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It's Scientifically Possible to Boil Water Until It Freezes Solid
If you feel like having one of your fundamental beliefs thrown out the window, try this on for size - under the right conditions, you can boil water until it freezes solid.
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Physicists take first step toward cell-sized robots (w/video)
With postdoctoral researcher Marc Miskin at the helm, the team has made a robot exoskeleton that can rapidly change its shape upon sensing chemical or thermal changes in its environment. And, they claim, these microscale machines – equipped with electronic, photonic and chemical payloads – could become a powerful platform for robotics at the size scale of biological microorganisms.
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Quanta Magazine: Neutrinos Suggest Solution to Mystery of Universe’s Existence
Updated results from a Japanese neutrino experiment continue to reveal an inconsistency in the way that matter and antimatter behave.
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‘Crazy’ Supernova Looks Like a New Kind of Star Death
Astronomers are mystified by a strange star explosion in a distant galaxy that might be a relic from an earlier cosmological era.
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This fungus has over 23,000 sexes and no qualms about it
Sex is extra strange if you're a shroom.
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[PDF Warning] The Dawn of the Post-Naturalness Era
In an imaginary conversation with Guido Altarelli, I express my views on the status of particle physics beyond the standard Model and its future prospects.
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Researchers Mix Metal-Organic Frameworks with 3D Printing Plastic to Create New Sensors
If you have been following 3D printing even for just a short amount of time, then you are probably aware that while one surprising innovation after another seems to pop up from every corner of the world, the technology has also been connected with so many others such as robotics, virtual reality, bi...
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Paper-Based Supercapacitor Uses Metal Nanoparticles to Boost Energy Density
A paper-based flexible supercapacitor that could be used to help power wearable devices.
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The Alien Telescope --"Europa's 'Chaos' Might Reveal 1st Evidence of Life"
Arthur C. Clarke warned us to attempt no landings on Europa in 2010: Odyssey Two, the 1982 the science fiction novel , when the Earth mission returns to the Jupiter to explore beneath the ice of Europa, nine years after...
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A new view on gravity and the dark side of the cosmos
The 2017/18 season of the Perimeter Institute Public Lecture series kicks off October 4 with cosmologist Erik Verlinde explaining why gravity may be profoundly different than what was proposed by Newton and Einstein.
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A Rare Element From The Edge of The Periodic Table Is Breaking Quantum Mechanics
There's a lot we don't know about the actinides. On the periodic table, this series of heavy, radioactive elements hangs at the bottom, and includes a host of mysterious substances that don't naturally occur on Earth.
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How to Predict a Hostile Alien Invasion
It's hardly the most pressing concern for Earth, but there might be a way to forewarn ourselves
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Bioreactors on a chip renew promises for algal biofuels
Researchers report exciting new technology that may revolutionize the search for the perfect algal strain: algal droplet bioreactors on a chip the size of a quarter.
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Google quantum computer test shows breakthrough is within reach
The idea that quantum computers can do things that regular ones cannot isn’t proven. But Google thinks it knows a problem only a quantum computer can solve
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Isaac Arthur - Self Replicating Machines
A look at the concept of Self-Replicating Machines, Universal Assemblers, von Neumann Probes, Grey Goo, and Berserkers.
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Nerve implant 'restores consciousness' to man in vegetative state
Stimulation of the vagus nerve allows patient who has been in a vegetative state for 15 years to track objects with his eyes and respond to simple requests.
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Gravity may be created by strange flashes in the quantum realm
A model of how wave forms of quantum systems collapse reveals a way they could create gravitational fields, and perhaps even reconcile two pillars of physics
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Lucid dreaming (what would godhood be like?)
An interesting look at lucid dreaming, and its drawbacks.
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Can you see time?
Imagine if you could see time laid out in front of you, or surrounding your body. And you could physically point to specific dates in space.
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Non-exotic matter wormholes (physics heavy paper at link)
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