A team from Princeton has created a plastic sheet which floats if electric currents are sent through it. It can also propel forward.
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When having fun is a serious job, nothing beats the Ig Nobel! A spoof on the Nobel Prizes, these always elicit great laughs. This year is no exception.
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CERN celebrates its 57th birthday today. Wishing the premier research institute a very happy birthday. The past days have been glorious, the future will be magnificent. Thank you, CERN, and best wishes.
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Monkeys recreate Shakespeare, or are expected to do so! Dawkins claims that his weasels can do an even better job. It’s all probability! Makes no sense? Read this story written by an ape to make some sense.
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Once, the world’s most powerful accelerator, Tevatron is now overshadowed by the super-powerful LHC. However, it has been the mainstay for the physics community for 25 years. An emotional tribute.
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Five of the many dead sea scrolls have been digitized and put online, thanks to Google. Now you can read the most significant find of the 20th century sitting at home.
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An increase in the Sunspot activity has triggered a massive Solar Flare. This has interfered with communications and is also the cause for brilliant auroras.
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Fermilab’s own experiment MINOS had shown the same effect as OPERA shows i.e. they had detected faster-than-light neutrinos. The data was however discarded. Now they’ll take another look at it, to see if they can verify OPERA’s claim.
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There was an explosion in Beunos Aires, but the cause is unknown. Locals report a ‘ball of fire from the sky’. Was this a meteor strike? We don’t know.
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With all the buzz about the faster-than-light neutrinos detection news from CERN, we take a closer look at the facts. What is really going on? Are the CERN results trustworthy? And what about physics, if this turns out to be true?
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There is an Android app which lets you track the giant falling satellite. For the ultra-paranoid, there is also insurance against falling debris!
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CERN claims to have detected particles faster than the speed of light, Neutrinos have been detected breaching the ultimate speed barrier. Is this really true? The implications for physics might be huge.
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The chances of you being hit by the falling NASA Satellite are really slim. So don’t worry about that bus-sized spacecraft. If you’re lucky enough, enjoy the light show instead.
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A new theory explains the collapse of the towers along with the seen explosions that have formed the basis of conspiracy theories. The new simpler explanation punches a gaping hole in these hypotheses.
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