There might not be any air in space, but NASA scientist and astronaut Don Pettit has come up with a way of showing how waves act in microgravity. He's currently aboard the International Space Station, Continue reading…
Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have developed a rather remarkable device known as ZeroN — a "tangible interface element" that can levitate and move within a three-dimensional space. Created by Continue reading…
A team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology has successfully stored two frames of a simple "movie" in a cloud of rubidium gas for the first time. Atomic storage is one vital aspect Continue reading…
There's been a bit of a conspiracy surrounding Einstein's first paper on relativity, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" from 1905 that suggests that the physicist's wife at the time, Mileva Continue reading…
Physicist Dmitri Krioukov probably isn't the first person to talk his way out of a traffic ticket, but the University of California researcher got a $400 charge dropped by writing a paper asserting Continue reading…
The plot of Fez begins when a two-dimensional character living in a two-dimensional world suddenly realizes that just beyond his perception lies a third dimension, filled with unexplored wonders and Continue reading…
We've had some time to play with Angry Birds Space, but even our hands-on didn't go into how exactly the physics of space differ from the birds' natural terrestrial environment. Rhett Allain, Wired's Continue reading…
The full collection of Albert Einstein's papers, including political correspondence, love letters, and even fan mail, is being posted online as part of a massive project to digitize the physicist's Continue reading…
A lot of scientists have been working hard to debunk faster-than-light neutrinos, but it looks like we might not need them after all — the group behind the initial experiment has found two problems Continue reading…
An international team of scientists has demonstrated a new method of magnetic recording that could allow hard drives to transfer data hundreds of times faster than is possible with current technology Continue reading…
