Large Hadron Collider Back in Action and Collidier Than Ever
They've finished scraping the god juice out of it and are turning it back on.
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They've finished scraping the god juice out of it and are turning it back on.
You can usually find 100 kcal multi-packs of crisps, sweets, chocolates, and all sorts of junk foods. Despite the very obvious negative of the excess packaging, what, if any, impact does such packaging have on people’s consumption?
Yep, you heard that one correctly.
Ice spikes may very well be the perfect untraceable weapon, but how do these jagged sticks of frosty death form?
You’d probably get upset if somebody ran smack into you on the street, or ploughed into your car. Whatever sort of fuss you’d raise pales miserably in comparred cosmic scream of supermassive black holes when their host galaxies collide.
Spider silk is often touted as a wonder material that’ll soon weave its way into everything from body armour to replacement hearts. But we can only squeeze so much of the stuff out of our eight-legged friends.
Disaster-plagued cities. Hellish landscapes. Post-apocalyptic society. It’s just your average day in California. With one special exception: A 9.6 earthquake has rippled up and down the state. That's the plot of San Andreas
This stunning ocean footage, shot off the coast of Puerto Rico, managed to capture some amazing deep sea creatures that we've never seen before. Read More >>
Now we know more than ever before about what lies beneath the mummies’ wrappings — and these long-dead people are telling us a lot about ancient lives and cultures.
Emily Singer explains that the way bdelloid rotifers manage their genes has scientists asking what the term “sex” really means.
If anything in nature could be creepier than cockroaches, it would be zombie cockroaches, so good thing those don’t exist, right? Right? Actually, they do. You can thank the dementor wasp for that.
Memory alloys that spring back into a pre-defined shape are nothing new, but regular bending means they fatigue and fail within a relatively short time-scale. Thankfully this one can last an incredibly long time.
Graphene, already a plenty weird wondermaterial, has an unexpected new property that could one day play a role in space exploration: When hit with light, it propels forward. Huh!
I know they’ve been ridiculed. I know some people think they’re ew. Thing is, I don’t believe in judging things on blind emotion. I believe in data.
New analysis reveals that they’re not a result of gas produced bacteria in the cheese, or cheeky nibbling by mice—but something else entirely.
There’s a new branch on the human family tree.
