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15 of the World’s Smartest Men in Their Natural Habitat

Beyond the rock stars like Neil DeGrasse Tyson and multi-billion dollar, cutting-edge facilities like CERN, a lot of physics (especially the theoretical sort) is still done the same way it was at the turn of the last century—by hand, on blackboards. Our friends at Oobject have assembled a gallery of history’s brightest minds leveraging old-school…

Physics & Chemistry David Galbraith - Oobject.com

A Robot Walks Exactly Like a Human For the First Time

How do babies learn to walk? And how to victims of spinal cord injuries regain the ability to do so? We might soon have a bit more insight into these phenomena, because researchers at the University of Arizona have created the first pair of legs that can walk in in a biologically accurate way. So…

Health Leslie Horn

Scientists Observe the Mysterious Hidden Structure of the Universe for the First Time Ever

In 1933, Fritz Zwicky—a Swiss astronomer working at CalTech—had an amazing revelation. He realized that the amount of matter that we can see through our telescopes doesn’t match the behavior of the Universe. There had to be something else that we couldn’t see. Something that accounts for an astonishing 83 percent of all existing matter…

Physics & Chemistry Jesus Diaz

The Smartphone That Could Save Your Life

Like a hospital room in your pocket, the LifeWatch V is an Android-based smartphone that incorporates a series of sensors letting you perform various medical tests in between checking Facebook and your email. It’s the perfect all-in-one device if you’re managing a medical condition, or just a hypochondriac. By holding the device in a certain…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Could Ovary Transplants Defy the Female Body Clock?

Women may be able to have babies later in life thanks to ovary transplants. A handful of women worldwide have undergone the experimental procedure and had babies after menopause. Did science just reset how we think about the female body clock? The idea is that women could have ovary tissue removed and frozen while they’re…

Health Mario Aguilar

A Really Simple Explanation of What This Higgs Boson Thing Is

So while you were out drinking beer and shooting guns at hamburgers yesterday, science found “the God particle.” But, uh, if you didn’t already know what that was, you were probably too drunk or are too hungover to read anything too in-depth about the new boson. No problem. Here’s part one of the MinutePhysics rundown,…

Physics & Chemistry Kyle Wagner

Do You Live Near an Infectious Human-Animal Disease Hotspot?

Most emerging human diseases come from animals. This map, created by the International Livestock Research Institute, shows the geographical locations of events where a disease has crossed over from animals to humans. Do you live near a hotspot? The entire study, which is published by the ILRI and its partners, found that just 13 zoonoses—the…

Health Jamie Condliffe

How the Higgs Discovery Lost Stephen Hawking $100

The discovery of the Higgs boson is kind of a big deal. Stephen Hawking certainly thinks so: he says it should net Peter Higgs, the scientist after which the particle is named, a Nobel prize. But it’s not all good news, because the result has lost him $100. Hawking, you see, had a long-standing wager…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

This Is the Shadow of a Single Atom

This isn’t a wallpaper design from the seventies, or a close-up picture of the sun. Though it might look a little garish in orange, what you’re actually looking at is the first ever recorded image of an atom’s shadow. Captured at Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland, the image was obtained using a custom-made ion trap,…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Physicists Have Found the Higgs Boson

At a meeting held at CERN this morning, scientists presented the latest results from the search for the long-sought Higgs particle. After 30 years of research and $9 billion of investment, they’ve changed the face of physics forever: they’ve found the Higgs boson. Fabiola Gianotti, from the ATLAS experiment, explains: “We observe in our data…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Scientist Finds Hidden Portals in Earth’s Magnetic Field

According to NASA, Jack Scudder—a researcher at the University of Iowa—has found “hidden portals on Earth’s magnetic field [that] open and close dozens of times each day.” Some of them are open for long periods of time. Scudder says that these portals “create an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun’s atmosphere…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Scientist Creates Pizza Healthy Enough to Eat 3 Times a Day, Every Day

Pizza is so good that most of us would be happy to eat it breakfast, lunch and dinner, if it weren’t for the fact that it was more than a little unhealthy. But now a scientist has created what he claims is the first nutritionally balanced pizza—and it’s OK to eat it three times a…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Dog Bacteria Reduces Risk of Asthma in Humans, Says Science

