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Researchers Just Solved One Of Quantum Computing’s Biggest Problems

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8 years ago

Researchers Just Solved One Of Quantum Computing’s Biggest Problems

Can You Safely Catch A Bullet Fired By A Gun?

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8 years ago

Can You Safely Catch A Bullet Fired By A Gun?

Jamie Condliffe

Science & Health

8 years ago

Five Scientific Steps To Pouring The Perfect Beer At Home

Jamie Condliffe

This Is The Most Complex Integrated Quantum Circuit Ever Made

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8 years ago

This Is The Most Complex Integrated Quantum Circuit Ever Made

What Happens When Water Freezes In A Box So Strong It Can’t Expand?

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8 years ago

What Happens When Water Freezes In A Box So Strong It Can’t Expand?

Karl Smallwood - TodayIFoundOut.com

These Pool Tricks Seem Like They’re Breaking All Of Earth’s Magnets

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8 years ago

These Pool Tricks Seem Like They’re Breaking All Of Earth’s Magnets

Casey Chan

Science & Health

8 years ago

Magnetic Levitation Looks Magical In Slow Motion

Science & Health

8 years ago

Why Is The Solar System Flat?

The Science Of Why Your Pasta Boils Over

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8 years ago

The Science Of Why Your Pasta Boils Over

Emily Upton - TodayIFoundOut.com

The Physics Behind Why Sausages Split Lengthwise

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8 years ago

The Physics Behind Why Sausages Split Lengthwise

Nick Berry - Data Genetics

Science & Health

8 years ago

Is Every Snowflake Actually Unique?

Robins Can Actually See Magnetic Fields (But Only In One Eye)

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8 years ago

Robins Can Actually See Magnetic Fields (But Only In One Eye)

Karl Smallwood - TodayIFoundOut.com

This Is A Picture Of The Sound A Helicopter Makes

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8 years ago

This Is A Picture Of The Sound A Helicopter Makes

Jamie Condliffe

Science & Health

8 years ago

Watch Water Dance In Slow Motion On GE’s Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Adam Clark Estes

Scientists May Have Finally Found A Practical Test For String Theory

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8 years ago

Scientists May Have Finally Found A Practical Test For String Theory

Jamie Condliffe

How Gravity Would Be Different If The World Were A Cube

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8 years ago

How Gravity Would Be Different If The World Were A Cube

Jesse Berezovsky

This Camera Stabiliser Seems To Defy The Laws Of Physics

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8 years ago

This Camera Stabiliser Seems To Defy The Laws Of Physics

Casey Chan

Science & Health

8 years ago

Why Is Time Slower In Space Rockets?

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8 years ago

What’s Wrong With Quantum Computing

Jamie Condliffe

Why Cold Weather Makes Water Pipes Burst

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8 years ago

Why Cold Weather Makes Water Pipes Burst

Nick Berry - DataGenetics

What Happens When A Boeing 777 Tries To Land In A Major Crosswind

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8 years ago

What Happens When A Boeing 777 Tries To Land In A Major Crosswind

Ashley Feinberg

These Are The First Ever Images Of A Heart Injected With Liquid Metal

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8 years ago

These Are The First Ever Images Of A Heart Injected With Liquid Metal

Ashley Feinberg

There’s A Naturally Occurring Nuclear Fission Reactor In West Africa

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8 years ago

There’s A Naturally Occurring Nuclear Fission Reactor In West Africa

Melissa - TodayIFoundOut.com

Watch This Chain Of Beads Dash Across The Room All On Its Own

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8 years ago

Watch This Chain Of Beads Dash Across The Room All On Its Own

This Stealth Camera Captures Images In Almost Complete Darkness

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8 years ago

This Stealth Camera Captures Images In Almost Complete Darkness

How Many D Batteries Does It Take To Cook A Turkey?

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8 years ago

How Many D Batteries Does It Take To Cook A Turkey?

Adam Clark Estes

Science Confirms That Old People Really Do Have A Smell

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8 years ago

Science Confirms That Old People Really Do Have A Smell

Deborah Honeycutt - TodayIFoundOut.com

Science & Health

8 years ago

Behold The Dazzling Magic Of Surface Tension

Adam Clark Estes

Move Over Graphene: The Wonder Conductor Of The Future May Be Stanene

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8 years ago

Move Over Graphene: The Wonder Conductor Of The Future May Be Stanene

9 years ago

Disney Has Totally Nailed Snow Physics

Logan Booker

This New Li-On Battery Packs More Power, And It’s Way Safer Too

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9 years ago

This New Li-On Battery Packs More Power, And It’s Way Safer Too

Why Nuclear Bombs Create Mushroom Clouds

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9 years ago

Why Nuclear Bombs Create Mushroom Clouds

Scott - TodayIFoundOut.com

Stephen Hawking Doesn’t Think The Higgs Boson Is Interesting Enough

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9 years ago

Stephen Hawking Doesn’t Think The Higgs Boson Is Interesting Enough

Jamie Condliffe

3D Gesture Recognition Might Actually Make Smartwatches Useful

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9 years ago

3D Gesture Recognition Might Actually Make Smartwatches Useful

The Moon May Have Been Made Of ‘Magma Mush’ For Millions Of Years

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9 years ago

The Moon May Have Been Made Of ‘Magma Mush’ For Millions Of Years

We’ve Finally Figured Out Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold

