The Physics of Nearly Killing Yourself on a Motorcycle
This video shows a motorcycle traveling at a high speed narrowly avoiding a collision
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The Chatbot Therapist Will See You Now
Meet your new therapist: a chatbot that runs inside Facebook Messenger
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Want to Understand Creativity? Enlist an AI Collaborator
Scientists and artists are working to nurture creativity in computers
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The Physics of Bullets Vs. Wonder Woman’s Bracelets
Wonder Woman can deflect bullets with her Bracelets of Submission
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A Race to Develop Pollution Sensing Tech Plays Out in Oakland
Using Google Street view cars and rooftop sensors, scientists are mapping pollution block by block in California
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A Radical Proposal For Preventing Rare Genetic Diseases
Opinion: Prevention is the best cure, even for rare genetic diseases
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Crispr’s Next Big Debate: How Messy Is Too Messy?
Researchers of the gene editing technique observed mutation rates 10 times higher previously reported
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Cosmic Discoveries Fuel a Fight Over the Universe’s Beginnings
A series of observations at the very edge of the universe has reignited a debate over what lifted the primordial cosmic fog
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Physicists Find Another Gravitational Wave to Suggest Einstein Was Right
LIGO physicists just announced that they observed a gravitational wave for the third time, ever
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Watch SpaceX Relaunch a Commercial Cargo Capsule for the First Time
No other private company has ever sent the same cargo capsule into space twice
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Bailing on the Paris Agreement Leaves No Cure for Climate Change
Planet-changing carbon emissions have become a chronic condition
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Ditching the Paris Agreement Risks the Economy Even As It Harms the Planet
Bad deal or not, the Paris climate agreement is already reshaping the world's economy
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Robots Wielding Water Knives Are the Future of Farming
If humanity expects to feed its booming population off a static amount of farmland, it's going to need help
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The Physics of Ramming an Imperial Star Destroyer, Explained
This epic scene from Rogue One provides an awesome opportunity to do some physics
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How the ‘Orange Empire’ Became the Land of MegaWarehouses
Traffic and air pollution threaten the town of Moreno Valley, where developers want to build the largest warehouse project anywhere in the country
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One Man’s Quest to Make 20-Year-Old Rum in Just Six Days
Obsessive distiller Bryan Davis invented a contraption for aging booze—fast
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Rooftop Solar Panels Are Great for the Planet—But Terrible for Firefighters
New training and fire codes are supposed to make firefighters safer when they run into solar panels, but they're inconsistently applied
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Lyme Isn’t the Only Disease Ticks Are Spreading This Summer
The only way to know the risk of Powassan virus is to collect more data
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Cutting H-1B Visas Endangers Scientific Progress For Everyone
Opinion: H-1B visas are vital to US scientific advancement
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Ecologists Are Drowning in Sea of Data. These Tools Could Help
To assess the ocean's health, ecology's "rugged individualists" learned to get with the big data program
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Want Efficient Energy? Try Carbon Dioxide-Powered Turbines
Supercritical carbon dioxide is super hot, super dense, and super good at turning heat into electricity
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For Modern Astronomers, It’s Learn to Code or Get Left Behind
Fledgling astronomers still don't take meaningful courses in modern coding, data science, or their best practices
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