Forget What Your Teacher Said: Mass and Weight are the Same
Professor Mike Merrifield from the University of Nottingham, along with Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, explains the equivalence principle.
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Professor Mike Merrifield from the University of Nottingham, along with Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, explains the equivalence principle.
More and more people are turning towards 'smart' drugs like modafinil to help them study and work. How effective are these substances, though?
So don't take a microwave apart. Don't. Take. A microwave. Apart. Don't do it. Don't!
If humanity hopes to realise its dreams of exploring the stars, we're going to need to find ways to recreate life on Earth aboard a spaceship.
Chameleon ice cream anybody? Nom nom nom.
This Mobius Chair by Takeshi Miyakawa will make you rethink everything you know about sitting.
Warning: Do not watch this if you just ate, or were about to.
Scientists are baffled by the discovery of yet another huge hole in the ground discovered in Siberia.
Nope, this isn't how NASA gets ready to roast a chicken. In fact, this image shows its engineers testing the sunshield for the NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The size of a tennis court, it folds up like an umbrella, thus has to be tested extensively to make sure the five layers of thin membrane can unfurl reliably in space. [NASA]
New engineering means that pure lithium batteries are now a possibility, and they could double the life of your phone.
Researchers find a way to double smartphone battery life without blowing up a charging device.
Because who doesn't love watching drops of water going absolutely mental?
We don't need to tell you how important this is.
It's hoped that the research will help medical researchers catch killer diseases far earlier than is currently possible.
It's called crAssphage, and it's about six times more abundant than all other known bacterial viruses put together. How did we miss it?
Despite over 2000 years of thought, theories, calculations and proofs, π's precise value remains elusive.
