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NASA Funds Interstellar Probe and Space Habitats Made From Fungi

The latest round of NASA funding to boost the development of advanced concepts includes a space-based neutrino detector, an interstellar probe powered by solar sails, and a radio telescope built inside a crater on the far side of the Moon. NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program is one of my favorite things in the world,…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Physicists Laser-Cool Antimatter to Near Absolute Zero

For a little more than a week in July 2018, a team of physicists at CERN tried a new technique to slow down antimatter particles zipping around at breakneck speeds. Those 10 days of observation were the culmination of 10 years of development in an international collaboration called ALPHA, which oversaw the design and construction…

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz

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Researchers Put Cloth Face Masks Under a Microscope. The Images Are Out of This World

At first glance, the images don’t seem like a cloth face mask at all.

Health Jody Serrano

This Electric Duster Will Motivate You to Clean Your Disgusting PC

You may be asking: Tom, why are you reviewing an electronic dust blower? Well, there are multiple reasons why I decided to pick up an XPOWER A-2 Airrow Pro. They’re pretty simple: I’ve come to truly hate ordering compressed air cans, especially when I forget to do so until dust becomes a problem, and I’ve…

Reviews Tom McKay

A Prime Suspect for Dark Matter Might Be Escaping From Neutron Stars

After axions were first theorized by physicists in the suburbs of Chicago 45 years ago, they quickly became a robust candidate for explaining dark matter. All this time, though, the ultra-small particles have remained hypothetical. Now, a team of astrophysicists have proposed that axions may be responsible for an excess of X-ray emissions seen coming…

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz

Intergalactic Pulses Solve Mystery of Universe’s Missing Matter

Scientists have spent three decades trying to locate half of all the “normal” matter that’s supposed to exist in the universe. A new paper is claiming to have finally found this missing stuff, in a discovery made possible by measuring incoming fast radio bursts. “We know from measurements of the Big Bang how much matter…

Physics & Chemistry George Dvorsky

The Andrew Cuomo Nipple Mystery, One of the Toughest Jobs on Earth and Humanity’s Origin Story: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

As I write this, I realize that most of you are probably staying at home, like me. First of all, hang in here. This is a long and difficult fight, but I have no doubt we will get through it. Today I must confess that I had lots of help from a bag of little…

Tech News Jody Serrano

The Surprising Way Black Holes Are Shaping the Darkest Corners of the Universe

The most powerful supercomputer simulation of the Universe is providing important insights into how matter is distributed across large scales. Surprisingly, a significant portion of matter resides outside of galaxies and in the cosmic voids that permeate the cosmos. Our universe is filled with all sorts of stuff, not all of it visible to the…

Physics & Chemistry George Dvorsky

What Happens When Your Dad Is Killed While Staying In an Airbnb

With over one million unregulated listings globally, critics of Airbnb have long said it’s only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt at one of the startup’s rentals. The most nightmarish scenario possible happened to a writer who is now coming forward: On Thanksgiving Day 2013, his father died from injuries sustained at…

Tech News Alissa Walker

This Particle Is Matter and Antimatter at the Same Time

You might think that matter and antimatter aren’t the best of friends, cancelling each other out when they come into contact—but you’d be wrong. In fact, researchers have now discovered a particle that’s made up of both. Researchers, led by Ali Yazdani of Princeton University, have now imaged what they call a Majorana particle. They…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Physicists Have Found A Particle That’s Also Its Own Antiparticle

Back in 1937, an Italian physicist predicted the existence of a single, stable particle that could be both matter and antimatter. Nearly 80 years later, a Princeton University research team has actually found it. Ettore Majorana proposed these exotic particles back in the 1930s. Named after him, they’re a unique exception to the standard relationship…

io9 George Dvorsky

Physicists Design A Collider That Turns Light Into Matter

Scientists have worked out an easy way of turning light into matter, a process thought to be impossible when first proposed 80 years ago. The proposed experiment would recreate events that occurred in the first 100 seconds of the Big Bang. In 1934, scientists Gregory Breit and John Wheeler suggested light can be converted into…

io9 Stuart Gary — ABC Science

Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Turn Light into Matter

Back in 1934, a team of physicists came up with an idea for how one might create matter from light. Put simply, just slam two photons into each other to get an electron and a positron, a.k.a. matter. And now, some 80 years later, a team of physicists have a plan to carry out the…

Physics & Chemistry Adam Clark Estes

How Many Things Are There?

