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Grab your marshmallows, folks. Scientists have finally figured out the perfect way of building a fire, one that creates as much heat as possible. But it turns out their work may have been in vain.
Countries are scrambling to get to Mars in a good ol’ fashioned space race. But focus instead may be shifting to the Red Planet’s two moons, with Japan's space company planning to probe them.
If a solar storm makes it to Earth, it can disrupt a variety of modern technologies and wreak havoc. To combat potential economic losses, industries have been seeking a solution that gives them at least 24 hours of warning. Now there might be one.
There are some other fascinating things going on inside of that do it all wonder device.
At 42 years of age, Nic Fleming discovered that he has never really seen in three dimensions.
Apropos Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner etc.
These enormous devices you can see in this fisheye photo are the main parts of remote manipulator arms, which handle highly radioactive materials used to produce isotopes for medical purposes. Just look at the worker below, you can see how massive those arms really are. Read more >>
Over the weekend, the groundbreaking LightSail satellite unfurled its gigantic solar sail to help propel it through space. Now, the first images to be beamed back from the satellite prove that it’s really up and running. Read more >>
The miracle of childbirth meets the miracle of science.
It’s even possible that this area of research could one day make our brains programmable.
The spawn of frogs is so impressive and so sudden and so perfect that it’s easy to forget how complicated it is for Mother Nature to do her thing.
This photo of Laser Doppler velocimetry and particle image velocimetry was taken at the MAX Fluid Dynamics Facility at Argonne National Laboratory, outside of Chicago. When you're a scientist, you get to play with this sort of stuff all day. Read More >>
Children smudging their hands onto every available surface is normally gross and annoying. Unless, that is, the available surface in question is a sterile plate, which you then incubate in a petri dish. Read more >>
Fascinating space-findings tell of supernovae that wander alone in intergalactic emptiness.
For the last few weeks, an experimental satellite has been orbiting Earth, unable to make ground contact thanks to a software glitch. But just yesterday the spacecraft’s handlers successfully deployed the little craft’s gigantic solar-power sail. Read more >>
After two years of upgrades, the world’s largest particle accelerator is back and business. And it’s already bashing subatomic particles together at higher energies than ever before.
