We have all experienced the force of gravity. It is what happens to you when you jump up into the air. Disappointingly for anyone with ambitions to be Supergirl or Superman, we tend to fall right back down to the ground. But what if we could switch gravity off? Image: Charlotte May Godfrey
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Light is one of those things that we don’t tend to understand. If you were to zoom in on a ray of light, what would you see? Sure, light travels incredibly fast, but what is it that’s doing the travelling? Many of us would struggle to explain. Image: ilovepics11
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It’s an urban myth that had US TV show Mythbusters weighing a truck full of pigeons on a scale and getting them to fly. Now it seems there’s some truth to the idea that a truck driver carrying a cargo of birds can lighten the load by making the birds fly. Image: Lentink
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How could an equation ever hope to capture something as complex as the human mind? In a sense we’ve long been describing the brain with numbers – 86 billion neurons, 1200 cubic centimetres, 1400 grams. But you might expect that more ambitious attempts to explain the brain with mathematics would be doomed to failure – some neuroscientists beg to differ. Image: A Health Blog
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No matter how long you gaze at the clouds in the sky, you’ll never spot them behaving like those in Martin Zwierlein’s lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bizarrely, when two of Zwierlein’s clouds collide, they bounce off one another like billiard balls. The feat could aid our understanding of some of the most enigmatic systems in the universe. Image: Velo Steve
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A team of chemists think we can get power from air – if we don’t mind violating a long-held...
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You may think it’s impossible to see what’s on the other side of painted-over glass –...
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The rate that a crowd can exit a packed room through a narrow exit rises if an obstacle is placed...
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For 100 years, physicists have struggled to find a mechanism that produces both large and small...
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A physicist and erstwhile rock guitarist, has discovered that his old amplifiers hold the key to...
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Is it possible to have a shower of constant warmth when you’re sharing a hot-water supply?...
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