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Hollywood has taken a few liberties on the ice—and the judges are not impressed.
Hollywood has taken a few liberties on the ice—and the judges are not impressed.
According to a physicist, a glaciologist, and kinesiologist.
An essential item for the extreme camper.
The plastic toys are opening doors to cheaper, modular scientific tools.
New technology from MIT can turn anything into a "visual microphone."
The kitschy desk ornament's mechanism confounded Albert Einstein.
It cannot be reasoned with. It cannot be bargained with. It's coming for you.
There's a reason why "electrocution" sounds like "execution."
No, it's not a tiny man with a hammer.
Mental Floss spoke to ETH Zurich archivist Michael Gasser about the papers—including one letter in which Einstein calls his good friend a "frozen whale."
Science can't stop, won't stop.
Fluid dynamics has never tasted so good.
We turned to mathematicians, physicists, and engineers to find out why the lights are so frustrating—and how to improve them.
Conservators used light imaging techniques to spot a tiny windmill sketch that's invisible to the naked eye.
The director claimed that he tested the board itself to gauge its buoyancy.
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This is the first time a new inner structure has been found in the pyramid since the 19th century.
He wrote it to tip a hotel bellboy and told him "will probably be worth more than a regular tip."
It was downloaded 60,000 times in 24 hours.
The names for many of the dozens of particles that make up the universe—as well as a few that are still purely theoretical—come from ancient Greek.
"For me, it feels like the dawning of a next era in astrophysics."