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9 years ago

We’ve Finally Figured Out Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold

Bank Note Ink Will Help Make Quantum Computers Cheaper

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9 years ago

Bank Note Ink Will Help Make Quantum Computers Cheaper

Science & Health

9 years ago

This Video Shows Just How Beautiful Mathematics Is

New Anti-Predator Material Looks Colder As It Gets Hotter

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9 years ago

New Anti-Predator Material Looks Colder As It Gets Hotter

Jamie Condliffe

Science & Health

9 years ago

Learn How To Time Travel In Just 3 Minutes

Robert Sorokanich

Why Can People Live In Hiroshima And Nagasaki Now But Not In Chernobyl?

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9 years ago

Why Can People Live In Hiroshima And Nagasaki Now But Not In Chernobyl?

Melissa - TodayIFoundOut.com

Did An Inspirational Apple Really Fall On Newton’s Head?

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9 years ago

Did An Inspirational Apple Really Fall On Newton’s Head?

Emily Upton - TodayIFoundOut.com

Science & Health

9 years ago

Watch These Water Drops Levitate And Form Spinning, Pulsating Stars

Jamie Condliffe

CyArk Wants To Digitally Preserve 500 Heritage Sites In Just Five Years

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9 years ago

CyArk Wants To Digitally Preserve 500 Heritage Sites In Just Five Years

Jamie Condliffe

Computing

9 years ago

Everything You Need To Know About The Grid, CERN’s Global Supercomputer

Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Figured Out A Way To Cheat Newton’s Third Law

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9 years ago

Scientists Figured Out A Way To Cheat Newton’s Third Law

Science & Health

9 years ago

The Physics Of How A Water Jet Can Keep A Ball Floating In Mid-Air

Andrew Liszewski

Five Things You Should Know About The Nobel Prize Winner’s Higgs Boson

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9 years ago

Five Things You Should Know About The Nobel Prize Winner’s Higgs Boson

Andy Ridgway - Science Uncovered

Science & Health

9 years ago

Could Humanity Possibly Survive The Sun’s Explosive Death?

Nuclear Fusion Has Broken Even For The First Time Ever

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9 years ago

Nuclear Fusion Has Broken Even For The First Time Ever

These Cubes With No Moving Parts Are Actually Self-Assembling Robots

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9 years ago

These Cubes With No Moving Parts Are Actually Self-Assembling Robots

Cars

9 years ago

How Do Petrol Pumps Know When To Stop?

Science & Health

9 years ago

Why Do We Live In Three Dimensions?

Jamie Condliffe

Landmark UN Report Blames Humans For Climate Change

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9 years ago

Landmark UN Report Blames Humans For Climate Change

Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Create New Form Of Matter, And It’s Like A Lightsabre

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9 years ago

Scientists Create New Form Of Matter, And It’s Like A Lightsabre

Adam Clark Estes

You Need To Hit Two Million Kilometres Per Hour To Exit The Milky Way

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9 years ago

You Need To Hit Two Million Kilometres Per Hour To Exit The Milky Way

Jamie Condliffe

Graphene Computer Chips Run On Light Instead Of Electricity

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9 years ago

Graphene Computer Chips Run On Light Instead Of Electricity

Adam Clark Estes

The World’s Thinnest Sheet Of Glass Is Just Two Atoms Thick

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9 years ago

The World’s Thinnest Sheet Of Glass Is Just Two Atoms Thick

Science & Health

9 years ago

Why Does Your Voice Sound Different When It’s Recorded?

Science & Health

9 years ago

Does Space Go On Forever?

5 Crazy New Man-Made Materials That Will Shape The Future

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9 years ago

5 Crazy New Man-Made Materials That Will Shape The Future

Parallel Worlds: How Human History Turns On The Tilt Of The Multiverse

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9 years ago

Parallel Worlds: How Human History Turns On The Tilt Of The Multiverse

Andrew Crumey - Aeon Magazine

Surprising No One, Water Is A Great Lubricant, Even For Tiny Machines

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9 years ago

Surprising No One, Water Is A Great Lubricant, Even For Tiny Machines

Lily Hay Newman

Quantum Cryptography Could Make Your Phone Uncrackable Someday

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9 years ago

Quantum Cryptography Could Make Your Phone Uncrackable Someday

Science & Health

9 years ago

Where Exactly Did The Big Bang Actually Happen?

