Camouflaged Insect Reshapes Its Ecosystem

For an insect trying to avoid becoming dinner, the consequences of bad camouflage are clear. What’s less obvious is how the effects then ripple like an aftershock through an entire ecosystem, subtly changing which shrubs are eaten and which critters thrive. For example, the consequences of a single species of badly camouflaged walking stick insect…

Biology Sarah Zhang

The Lego Mars Curiosity Rover is now available for sale

The day has finally come, space nerds. For just $30, you can have your very own Mars Curiosity Rover Lego kit. It comes with six-wheel suspension for rumbling over Martian soil, a model robotic arm for picking up Martian rocks, and pretty much as much awesome as you can fit in a box. The design…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

Israel’s National Missile Shield Could Shoot Satellites Out of Orbit

The Universe Can Now Be Measured to 1% Accuracy

We Just Extended the International Space Station’s Mission Until 2024

This Is a Picture of the Sound a Helicopter Makes

ISS Astronauts Are Testing Water That Acts Like Fire

Science Finds the Universe’s Best French Fries Would Come From Jupiter

Watch Water Dance In Slow Motion On GE’s Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Robins Can Actually See Magnetic Fields (But Only in One Eye)

Is Every Snowflake Actually Unique?

Scientists May Have Finally Found a Practical Test for String Theory

Which Superfoods Aren’t Actually Super At All?

Magical New Gel Expands In Your Stomach to Make You Feel Full Longer

300 Years of Imaginary Space Flight, From Geese to Anti-Gravity Ships

How Saving an Endangered Bird Almost Doomed It Again

Garmin’s Vívofit Fitness Band Will Remind You To Get Off the Couch

A Bracelet to Keep You Safe From the Sun and Tell You What SPF to Use

You’ll Need a Doctor’s Prescription to Download This App

Tobacco-Eating Caterpillar Has Toxic Nicotine-Filled Breath

How a Poorly Camouflaged Insect Reshapes Its Ecosystem

The Lego Mars Curiosity Rover is now available for sale

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