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Geophysicists Are Turning Peanut Butter Into Diamond Gemstones

By Sarah Fecht

/ Nov 10, 2014

Shipping Containers Could Relay Quantum Information Across Oceans

By Mary Beth Griggs

/ Oct 28, 2014

Chemists Find A New Chemical Bond

By Francie Diep

/ Oct 27, 2014

Physics Explains Ingrown Toenails

By Sarah Fecht

/ Oct 21, 2014

This App Turns Your Phone Into A Cosmic Ray Detector

By Francie Diep

/ Oct 13, 2014

Why A Blue LED Is Worth A Nobel Prize

By Francie Diep

/ Oct 7, 2014

Space Combat Won’t Look At All Like ‘Star Wars’

By Kelsey D. Atherton

/ Sep 30, 2014

Spooky Action In Threes: Physicists Entangle Three Particles Of Light

By Francie Diep

/ Sep 17, 2014

Light Forms Crystal-Like Structure On Computer Chip

By Rafi Letzter

/ Sep 17, 2014

How A Guy Who Failed Physics Is Reinventing Higher Education

By Brooke Borel

/ Sep 11, 2014

Quantum Mechanics Saves Grandfathers From Time Travelers

By Kelsey D. Atherton

/ Sep 11, 2014

Fall Into A Trance Watching This Pendulum Wave Of Bowling Balls

By Francie Diep

/ Sep 8, 2014

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

By Kelsey D. Atherton

/ Aug 11, 2014

The Newest, Strictest Test Of A Quantum Computer Yet

By Francie Diep

/ Jun 19, 2014

How To Build A Better World Cup Ball

By David Cassilo

/ Jun 2, 2014

How To Prove That Light Can Be Converted Into Matter

By Devon Maloney

/ May 28, 2014

Blog Post Questions Recent Big Bang Discovery

By Francie Diep

/ May 14, 2014

‘Indisputable’ Proof Of A New Four-Quark Particle

By Francie Diep

/ Apr 10, 2014

Super-Intense Laser Stretches Farther Than Ever

By Francie Diep

/ Apr 3, 2014

‘Huge’ Physics Finding Supports Big Bang Theory

By Douglas Main

/ Mar 17, 2014

Scientists Make Largest Quark, Solving A 20-Year Mystery

By Douglas Main

/ Feb 25, 2014

Fermilab’s Neutrino Detector Sees Its First Particles

By Francie Diep

/ Feb 11, 2014

Quantum Microscope Uses Spooky Entangled Photons To See Better

By Francie Diep

/ Feb 10, 2014

Video: Rush Of Gas From A Champagne Bottle

By Francie Diep

/ Dec 31, 2013

Video: The Physics Of Emperor Penguin Huddles

By Francie Diep

/ Dec 18, 2013

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

By Francie Diep

/ Dec 17, 2013

Blue Oil On Bowling Lanes Shows How You Roll

By Colin Lecher

/ Nov 22, 2013

How To Win A Trampoline War, According To Science

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Nov 14, 2013

Stephen Hawking On The Future Of CERN

By Francie Diep

/ Nov 13, 2013

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

By Francie Diep

/ Nov 5, 2013

The Mathematics Of Throwing A Curveball

By Colin Lecher

/ Oct 28, 2013

A Very Simple Explanation Of The Higgs Boson

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Oct 8, 2013

The Dark Side Of The Nobel Prizes

By Mark Jackson/ The Conversation

/ Oct 7, 2013

Watch This Droplet ‘Walk’ On Liquid [Video]

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Oct 3, 2013

FYI: How Forceful Is A Sneeze?

By Daniel Engber

/ Sep 17, 2013

Pitch Drop Experiment Scientist Dies Without Ever Seeing A Drop Fall

By Francie Diep

/ Aug 26, 2013

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

By Susannah F. Locke

/ Aug 14, 2013

U.S. Forest Service Solves Mystery Of Exploding Baseball Bats

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Aug 2, 2013

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

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Jul 31, 2013

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

By Kelsey D. Atherton

/ Jul 29, 2013

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

By Francie Diep

/ Jul 24, 2013

Gravity-Defying Particles Travel Up A Waterfall

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Jul 3, 2013

This Accelerator Can Supply A Whole City With Medical Isotopes Overnight

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Jun 11, 2013

Inconsistency In The Big Bang Theory Resolved

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Jun 6, 2013

Island Formations Might Make Tsunamis Worse

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Jun 5, 2013

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

By Rebecca Boyle

/ May 15, 2013

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

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Apr 24, 2013

How Physics Can Help Solve Crimes

By Kelsey D. Atherton

/ Apr 20, 2013

Happy Birthday To Brilliant Mathematician Leonhard Euler

By Colin Lecher

/ Apr 16, 2013

Laser Camera Makes 3-D Photos Of Objects A Kilometer Away

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Apr 9, 2013

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

By Francie Diep

/ Mar 27, 2013

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

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Mar 5, 2013

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

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Feb 16, 2013

Why Mosh Pits Make For A Good Physics Lesson

By Elbert Chu

/ Feb 15, 2013

Creating Solid Nitrogen In The Kitchen [Video]

By Paul Adams

/ Feb 7, 2013

Physicists Create Crystals That Are Nearly Alive

By Shaunacy Ferro

/ Feb 2, 2013

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

By Colin Lecher

/ Feb 1, 2013

Running Low On Cash, U.S. Physicists Recommend Shutting Off Nation’s Last Big Collider

By Rebecca Boyle

/ Jan 29, 2013

How Particle Physics Can Improve Your Netflix Recommendations

By Rebecca Boyle

/ Jan 16, 2013

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

By Rebecca Boyle

/ Jan 9, 2013

Scientists Send A Cloud Of Atoms Plunging Below Absolute Zero

By Clay Dillow

/ Jan 4, 2013

5 Of Physics’s Greatest Sex Scandals

By Krislyn Placide

/ Nov 28, 2012

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

By Colin Lecher

/ Nov 28, 2012

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

By Clay Dillow

/ Nov 19, 2012

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