Physics

NASA is literally over the Moon when it comes to Artemis. Officials have declared that the Orion spacecraft is exceeding expectations and has just gone beyond the Moon and completed its closest flyby – just 130 kilometers (80 miles) from the Lunar surface. The Artemis I mission has no crew on board and is designed …

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Levitation of an ant leg and a bee wing. Credit: UTS Center for Audio Acoustics and Vibration The theory of acoustic levitation is extended by new research, which also highlights potential uses. Sound waves, like an invisible pair of tweezers, can be used to levitate small objects in the air. Although DIY acoustic levitation kits …

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A couple of Japanese math enthusiasts recently spent 24 hours covering the walls of an entire room with calculations in an attempt to find the ultimate answer to the ‘1+1’ formula. It’s widely regarded as the easiest mathematical formula, but ‘1+1’ isn’t as simple as it appears. Well, at least not to math purists looking …

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Everyone has a tendency to glorify the past and assume that everything sucks now. It’s human nature. But when it comes to car design, older doesn’t mean better. Some Tumblr users learned this the hard way after posting photos of classic automobiles that had been in wrecks and concluding that they were better made than …

‘It’s Physics’ — Tumblr Users Get Schooled on Modern Cars Versus Old-School Ones Read More »

Image: Pablo Garcia (NASA/MSFC) ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. After decades of effort, scientists have finally discovered the secret mechanism that powers the brightest light shows in the universe, which are emitted by absurd energetic beams that shoot out of explosive galaxies known as blazars, reports a …

Scientists Solve Major Mystery of Powerful Energy Beams Pointed at Earth Read More »

It’s a very big universe we live in, and we need big units to describe it. The body that defines our units has come to the rescue, adding the prefixes ronna and quetta for things that are just too big to be comfortably measured in yottas. On the other hand, for when you want to …

The Earth Now Weighs Six Ronnagrams, The Sun Two Thousand Quettagrams Read More »

Restroom visitors can expect cleaner knees and tidier floors, if they happen to use a new urinal inspired by curves in nature. The key to making a splashless urinal is ensuring that a person’s pee stream hits the porcelain at a shallow angle no matter where it is aimed, researchers report November 22 at the …

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