Science and reality
In the recent LIGO announcement, it was claimed the event was two colliding black holes 1.3 billion years ago. How do we know this?
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Ole Roemer used the moons of Jupiter to estimate the speed of light. Here's how he did it.
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A number of volcanoes around the world put on impressive shows over the weekend, including Santiaguito, Turrialba, and Soputan.
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What path should you take to catch another football player? Here are three different ways to run the play.
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Things had gotten quiet at Japan’s Sakurajima for the past few months, but today the volcano unleashed an impressive explosive eruption. If you watch the video of the eruption, you can see incandescent volcanic bombs and ash being hurled hundreds of meters into the air — and the eruption even generated some of its own lightning. I’ve […]
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In so-called mechanical doping, a rider hides an electric motor in a bike. How could you detect these motors without taking the bike apart?
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Nevados de Chillán is showing signs of continued restlessness. The question is where does it lead.
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The MythBusters lifted a car with a vacuum cleaner. Could you do the same thing by replacing the vacuum cleaner with a human sucking through a straw?
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El Misti might be reawakening after centuries of quiet, but reports of eruption from Chimborazo in Ecuador prove to be false.
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Here is a quick introduction to the superposition of electric fields and visualizing the E-field due to a dipole using VPython.
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