Physicists shooting lasers underground were able to make an object nearly completely still.
Over the Christmas season of 2019, four physicists hovered over two minuscule gold orbs, each about the size of a…
Experiments on the International Space Station suggest spiders can weave normal-looking webs in space—they just need…
You’d better protect your livestock, because the chupacabra is coming.
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We can’t go to theme parks right now. That means no funnel cakes, no turkey legs, no churros, and definitely no…
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning sci-fi thriller from 2013, has a distinct, powerful ending. And if the…
Physicists have created atomic clocks so precise that they can measure deformations in spacetime itself, according…
Gravity might feel strong if you drop a bowling ball on your feet, but is in fact the weakest force. Compare it to…
You’re probably sitting still, right? Wrong, absolutely wrong. Not only are you on a spinning orb, but you’re also…
You’re looking at the center of our galactic home, the Milky Way, as imaged by 64 radio telescopes in the South…
The arrival of pumpkin spice jokes is often seen as the first sign of fall, but a trampoline full of gravity-defying…
Bad news: Humans will probably never explore the area around a black hole, at least while you’re alive. That’s…
Black holes are the strong, silent type—an age-old enigma. Hubble estimates that there are roughly 100 million black…
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Going to space is definitely one of the coolest things a human could ever do but damn if it doesn’t do a doozy to…
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New research shows that astronauts who return from extended missions in space experience a significant weakening of…
Sometimes failure isn’t always a bad thing. This 19-foot tall domino tower was only ten layers away from officially…
Scientists at MIT have designed an ingenious new concept for a battery that operates on the same fundamental…
Yes, we can. We can totally create the artificial gravity seen in movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Elysium, it’ll…
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Forgive me, but I think it’s plausible that these two guys are actually the first mutants in the world, because the…
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