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The Very Hungry Maggot
What happens when you give hundreds of puppies a single bowl of food? This mechanical engineer is trying to solve this problem with physics…and maggots.
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How To Spot The Engineering Tricks Hidden In Buildings
It takes a lot of crafty physics to keep a skyscraper standing. A structural engineer tells the secrets of her trade.
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February 23, 2018
Roboticists are turning to fleshy substances to build a fleet of bio-inspired robots. Plus, a structural engineer talks the crafty physics that keeps a skyscraper standing.
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February 16, 2018
How do ice skaters master the perfect spin? We take a look at the physics. Plus, improvements in AI can make it hard to tell real media from fake.
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Cosmic Questions In Comic Book Form
In “The Dialogues,” a new graphic novel by theoretical physicist Clifford Johnson, the superheroes are scientists—and they’ll teach you a thing or two about physics.
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Sorry, But Still No Aliens
Plus: News of ancient migrations, strange dimensional physics, and the silliness of ‘raw water.’
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December 22, 2017
The big, lingering questions in physics—and why scientists love them. Plus: The Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count isn’t just for the birds.
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The Rules Of Entanglement, Reining In Stem Cell Claims, And Why You Shouldn’t Lick Your Turtle
Researchers have shown mathematically that the weirdness of quantum entanglement may be an essential part of the universe’s physics.
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Could Thor Punch The Hulk Without Knocking Himself Over?
Mythbusting the physics of this summer’s superhero blockbusters.
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July 28, 2017
Testing the physics of this summer’s superhero blockbusters. And we revisit the pseudoscientific ideas of the 1950s, like “Hollow Earthism.”