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How Do Bikes Stay Up?
New ReviewLearn the about the physics that allows bikes to stay upright and in motion, even without a rider.
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How Do We Know The Universe Is Accelerating?
New ReviewThe universe is expanding – this we know from looking at red shifts of distant galaxies – but the acceleration of the universe's expansion is harder to measure. It requires measuring the change of recession velocity over time, and it's...
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Is JWST Living Up to the Hype?
New ReviewThe James Webb Space Telescope is the most ambitious space observatory ever launched, and nobody hyped it more than us. So is it putting in work? Oh, boy, yes. Yes it is.
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How To Clear Icy Roads, With Science
New ReviewIcy roads are a huge hazard, and typical methods of de-icing them can be pretty toxic to wildlife. Which is why researchers have been so fixated on finding better alternatives, from brine to pig pee.
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What Color Was the Big Bang?
New ReviewIf you could survive a trip to the very first moments of reality as we know it, what color would you see?
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The Moon is Rusting. It's the Earth's Fault.
New ReviewThe Moon is typically 380,000-ish kilometers from the Earth, so it doesn't seem like they have that much of a direct influence on one another. However, the presence of hematite on the lunar surface suggests our planet is causing the Moon...
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This Light is a Different Kind of Invisible
New ReviewDark matter's most famous trait is its inability to interact with light, the particle version of which we call "photons". But in their attempts to figure out exactly what dark matter is, some scientists have proposed "dark photons".
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The Biggest and Brightest Space News of 2023
New ReviewIt's that time of year where we reflect on the events of 2023 - and if you're like us, you're thinking about all the coolest space-y finds of the year. So here's the brightest, faintest, and most magnetic stuff we saw in space this year!
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The Ocean's Most Important Crystal
New ReviewWhen we think of the ocean and what's in it, you probably think of stuff like fish, or salt, or seaweed. But there's a crystal that is so vital to marine life that they take dissolved materials in that salty water and build it...
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Are Sharks Really Older Than the North Star?
New ReviewIf you've spent enough time on the internet, you may have stumbled upon the fact that sharks are older than Polaris, aka the North Star. But are they really? It turns out the truth is a little more complicated.
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Does Antimatter Fall?
New ReviewIn September 2023, a group of scientists from CERN published the first results from the ALPHA-g experiment, which seeks to figure out how antimatter responds to the force of gravity. Does it fall like regular matter? Does it not interact...
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The World’s Strongest Acid Might be Gentle Enough to Eat
New ReviewHearing the word "superacid" may evoke memories of that scene from Breaking Bad, but perhaps counterintuitively, the strongest acid on Earth wouldn't be able to destroy your bathroom.
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This Element Doesn't Fit the Periodic Table
New ReviewOne of the most famous elements in the periodic table doesn't really belong anywhere chemists would like to put it.
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How Do We Know How Old the Earth Is?
New ReviewIn the wake of World War 2, Clair Patterson embarked on a scientific quest to find out how old the Earth really is. His hard work paid off, but it also revealed a modern danger.
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This Crystal Is ELECTRIC
New ReviewThere's a few minerals that exhibit something called piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity, which mean that either heat or pressure can turn them electric. Here's a demo from the SciShow Rocks Box where you can see this for yourself - all...
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We Finally Made Synthetic Spider Silk
New ReviewThe ability to produce synthetic spider silk would give us bulletproof vests better than Kevlar, biocompatible sutures and wound dressings, and even space elevators. The problem is being able to make it in large amounts. One group may...
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The Universe Runs on Vibes
New ReviewAs much as we like to talk about vibes, actual vibrations underlie pretty much everything about the universe. From the patterns of galaxies created by the Big Bang to the existence of subatomic particles, here's how the universe runs on...
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Mercury Shouldn't Be Liquid. But It Is.
New ReviewMercury, a.k.a. quicksilver, is famous for being a liquid at room temperature...and also below room temperature. But you can't use a high school chem class to explain why. Instead, we need a little help from Einstein.
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The Earthquake That Lasted Two Centuries
New ReviewFrom an Australian fire that's been continually burning for millennia, to earthquakes that shake the ground for centuries, here are four natural disasters that lasted way longer than you might have expected.
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The Zombie Planet at the Center of the Earth
New ReviewFor years, geologists have been searching for an explanation for two strange blobs of Earth's mantle that are denser than the rest. It turns out, they may not be original parts of Earth at all.
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Why Can't I Use My Laptop Outside?
New ReviewWhy can't laptop screens be viewed outside like e-readers can? It turns out, they use very different technology. But engineers are working on closing the gap.
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How We Make Glass Nearly Unbreakable … With Science
New ReviewWe know that glass is fragile - that's like, it's main thing. But research is working on improving how we make glass to make it unbreakable, or at least as close as we can get. Here's the latest on how to make truly shatterproof glass!
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The Hallucinogenic Fungi That May Treat Alzheimer’s
New ReviewIf you've ever heard of ergot fungi, you've likely heard of the nasty side effects of eating them, including convulsions and hallucinations. But like many a toxic substance, scientists have figured out ways to use ergot for good....