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Scientists Figured Out a Way to Cheat Newton’s Third Law

Ever since the late 17th century, it’s been understood that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. That’s Newton’s Third Law of Motion. But a group of German scientists recently came up with a trick that appears to break that law, one that lets light accelerate all by itself. And it could…

Physics & Chemistry Adam Clark Estes

The Physics of How a Water Jet Can Keep a Ball Floating in Mid-Air

If you’ve ever floated a ping-pong ball atop the warm blast from a hair dryer, you’ll appreciate this video that endeavors to explain the physics behind how the same phenomenon occurs with jets of water. Compared to a juggling busker on the street, keeping just a single ball suspended in the air isn’t that impressive…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski

IBM’s Watson Is Planning to Fix America’s Healthcare System

While Obama might be having a hell of a time trying to reform healthcare, we perhaps shouldn’t worry too much—because IBM’s supercomputer Watson is now being used to fix America’s shortage of doctors. Watson has had plenty of jobs along the way: as a pastry chef, on Wall Street, and even just answering phones. But…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Whales Don’t Spray Water Out of Their Blowholes

Contrary to what you may have seen in such movies as Pixar’s otherwise extremely entertaining Finding Nemo, whales don’t spray water out of their blowholes. Further, the whale’s trachea doesn’t connect to the esophagus of the whale; so when Dory and Marlin went down the whale’s throat, in real life, they’d have simply been eaten.…

Biology Emily Upton - TodayIFoundOut.com

Watch Felix Baumgartner’s Space Jump from Every Angle Imaginable

It’s been just over a year since the nail-biter of a day when Felix Baumgartner jumped out of a shimmering weather balloon 127,852 feet in the air and reached a top speed of Mach 1.25. And now you can watch it from his point of view—and several others. Fair warning: it’s still nerve-wracking. It feels…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

It’s Raining Diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter

We’re a little late to the party on this one, but it’s just too fascinating to pass up. A team of planetary scientists recently claimed that the mix of methane, carbon and lightning in Saturn’s atmosphere is causing diamonds to be forged in the planet’s atmosphere. Like, a lot of diamonds. “The bottom line is…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

The Rosetta Spacecraft Is Humanity’s First Asteroid Lander

While NASA’s asteroid-capturing mission remains grounded from a lack of Congressional funding, a similar and equally ambitious ESA program is nearing fruition. In the coming months, the Rosetta spacecraft and its integrated Philae probe will become the first manmade objects to not only orbit an asteroid but land on it as well. Here’s how they’ll…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

The Average Man, Rendered and Visualized

Say hello to Todd. Todd, on the far left, is literally Mr Average: the most typical of American men based on averages from CDC anthropometric data. How do you compare? Rendered by James Hamblin for The Atlantic, Todd is somewhere between 30 to 39, has a BMI of 29, is five-feet-nine-inches tall, and has 39-inch…

Health Jamie Condliffe

These Stars May Look Mellow But They’re Resisting A Huge Black Hole

Nothing is ever as tranquil as it seems. This image is pretty and has lots of fun, trippy colors. But all of that variation is being produced by gas, dust and other matter as whole galaxies fall into a supermassive black hole. Created from Hubble data, the image shows the cosmic tug-of-war going on in…

Space & Spaceflight Lily Hay Newman

Watch the SpaceX Grasshopper Reach A New Record-Setting Height

In the past few months SpaceX’s Grasshopper has done test runs that included jaunts to 250 and 325 meters above ground. The rocket has been regularly sticking its landings and has even done some side-to-side maneuvering. And now the Grasshopper has taken its biggest hop yet to 744 meters aka 2,441 feet aka almost half…

Space & Spaceflight Lily Hay Newman

How Life Would Look If the Moon Was as Close to Earth as the ISS

Even though it might not look like much when it’s so far away, the Moon is pretty huge. In fact, if it was a little closer—as close as the ISS for example—it would monopolize the entire sky. Yetipc1, apparently a serious astronomy nerd, took the liberty of figuring out what it would look like if…

Space & Spaceflight Eric Limer

Is This Mysterious Space-Splosion Creating Gravity in Real Life?

