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Here's How Your Water Bottle Could Start a Fire
By Kimberly Hickok published
Be careful where you leave your water bottles this summer.
Artists Have Been Drawing Lightning Bolts Wrong for Centuries
By Laura Geggel published
If you draw lightning bolts like crooked zigzags, then you're doing it wrong — but at least you're in good company. Artists have drawn lightning incorrectly for hundreds of years, a new study finds.
Ghostly 'Lightning' Waves Discovered Inside a Nuclear Reactor
By Marcus Woo published
Whistler waves are normally produced in the atmosphere by lightning. They could help protect nuclear fusion reactors from runaway electrons.
Star 'DNA' Survey Could Reunite the Sun with Its Long-Lost Siblings
By Mindy Weisberger published
Is the sun due for a cosmic family reunion?
Quantum Physicists Doubled the Information Speed Limit of the Universe
By Rafi Letzter published
A team of quantum physicists has busted the limit on how fast information can move through the universe.
A Massive Electrical Field Aligned All the Snowflakes in This Week's Nor'easter
By Rafi Letzter published
A powerful storm is causing ice crystals to form strange, radar-confusing patterns above New York City.
'Exceptional Points' Could Stop Light Waves in their Tracks
By Rafi Letzter published
In a new paper, a team of researchers showed that light might be made to come to an absolute stop at certain "exceptional points."
New 'Hologram' Device Levitates Particles to Create 3D Objects in Thin Air
By Rafi Letzter published
A team of researchers at Brigham Young University has developed a new device that creates fully three-dimensional images.
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