There aren’t enough humans on Earth to fill the Grand Canyon, and in a lifetime you don’t produce enough saliva to even fill a swimming pool. That suggests that most things around us are countable or measurable: so how many things are there? That question is posed and—kinda—answered in this video by Vsauce. First, though,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The LHC Has Found a New Particle Unlike Any Other Form of Matter

Not content with perhaps the biggest scientific discovery of the decade, scientists at the Large Hadron Collide continue to search for new particles—and now they’ve found one that seems to be an entirely new form of matter. A series of experiments at the LHC have confirmed that a new particle called Z(4430)—catchy!— actually exists, and…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Created a New Form of Matter and It’s Like a Lightsaber

The latest science news out of Harvard and MIT sounds like a joke, but it’s not. A team of physicists were fooling around with photons when they managed to get the particles to clump together to form a molecule, one that’s unlike any other matter. And it behaves, they say, just like a lightsaber. That’s…

Physics & Chemistry Adam Clark Estes

There Are Way More Than Three States of Matter

Myth: There are only three states of matter. I remember growing up and learning all about solids, liquids and gases. My science class in elementary school never talked about other states or phases of matter. As I aged and advanced in my education, I began learning about the other states. I naively assumed the new…

Tech News Scott - TodayIFoundOut.com

The Weird New Solid That’s Actually a Liquid

Usually, if you cool any substance down enough it will turn into a solid—the most stable state of matter that exists, according to traditional physics. But that could all be about to change, because researchers have discovered a weird new liquid state that’s more stable than a solid crystal. A team of scientists from La…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

If You Love Science, You Should Read This Magazine

It started with a Kickstarter campaign. A couple of veteran science/technology journalists, Jim Giles and Bobbie Johnson, wanted a place where people could do investigative, long-form sci/tech writing. But most general interest magazines had cut down their feature sections, while science magazines didn’t want to touch on the social and cultural implications of the work…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Most powerful laser ever created can heat matter to over 3.6 million degrees

This newly created X-ray laser is just unimaginably powerful. It’s a billion times brighter than any previous X-ray source, and it can probe hot dense matter at nearly four million degrees. This laser could unlock the secrets of the Sun. Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory created the laser, which…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

NASA Funds Interstellar Probe and Space Habitats Made From Fungi

Physicists Laser-Cool Antimatter to Near Absolute Zero

Researchers Put Cloth Face Masks Under a Microscope. The Images Are Out of This World

This Electric Duster Will Motivate You to Clean Your Disgusting PC

A Prime Suspect for Dark Matter Might Be Escaping From Neutron Stars

Intergalactic Pulses Solve Mystery of Universe’s Missing Matter

The Andrew Cuomo Nipple Mystery, One of the Toughest Jobs on Earth and Humanity’s Origin Story: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

The Surprising Way Black Holes Are Shaping the Darkest Corners of the Universe

What Happens When Your Dad Is Killed While Staying In an Airbnb

This Particle Is Matter and Antimatter at the Same Time

Physicists Have Found A Particle That’s Also Its Own Antiparticle

Physicists Design A Collider That Turns Light Into Matter

Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Turn Light into Matter

How Many Things Are There?

The LHC Has Found a New Particle Unlike Any Other Form of Matter

Scientists Created a New Form of Matter and It’s Like a Lightsaber

There Are Way More Than Three States of Matter

The Weird New Solid That’s Actually a Liquid

If You Love Science, You Should Read This Magazine

Most powerful laser ever created can heat matter to over 3.6 million degrees

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