OK, by this point we all know Gravity was beautiful and terrifying and, mercifully, complete fiction. But scary clouds of space debris are real. There’s one floating up there right now—a possible missile explosion—and it’s a debris cloud of mystery. The mystery started about six hours ago, when Luca Parmitano, an astronaut currently on the…

Space & Spaceflight Eric Limer

The Size of Earthly Surfaces Directly Under Different Space Objects

If you’ve ever wondered how much of the Earths surface actually sits directly beneath the Sun at any given moment, then you probably also gave up on the math pretty quickly. Luckily, Randall Munroe didn’t. If you draw lines from the edge of an object in space straight to the center of Earth, there’s an…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

These Images Show the Brutal Scars on Mars’s Surface

These images show the incredibly striking, scarred surface of Mars. Formed by huge tectonic forces, its canyons are an enduring reminder of stress and strain the red planet has undergone. Hebes Chasma—shown in the image immediately above and the detail images that accompany this post—was formed by huge tectonic stresses, as were a number of…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Found the Remains of a Water-Covered Earth-Like Planet

A team of astrophysicists have made an exciting however complex discovery a mere 170 light years away. In their own words, it’s “the first evidence of a water-rich rocky planetary body” outside of our own solar system to have evidence of water. It’s the “rocky” bit that makes it Earth-like. Hey, that’s pretty exciting! An…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

Thanks to That Salmonella Outbreak, CDC Staff Gets to Go Back to Work

Well that was quick. Seemingly hours after officials issued a health warning about a multi-state salmonella outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) called nearly all of its food monitoring staff back in to work. “Earlier in the shutdown we had only one person on Pulsenet (the foodborne illness network),” Barbara Reynolds, the CDC’s public…

Health Adam Clark Estes

Could Humanity Possibly Survive the Sun’s Explosive Death?

Despite the Mayan Calendar’s and thePeople’s Temple’s best efforts, we’ve managed to avoid any sort of Apocalypse and/or End Times thus far. But don’t let your guard down just yet, because we know for a fact that, one day, that warm, life-giving center of the solar system will turn its back on us and blow…

Physics & Chemistry Ashley Feinberg

A Doctor’s-Office-in-a-Chair Measures All Your Vitals At Once

It’s not designed to replace your family doctor, but this sensor-laden chair concept from Sharp could definitely reduce the number of times you need to stop by their clinic every year. The chair looks like it could actually be capable of time travel, but its capabilities are limited to measuring your blood pressure, pulse, temperature,…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Five Things You Should Know About the Nobel Prize Winner’s Higgs Boson

Analysts said it would happen. Professor Stephen Hawking said it should happen. And now it has. Peter Higgs, the man who first predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, or ‘God particle’, has been given a Nobel Prize for his efforts along with Belgian physicist Francois Englert. It’s been a long time coming. For Peter…

Physics & Chemistry Andy Ridgway - Science Uncovered

There’s a Massive US Salmonella Outbreak Amid the FDA Shutdown

Be careful what you put in your mouth: a public health alert has been issued by the US Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) surrounding a massive salmonella outbreak. It comes on the back of the recent FDA closure because of the Government shutdown. The outbreak relates to chicken to produced at three Foster Farms…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Figured Out a Way to Cheat Newton’s Third Law

The Physics of How a Water Jet Can Keep a Ball Floating in Mid-Air

IBM’s Watson Is Planning to Fix America’s Healthcare System

Whales Don’t Spray Water Out of Their Blowholes

Watch Felix Baumgartner’s Space Jump from Every Angle Imaginable

It’s Raining Diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter

The Rosetta Spacecraft Is Humanity’s First Asteroid Lander

The Average Man, Rendered and Visualized

These Stars May Look Mellow But They’re Resisting A Huge Black Hole

Watch the SpaceX Grasshopper Reach A New Record-Setting Height

How Life Would Look If the Moon Was as Close to Earth as the ISS

Is This Mysterious Space-Splosion Creating Gravity in Real Life?

The Size of Earthly Surfaces Directly Under Different Space Objects

These Images Show the Brutal Scars on Mars’s Surface

Scientists Found the Remains of a Water-Covered Earth-Like Planet

Thanks to That Salmonella Outbreak, CDC Staff Gets to Go Back to Work

Could Humanity Possibly Survive the Sun’s Explosive Death?

A Doctor’s-Office-in-a-Chair Measures All Your Vitals At Once

Five Things You Should Know About the Nobel Prize Winner’s Higgs Boson

There’s a Massive US Salmonella Outbreak Amid the FDA Shutdown

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

Could There Be a ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sequel?

Meta Has More Smart Glasses Coming Whether You Want Them or Not

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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