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  Sound in space: how waves behave in almost zero gravity

  By Jamie Keene on May 14, 2012 08:31 am + 19 comments

  There might not be any air in space, but NASA scientist and astronaut Don Pettit has come up with a Continue reading…

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  ZeroN magnetic levitation system can play back movements in space

  By Amar Toor on May 13, 2012 11:41 pm + 9 comments

  Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have developed a rather remarkable device known as ZeroN — a Continue reading…

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  Physicists successfully store two-frame 'movie' in atomic cloud

  By Adi Robertson on May 9, 2012 10:45 am + 12 comments

  A team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology has successfully stored two frames of Continue reading…

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  Was Einstein's first wife a co-author of paper on relativity?

  By Dante D'Orazio on April 18, 2012 01:02 pm + 23 comments

  There's been a bit of a conspiracy surrounding Einstein's first paper on relativity, "On the Continue reading…

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  Physicist disproves $400 traffic ticket with mathematical proofs

  By Adi Robertson on April 16, 2012 04:59 pm + 43 comments

  Physicist Dmitri Krioukov probably isn't the first person to talk his way out of a traffic ticket, Continue reading…

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  'Flatland' redux: watch Carl Sagan explain the science of 'Fez'

  By Joshua Kopstein on April 16, 2012 01:07 pm + 19 comments

  The plot of Fez begins when a two-dimensional character living in a two-dimensional world suddenly Continue reading…

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  Analyzing the physics of 'Angry Birds Space'

  By Adi Robertson on March 31, 2012 03:32 pm + 52 comments

  We've had some time to play with Angry Birds Space, but even our hands-on didn't go into how exactly Continue reading…

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  Complete Albert Einstein archives will be posted online

  By Adi Robertson on March 20, 2012 11:48 am + 7 comments

  The full collection of Albert Einstein's papers, including political correspondence, love letters, Continue reading…

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  Faster-than-light neutrinos may not be so fast after all

  By Jeff Blagdon on February 23, 2012 07:36 am + 18 comments

  A lot of scientists have been working hard to debunk faster-than-light neutrinos, but it looks like Continue reading…

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  Physicists demonstrate heat-based magnetic recording, could make hard drive data transfer hundreds of times faster

  By T.C. Sottek on February 7, 2012 02:32 pm + 29 comments

  An international team of scientists has demonstrated a new method of magnetic recording that could Continue reading…