Hawaii's False Missile Alert Shows Americans Have No Idea What to Do in Nuclear Attack By Jeanna Bryner An erroneous alert about a nuclear attack was sent to Hawaii residents. The ensuing confusion and hysteria revealed that Americans are not prepared.
Japan Just Shot a Fake Asteroid with a Space Bullet … for Science By Meghan Bartels Say you need to prepare to shoot bullets into an asteroid and suck up the debris kicked up from the blast, then tuck it away for safekeeping.
AI Sucks at Making Adorable Cat Photos, Clearly Misses the Entire Point of the Internet By Mindy Weisberger When neural networks attempted to create images of cats, the results were cat-astrophic.
Gorgeous Fractal Patterns, Normally Found Only in Nature, Re-Created Using Laser Light By Yasemin Saplakoglu A human-made thing created a very beautiful, natural pattern.
China Tests World's 1st Robot Ship for Launching Small Rockets By Meghan Bartels China has built the world's first robotic, partially submersible boat for launching sounding rockets — a technology that will help meteorologists better understand the atmosphere over Earth's oceans.
What Is Genetic Modification? By Rachel Ross Genetic modification purposefully alters the genetic makeup of organisms through controlled breeding or via genetic engineering technologies such as CRISPR.
This Is the Purest Beam of Light in the World By Rafi Letzter The device, built to be portable enough for use in space, produces a beam of laser light that changes less over time than any other laser humanity has created.
New MIT Laser Device Whispers Secret Sounds Into Your Ear By Rafi Letzter Imagine sitting down to dinner with a group of friends, when a laser tickles the water molecules inside your ear. "Hello!" you hear.
Physicists Made a Flying Army of Laser Schrödinger's Cats By Rafi Letzter A laser pulse glanced off a rubidium atom and entered the quantum world — taking on the weird physics of Schrödinger's cat.
Stratolaunch, Builder of Gargantuan Airplane, Drops Rocket Plans By Megan Gannon Stratolaunch will continue to work on the world's largest airplane, but the company will abandon plans for its own rockets.
Check Out These Amazing Super-Detailed Images of Fruit Fly Brains By Rafi Letzter A team of neuroscientists have produced a series of amazing, detailed images of fruit fly brains using a brand-new combination of imaging techniques.
Physicists Want to Build an Even More Powerful Atom Smasher at CERN By Yasemin Saplakoglu The search for the universe's hidden particles continues
Electricity Basics: Resistance, Inductance and Capacitance By Jim Lucas Resistors, inductors and capacitors are basic electrical components that make modern electronics possible.
Physicists Built a Machine That Breaks the Normal Rules of Light By Rafi Letzter Physicists have built a ring in which pulses of light whip circles around each other and the normal rules that govern light's behavior stop applying.
Scientists Are Legit Building a Steam-Powered Spaceship, And It Sounds Awesome By Brandon Specktor Half a century after the first manned space flight, space travel may be about to enter the age of steam.
Mathematicians Discovered a Computer Problem that No One Can Ever Solve By Rafi Letzter Researchers working on machine learning have discovered a problem that no one, anywhere in the universe, will ever be able to solve.
Amelia Earhart Would Have a Hard Time Disappearing in 2019 By Brian Strzempkowski, Shawn Pruchnicki From the early years of aviation up until about 2000, the main way pilots navigated was by playing connect-the-dots across a map.
China May Have Put a Working Electromagnetic Gun on a Warship. Is This a Big Deal? By Rafi Letzter China appears to have beaten the U.S. in the race to mount a rail gun on a battleship. Does it matter?
AI Can Now Decode Words Directly from Brain Waves By Rafi Letzter The technology could help people with diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) speak via a brain-computer interface.
