This 'Doomsday Plane' Can Survive a Nuclear Attack By Yasemin Saplakoglu A reporter recently got a tour of the secretive military plane. Here's what she found.
The Tendency for Order to Emerge from Chaos Was Hidden in the Most Fundamental Equations of Fluid Mechanics By Yasemin Saplakoglu Order sometimes emerges from chaos in turbulent fluid flow. We may finally have a mathematical explanation for why.
Mathematicians Edge Closer to Solving a 'Million Dollar' Math Problem By Rafi Letzter A new paper could end up being a big step toward solving one of the oldest unanswered puzzles in mathematics: Is the Riemann hypothesis correct?
This Animated Mona Lisa Was Created by AI, and It Is Terrifying By Mindy Weisberger A neural network helped Mona Lisa get in touch with her feelings.
Did Scientists Just Break the Record for Highest-Temperature Superconductor? Maybe. By Yasemin Saplakoglu A superconductor lets electricity flow through it perfectly, without losing any of it.
The Government Is Serious About Creating Mind-Controlled Weapons By Edd Gent DARPA hopes to invent ways to instantly read soldiers' minds using tools like genetic engineering of the human brain, nanotechnology and infrared beams.
There's a Brand-New Kilogram, And It's Based on Quantum Physics By Rafi Letzter The kilogram isn't a thing anymore. Instead, it's an abstract idea about light and energy and fundamental universal constants.
Startup Hermeus Wants to Build a Hypersonic Jet That Flies at 5 Times the Speed of Sound By Doris Elin Salazar At Mach 5, flight times from New York to London would be reduced from 7 hours to 90 minutes.
Supersymmetric 'Sleptons' Might Exist. But They'd Have to Be Huge. By Rafi Letzter The biggest, most expensive science experiment in the world might be losing all its dark matter. But physicists are looking on the bright side.
How Does Google Earth Work? By Mark Davis Google Earth allows us to track our changing world. By providing powerful geomapping and tagging tools to everyone, anyone can explore and model the Earth like never before.
New Supercomputer Will Span Continents, Outrace World's Fastest By Mindy Weisberger Paired processors on two continents will power a new computer "brain."
What Are Centrifugal & Centripetal Forces? By Jim Lucas These two closely related forces describe circular motion, but the meanings are often mixed up.
This Apple-1 Computer Cost $666 in 1976. Now It Could Sell for $650,000 By Rafi Letzter Interested in spending your life savings on a nearly useless PC with 4 kilobytes of memory and a 1 MHz processor? You're in luck.
NASA Is Developing 'Soft Robots' That Look Like Inflatable 'Aliens' By Elizabeth Howell And they could be just the thing to explore worlds beyond Earth.
North Korea's Short-Range Missile Test Spotted from Space By Mike Wall Saturday's test was the first in 18 months by North Korea.
Watch Concrete Explode As Scientists Probe Weird Phenomenon By Stephanie Pappas Concrete can't burn, but it can blow up.
A Killer Asteroid Is Coming — We Don't Know When (So Let's Be Ready), Bill Nye Says By Mike Wall The good news is, we can do something about it.
X-37B Military Space Plane's Latest Mystery Mission Passes 600 Days By Mike Wall Exactly what it's doing up there is unclear.
What Are PFAS? By Rachel Ross These synthetic chemicals have been included in numerous household products for more than eight decades, but are they safe?
Facebook Will Be Littered with More 'Zombie' Profiles Than Living Ones by 2070 By Stephanie Pappas Facebook will be a virtual graveyard.
