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How A Guy Who Failed Physics Is Reinventing Higher Education
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How A Guy Who Failed Physics Is Reinventing Higher Education

By Brooke Borel

Fall Into A Trance Watching This Pendulum Wave Of Bowling Balls
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Fall Into A Trance Watching This Pendulum Wave Of Bowling Balls

By Francie Diep

Click Your Way To Discovery In CERN’s ‘Particle Clicker’ Game
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Click Your Way To Discovery In CERN’s ‘Particle Clicker’ Game

By Kelsey D. Atherton

The Newest, Strictest Test Of A Quantum Computer Yet
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The Newest, Strictest Test Of A Quantum Computer Yet

By Francie Diep

How To Prove That Light Can Be Converted Into Matter
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How To Prove That Light Can Be Converted Into Matter

By Devon Maloney

Blog Post Questions Recent Big Bang Discovery
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Blog Post Questions Recent Big Bang Discovery

By Francie Diep

‘Indisputable’ Proof Of A New Four-Quark Particle
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‘Indisputable’ Proof Of A New Four-Quark Particle

By Francie Diep

‘Huge’ Physics Finding Supports Big Bang Theory
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‘Huge’ Physics Finding Supports Big Bang Theory

By Douglas Main

Scientists Make Largest Quark, Solving A 20-Year Mystery
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Scientists Make Largest Quark, Solving A 20-Year Mystery

By Douglas Main

Fermilab’s Neutrino Detector Sees Its First Particles
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Fermilab’s Neutrino Detector Sees Its First Particles

By Francie Diep

Video: The Physics Of Emperor Penguin Huddles
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Video: The Physics Of Emperor Penguin Huddles

By Francie Diep

Heating Water To 600 Degrees Celsius In One Trillionth Of A Second
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Heating Water To 600 Degrees Celsius In One Trillionth Of A Second

By Francie Diep

Blue Oil On Bowling Lanes Shows How You Roll
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Blue Oil On Bowling Lanes Shows How You Roll

By Colin Lecher

how to jump on a trampoline
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How To Win A Trampoline War, According To Science

By Shaunacy Ferro

Friction Physics Reveals Details Of How People Hauled 100-Plus-Ton Stones To China’s Forbidden City
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Friction Physics Reveals Details Of How People Hauled 100-Plus-Ton Stones To China’s Forbidden City

By Francie Diep

The Mathematics Of Throwing A Curveball
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The Mathematics Of Throwing A Curveball

By Colin Lecher

A Very Simple Explanation Of The Higgs Boson
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A Very Simple Explanation Of The Higgs Boson

By Shaunacy Ferro

The Dark Side Of The Nobel Prizes
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The Dark Side Of The Nobel Prizes

By Mark Jackson/ The Conversation

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Watch This Droplet ‘Walk’ On Liquid [Video]

By Shaunacy Ferro

FYI: How Forceful Is A Sneeze?
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FYI: How Forceful Is A Sneeze?

By Daniel Engber

Pitch Drop Experiment Scientist Dies Without Ever Seeing A Drop Fall
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Pitch Drop Experiment Scientist Dies Without Ever Seeing A Drop Fall

By Francie Diep

FYI: If I Fell Through Earth, What Would Happen In The Center?
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FYI: If I Fell Through Earth, What Would Happen In The Center?

By Susannah F. Locke

Herpes Virus Shoots DNA Into Human Cells With Crazy High Internal Pressure
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Herpes Virus Shoots DNA Into Human Cells With Crazy High Internal Pressure

By Shaunacy Ferro

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What Happens When You Fire An AK-47 Underwater [Video]

By Kelsey D. Atherton

New Theory: The Universe Isn’t Expanding, It’s Just Gaining Mass
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New Theory: The Universe Isn’t Expanding, It’s Just Gaining Mass

By Francie Diep

Shipping A 50-Foot Magnet Across The U.S., For Physics
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Shipping A 50-Foot Magnet Across The U.S., For Physics

By Rebecca Boyle

We’ve Finally Figured Out What Makes LED Bulbs So Inefficient
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We’ve Finally Figured Out What Makes LED Bulbs So Inefficient

By Shaunacy Ferro

How Physics Can Help Solve Crimes
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How Physics Can Help Solve Crimes

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Speed Of Light In Vacuum Is Not Actually Constant, Study Finds
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Speed Of Light In Vacuum Is Not Actually Constant, Study Finds

By Francie Diep

Physicists Create A Water Vortex That Ties Itself In Knots [Video]
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Physicists Create A Water Vortex That Ties Itself In Knots [Video]

By Shaunacy Ferro

Space Rocks 101: What You Need To Know About Russia’s Meteor
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Space Rocks 101: What You Need To Know About Russia’s Meteor

By Shaunacy Ferro

Why Mosh Pits Make For A Good Physics Lesson
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Why Mosh Pits Make For A Good Physics Lesson

By Elbert Chu

Physicists Create Crystals That Are Nearly Alive
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Physicists Create Crystals That Are Nearly Alive

By Shaunacy Ferro

FYI: What Gives Ravens Quarterback Joe Flacco His Mutant-Like Arm?
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FYI: What Gives Ravens Quarterback Joe Flacco His Mutant-Like Arm?

