Scientists Weighed the Earth Using Ghostly Particles From Space
Scientists have to use some roundabout methods to weigh the Earth and measure what’s inside it—typically, they’ve used…
New Particle Could Explain 'Unusual' Antarctic Weather Balloon Detection
An enormous weather balloon in Antarctica spotted what looked like a high-energy particle from outer space striking the…
Ghost Particles Detected on Far Side of Earth Bolsters Crucial Physics Theory
If we’re ever going to truly understand how our Universe works, we’ll need to take lots of different measurements, but…
The Hunt for Exotic Fourth Neutrino Comes Up Empty
It’s been a rough few weeks of null results for physicists. First, a promising underground experiment failed to find…
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars Is a Criminally Underrated B-Movie
John Carpenter has films that are considered classics: Halloween, The Thing, They Live, Big Trouble in Little China. But…
How the hell can an ice cube turn into an ice sphere using brute force?
In Japan they love to make perfect ice for perfect drinks. For that they use these metal machines to turn huge ice…
The Antarctic Neutrino Camera Is About to Get Much, Much Bigger
The University of Wisconsin's IceCube neutrino detection system has been quietly operating amid Antarctica's barren…
This Subterranean Telescope May Have Just Seen Humanity's First Cosmic Neutrino
Catching a glimpse of even regular neutrinos—low-energy particles generated in the atmosphere—is difficult enough, but…
We officially have no idea what causes ultra-powerful cosmic rays
Cosmic rays generate the most energetic particles in the universe, utterly dwarfing anything we can generate in…
Underwater neutrino detector will be the second largest structure ever built
Plans are afoot to build a gigantic, state-of-the-art neutrino detector beneath the Mediterranean Sea. This…
Design Nerd Ice Cube Tours an Eames House
I will bet you several internet points that you didn't know Ice Cube was an architecture student before he started…
The Best Science of the Year
2010 was a great year for Science. NASA's space plane (and the Dolly lineage) were resurrected while a secret laboratory…
This $271 Million Telescope Is Buried Under the South Pole
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, built over a decade at a cost of $271 million, is buried under the South Pole... and…
Quicksnap Ice Tray Releases One Cube at a Time
Sometimes you don't need to fill your 5-gallon Mega Xtreme Chill Polar Icecap Gulp with 238 ice cubs to get through the…