Missing Links: the Christmas Edition
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View ArticleLHC Reports Failure To Create Black Holes, a Setback For String Theory
Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider report that after a series of tests, they have not seen any mini black holes, to the chagrin of string theorists and the relief of disaster theorists....
View ArticleEuropean Physicists Will Race Neutrinos Again, Trying to Reproduce...
The physicists who claimed to see neutrinos moving faster than light are moving quickly to replicate their experiment, hoping to substantiate their results before submitting…
View ArticleNow, A Second Italian Study Rejects Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Claim
Another new twist in the science of scofflaw neutrinos: A second Italian physics group now says they are not moving faster than light after all. So the foundations of modern…
View ArticlePopSci Recommends: What I Learned About Einstein In 4.5 Hours Of Opera
,"migrated":true}]]I went into the production of Philip Glass's "Einstein on the Beach" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Friday, curious to see if this famous 1976 work would tell me anything about...
View ArticleExperience Relativity Firsthand In MIT Video Game That Slows The Speed Of Light
Many have wondered (and theorized) what it would be like to travel at the speed of light, but over at MIT's Game Lab developers are envisioning what it would be like if light…
View ArticleThe World's Most Precise Clocks: 100 Times More Precise Than Cesium Atomic...
,"migrated":true}]]At the foot of the mountains abutting Boulder, Colorado, in the labs of the National Institute of Science and Technology, there sits the most precise clock in the world.It's so...
View ArticleBig Pic: Simulated Black Hole Collision Shreds The Milky Way [ANIMATED]
Black holes aren't just ultra-massive collapsed stars that trap light with the sheer force of their gravitational waves. They're also very difficult objects to model--especially when they interact with...
View ArticleIs 'Interstellar' An Antidote To Humanity's Space Apathy?
,"migrated":true}]]A few years ago, I caught a glimpse of one of the biggest obstacles to space exploration. In a movie theater line, I overheard two people discussing the concept of building a human...
View ArticleA Star Just Got Swallowed By A Warp In Space-Time
A star has slipped out of view thanks to the space-time warp it creates as it orbits.The disappearing star is part of a binary star system called J1906. It's a pulsar, which…
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General Relativity: 100 Years Old And Still Full Of Surprises
Library of Congress—Oren Jack Turner/Getty ImagesAlbert EinsteinIn 1947, at age 67, Einstein persevered in developing a single unified theory that would combine electromagnetism and gravity — a quest...
View ArticleThe First-Ever Breakthrough Prize Junior Winner Made This Cool Science Video
Video of Breakthrough Junior Challenge: Some Cool Ways of Looking at the Special Theory of RelativityWhen high school student Ryan Chester heard that Silicon Valley’s prestigious Breakthrough Prize...
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100 Years of General Relativity: Why Einstein Still Stands
U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)/Brain News ServiceAlbert Einstein as seen in a photograph from the U.S. Library of CongressAlbert Einstein is pictured in this photo from the Library of Congress dated...
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What Are Gravitational Waves And Why Do They Matter?
NASA/C. HenzeSimulation of Gravitational WavesNASA researchers simulated the gravitational waves that would be produced when two black holes merged.Physicists have been buzzing (or rather, tweeting)...
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What Happens When You Travel At The Speed Of Light?
Space Prepare for some timey-wimey...stuff A new video from Thought Cafe and Popular Science explores what happens when you travel at the speed of light.
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Experience Relativity Firsthand In MIT Video Game That Slows The Speed Of Light
Gadgets When light slows to the speed of a stroll, things get very, very strange. Many have wondered (and theorized) what it would be like to travel at the speed of light, but over at MIT's Game Lab...
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The World's Most Precise Clocks: 100 Times More Precise Than Cesium Atomic...
Science And they're about 10 billion times more precise than your quartz wristwatch. At the foot of the mountains abutting Boulder, Colorado, in the labs of the National Institute of Science and...
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Big Pic: Simulated Black Hole Collision Shreds The Milky Way [ANIMATED]
Space Luckily for us, nothing like this is actually happening nearby. Black holes aren't just ultra-massive collapsed stars that trap light with the sheer force of their gravitational waves. They're...
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Is 'Interstellar' An Antidote To Humanity's Space Apathy?
Entertainment It may be set in the distant future, but the movie highlights the issues that stymie space travel today. A few years ago, I caught a glimpse of one of the biggest obstacles to space...
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A Star Just Got Swallowed By A Warp In Space-Time
Space Om nom nom A star has slipped out of view thanks to the space-time warp it creates as it orbits. The disappearing star is part of a binary star system called J1906. It's a pulsar,…
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