By Colin Lecher

The standard model of particle physics
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How Particle Physics Can Improve Your Netflix Recommendations

By Rebecca Boyle

Lifting James’ Giant Peach Would Have Required Way More Seagulls Than Roald Dahl Said
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Lifting James’ Giant Peach Would Have Required Way More Seagulls Than Roald Dahl Said

By Rebecca Boyle

Scientists Send A Cloud Of Atoms Plunging Below Absolute Zero
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Scientists Send A Cloud Of Atoms Plunging Below Absolute Zero

By Clay Dillow

5 Of Physics’s Greatest Sex Scandals
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5 Of Physics’s Greatest Sex Scandals

By Krislyn Placide

Which City Has The Most Nobel Prize Winners? [Infographic]
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Which City Has The Most Nobel Prize Winners? [Infographic]

By Colin Lecher

Researchers Achieve Quantum Teleportation Between Two Macroscopic Objects For The First Time
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Researchers Achieve Quantum Teleportation Between Two Macroscopic Objects For The First Time

By Clay Dillow

The First ‘Perfect’ Invisibility Cloak Completely Conceals Objects (From Microwaves)
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The First ‘Perfect’ Invisibility Cloak Completely Conceals Objects (From Microwaves)

By Clay Dillow

Experience Relativity Firsthand In MIT Video Game That Slows The Speed Of Light
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Experience Relativity Firsthand In MIT Video Game That Slows The Speed Of Light

By Clay Dillow

Large Hadron Collider Unleashes Rampaging Zombies
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Large Hadron Collider Unleashes Rampaging Zombies

By Rebecca Boyle

How Do We Know We’re Not Living Inside A Massive Computer Simulation?
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How Do We Know We’re Not Living Inside A Massive Computer Simulation?

By Clay Dillow

How The Physics Nobel Winners Imprison Subatomic Particles
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How The Physics Nobel Winners Imprison Subatomic Particles

By Rebecca Boyle

With Basic Physics, You Can Beat the House At Roulette
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With Basic Physics, You Can Beat the House At Roulette

By Rebecca Boyle

After The LHC: The Next Really Big Experiments In Particle Physics
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After The LHC: The Next Really Big Experiments In Particle Physics

By Clay Dillow

“Looper” And The Real Science Of Time Travel
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“Looper” And The Real Science Of Time Travel

By Dave Mosher

The Labs That Go Boom: How to Run a Nuclear Reactor
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The Labs That Go Boom: How to Run a Nuclear Reactor

By Brooke Borel

Strange, Unexplained Solar Influence Over Earth’s Radioactive Material Could Herald Solar Flares
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Strange, Unexplained Solar Influence Over Earth’s Radioactive Material Could Herald Solar Flares

By Rebecca Boyle

Smartphone Clocks Could Keep Precise Time By Syncing With Fluorescent Lights’ Flicker
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Smartphone Clocks Could Keep Precise Time By Syncing With Fluorescent Lights’ Flicker

By Clay Dillow

Physicists Propose Building a Crystal of Space-Time
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Physicists Propose Building a Crystal of Space-Time

By Rebecca Boyle

Physics Students Say A Gliding Batman Would Die Upon Landing
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Physics Students Say A Gliding Batman Would Die Upon Landing

By Colin Lecher

A Diamond Quantum Bit Holds Data for Nearly Two Seconds at Room Temperature
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A Diamond Quantum Bit Holds Data for Nearly Two Seconds at Room Temperature

By Clay Dillow

Hello, Higgs Boson: LHC’s New Particle Looks Like the Real Thing
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Hello, Higgs Boson: LHC’s New Particle Looks Like the Real Thing

By Rebecca Boyle

Tantalizing Signs of Higgs Boson Found By U.S. Tevatron Collider
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Tantalizing Signs of Higgs Boson Found By U.S. Tevatron Collider

By Rebecca Boyle

Chinese Physicists Teleport Photons Over 100 Kilometers
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Chinese Physicists Teleport Photons Over 100 Kilometers

By Dan Nosowitz

NIST’s Quantum Simulator Mimics Hundreds of Qubits Interacting
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NIST’s Quantum Simulator Mimics Hundreds of Qubits Interacting

By Clay Dillow

In New Quantum Experiment, Effect Happens Before Cause
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In New Quantum Experiment, Effect Happens Before Cause

By Paul Adams

For the First Time, Electrons are Observed Splitting into Smaller Quasi-Particles
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For the First Time, Electrons are Observed Splitting into Smaller Quasi-Particles

By Clay Dillow

Students Invent a Pothole Repair Patch Made from a Non-Newtonian Fluid
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Students Invent a Pothole Repair Patch Made from a Non-Newtonian Fluid

By Rebecca Boyle

The Fastest-Ever Random Number Generator Conjures Digits from Subatomic Noise in a Vacuum
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The Fastest-Ever Random Number Generator Conjures Digits from Subatomic Noise in a Vacuum

By Clay Dillow

How It Would Work: Creating a Quantum Computer
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How It Would Work: Creating a Quantum Computer

By Clay Dillow

While the LHC Hunts Higgs, the Jefferson Accelerator Looks to Illuminate Mysterious ‘Dark Photons’
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While the LHC Hunts Higgs, the Jefferson Accelerator Looks to Illuminate Mysterious ‘Dark Photons’

By Clay Dillow