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

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9 years ago

This Is The World’s Most Precise Clock

Jamie Condliffe

Super-Accurate Gravity Map By Australian Scientists Shows You Where You Can Weigh Less

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9 years ago

Super-Accurate Gravity Map By Australian Scientists Shows You Where You Can Weigh Less

Jamie Condliffe

What Happens When You Stick Your Head Into A Particle Accelerator

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9 years ago

What Happens When You Stick Your Head Into A Particle Accelerator

Daven Hiskey - TodayIFoundOut.com

Scientists Recreate St Elmo’s Fire In The Lab

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9 years ago

Scientists Recreate St Elmo’s Fire In The Lab

Jamie Condliffe

A House With A Roof That Retracts, Thanks To A Hand-Operated Winch

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9 years ago

A House With A Roof That Retracts, Thanks To A Hand-Operated Winch

Science & Health

9 years ago

This Animation Teaches You More About Physics Than High School Ever Did

Casey Chan

Science & Health

9 years ago

A Brief History Of Physics

Jamie Condliffe

New Carbon Supermaterial Is Stronger Than Graphene And Diamond

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9 years ago

New Carbon Supermaterial Is Stronger Than Graphene And Diamond

Jamie Condliffe

How The Speed Of Light Was First Measured

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9 years ago

How The Speed Of Light Was First Measured

Karl Smallwood - TodayIFoundOut.com

Mathematician Designs Time Cloak That Uses Just Light And Mirrors

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9 years ago

Mathematician Designs Time Cloak That Uses Just Light And Mirrors

Adam Clark Estes

How Insanely Fast The ISS Moves, Visualised

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9 years ago

How Insanely Fast The ISS Moves, Visualised

Jamie Condliffe

The Abandoned Nazi Train Station, Now An Underground Astroparticle Lab

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9 years ago

The Abandoned Nazi Train Station, Now An Underground Astroparticle Lab

Ashley Feinberg

The Weird New Solid That’s Actually A Liquid

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9 years ago

The Weird New Solid That’s Actually A Liquid

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Neon Bird Feathers Hold The Key To Colours That Never Fade

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9 years ago

Neon Bird Feathers Hold The Key To Colours That Never Fade

Science & Health

9 years ago

What Happens To Us As The Universe Expands?

Eric Limer

Monster Machines: Hunting Rare Subatomic Particles With This 15m Electromagnet

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9 years ago

Monster Machines: Hunting Rare Subatomic Particles With This 15m Electromagnet

Andrew Tarantola

How Scientists Stopped Light Dead For A Whole Minute

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9 years ago

How Scientists Stopped Light Dead For A Whole Minute

Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Discover New Force Stronger Than Gravity

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9 years ago

Scientists Discover New Force Stronger Than Gravity

Should You Actually Be Worried About Nuclear Radiation?

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9 years ago

Should You Actually Be Worried About Nuclear Radiation?

Tom Hartsfield - Real Clear Science

Science & Health

9 years ago

This Is How A Transistor Works

Hyper-Precise New Clock Could Redefine The Length Of A Second

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9 years ago

Hyper-Precise New Clock Could Redefine The Length Of A Second

Adam Clark Estes

Travelling At The Speed Of Light Could Make Your Bum Look Great

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9 years ago

Travelling At The Speed Of Light Could Make Your Bum Look Great

Gadgets

9 years ago

The Invisible Electronic Fields That Surround Your MacBook

Why Roller Coasters Make You Vomit And Scream

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9 years ago

Why Roller Coasters Make You Vomit And Scream

Scientists Build Mini Laser Gun That Generates Anti-Matter

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9 years ago

Scientists Build Mini Laser Gun That Generates Anti-Matter

9 GIFs That Make Perpetual Motion Machines A Reality

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9 years ago

9 GIFs That Make Perpetual Motion Machines A Reality

How Evolution Gave Humans The Ability To Throw A Fastball

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9 years ago

How Evolution Gave Humans The Ability To Throw A Fastball

The Crazy New Subatomic Particle That May Rewrite The Rules Of Matter

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9 years ago

The Crazy New Subatomic Particle That May Rewrite The Rules Of Matter

Science & Health

9 years ago

How The Hell Does A Quantum Computer Work?

The Impossible History Of Perpetual Motion

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9 years ago

The Impossible History Of Perpetual Motion

Ross Pomeroy - RealClearScience

Planet Earth Can’t Afford Its New Gigantic Particle Accelerator

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9 years ago

Planet Earth Can’t Afford Its New Gigantic Particle Accelerator

Adam Clark Estes

Photons Can Communicate From Beyond The Grave

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9 years ago

Photons Can Communicate From Beyond The Grave

Science & Health

9 years ago

Does Alien Life Really Exist?