Truth is almost always stranger than fiction, as demonstrated by a team of Australian physicists at ANU who recently conducted…
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A recent video captures the color changes that a titanium bar experiences during the process of anodization. Kottke writes: “Anodizing…
Physicists are baffled by an airplane’s unprecedented encounter with a massive dose of antimatter of unknown origin. Nature writes: “Although powerful…
As if electron microscopes weren’t already mindblowing enough — now scientists have made a massive breakthrough in “whispering gallery” research…
The Large Hadron Collider made physics history by proving the existence of the God particle, and if you think they’re done with…
Charlie Rose just profiled superstar astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson for 60 Minutes, giving us a glimpse into what life is…
Bin Liu of the University of California recently presented a fascinating prototype for an impact-absorbing origami “shield” at the American…