New research suggests that exposure to certain microbes during infancy—particularly, to those from a particular strain of bacteria found in dogs—can alter the intestinal flora of a baby’s developing GI tract such that asthmatic symptoms of a common virus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), are undetectable. In the study, mice were fed dust from homes with…

Health Molly Oswaks

This Photo Will Make You Brace For Impact

I love this image of a Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft just one second from landing on the very hard soil of the tundra near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. A perfect peaceful still moment—the calm before the rocking rumpus. The Soyuz TMA-03M brought Expedition 31’s Commander Oleg Kononenko, and Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Did Scientists Finally Discover the Higgs Boson? (a.k.a. The God Particle)

We’ve heard this clamoring before, but after years of experimenting and hypothesizing, the UK Telegraph says that CERN—keepers of the Large Hadron Collider—will hold a press conference on July 4 to confirm the existence of the Higgs boson particle, commonly referred to as the God Particle. It could be the biggest announcement/discovery in the history…

Physics & Chemistry Adrian Covert

How to Host a Dinner Party In Space

Like any other person, Don Pettit tweets, uploads YouTube videos, and maintains a blog. But unlike the rest of us, Don is doing it from the International Space Station. Blogging for Smithsonian’s Air and Space magazine, Pettit tells us how to host dinner guests in Space. It does not matter that you’ve seen the same…

Space & Spaceflight Don Pettit - Smithsonian Air & Space

Nicotine Vaccine Takes All the Fun Out of Smoking

Sometimes you want to smoke when you drink. Somewhere down the road, that turns into always smoking when you drink. Eventually that turns into just smoking. Cigarettes can be a tough habit to kick. But smokers might soon have some help. Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York have cooked up a possible…

Health Leslie Horn

Orion Capsule—Say Hello to the Future of Manned Space Flight

NASA didn’t completely dump the idea of manned extra-terrestrial flight. It just needed some space. Before the agency resumes its manned missions sometime in 2021, NASA will need somewhere to put the astronauts. A new generation of reusable spacecraft, capable of zipping beyond the current limits. Something like the Orion Capsule. Officially dubbed the Orion…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

Wow Man, It’s a Double Rainbow From Space!

Behold a double rainbow from space! Well, technically, it’s called glory, but it just looks like a double rainbow from the top. The optical phenomenon was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite, orbiting over Baja California. The image—which has been enhanced to highlight the colors of the rainbow—is a very…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Scientists See Star Blasting a Planet for the First Time Ever

Imagine you’re outside, walking happily on a beautiful sunny day. Suddenly, the light gets intense. You look up, and see a bright flash filling everything. Seconds later, a powerful wind starts pushing the clouds out of view at hypersonic speed. Buildings, trees, and people fly away, disintegrating into a billion pieces. Everything around you disappears…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

15 of the World’s Smartest Men in Their Natural Habitat

A Robot Walks Exactly Like a Human For the First Time

Scientists Observe the Mysterious Hidden Structure of the Universe for the First Time Ever

The Smartphone That Could Save Your Life

Could Ovary Transplants Defy the Female Body Clock?

A Really Simple Explanation of What This Higgs Boson Thing Is

Do You Live Near an Infectious Human-Animal Disease Hotspot?

How the Higgs Discovery Lost Stephen Hawking $100

This Is the Shadow of a Single Atom

Physicists Have Found the Higgs Boson

Scientist Finds Hidden Portals in Earth’s Magnetic Field

Scientist Creates Pizza Healthy Enough to Eat 3 Times a Day, Every Day

Dog Bacteria Reduces Risk of Asthma in Humans, Says Science

This Photo Will Make You Brace For Impact

Did Scientists Finally Discover the Higgs Boson? (a.k.a. The God Particle)

How to Host a Dinner Party In Space

Nicotine Vaccine Takes All the Fun Out of Smoking

Orion Capsule—Say Hello to the Future of Manned Space Flight

Wow Man, It’s a Double Rainbow From Space!

Scientists See Star Blasting a Planet for the First Time Ever

INIU Portable Power Bank Is Small in Size and Smaller in Price for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale (45W, 10,000mAh)

Humans Were Already Dog People 16,000 Years Ago, DNA Suggests

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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

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