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Researcher devise 'metallic wood' that's stronger than titanium but could float on water

"The reason we call it metallic wood is not just its density, which is about that of wood, but its cellular nature," says lead author James Pikul.

Earth's inner core became solid just in time to save the planet

Drama, suspense, plot twists -- science has it all!

Scientists recreate 'Freak Wave' in the lab -- and it looks like art

It looks eerly similar to Hokusai's 'Great Wave' print from the XIXth century.

Scientists use nano-ink to 3D print color-changing cup

Talk about a surprising change!

Perturbations in Saturn's rings reveal how long a day is on the gas giant

Can I have weekdays in Saturn-days and weekends in Earth-days?

Engineers study the in-depth structure of wings to make better adhesive materials

"We believe that these structures could serve as inspiration for an interlocking one-directional adhesive or a material with directionally tailored permeability," the team said.

Researchers find black hole that spins almost as fast as (we think) they can spin

Hope it won't get dizzy and stumble our way!

CERN draws up plans for new particle accelerator four times bigger than the LHC

Deep physics might have a new toy. Full operation expected for 2050.

Sea level change isn't constant across the East Coast -- because of long-past glaciers

Gone but not forgotten.

Saturn's rings are raining down -- in about 100 million years, they'll be gone

If you like it then you should have kept the rings on it.

Sound levitation technology might one day replace laser surgery

Sounds like magic!

Tornadoes form from the ground up, not the other way around as previously believed

The kind of research that could save lives.

MIT technique can shrink objects down to the nanoscale

The technique can produce structures one-thousandth the size of the originals.

The Large Hadron Collider shut down for upgrades -- until 2021

This time, it's all going according to plan

Oxford scientist may have finally solved dark matter riddle -- the universe might be made out of a 'negative mass' fluid

If proven right, this theory could be one of the most important developments in 21st-century physics.

Volcanoes are fed by 'mush reservoirs' instead of magma chambers, study suggests

We mush talk about this.

"Wearable microbrewery" could serve as radiation exposure marker

Yeast badges could be the radiation sensors of the future.

Supermassive black holes like to wear gas donuts -- and we found out why

In all honesty, I'd wear a donut if I could get away with it, too.

Termites recycle their methane -- scientists want us to copy them

This isn't the first time we've tried copying termites.

World's first ion-drive airplane can fly without any moving parts

The solid-state propulsion system works by ionizing the air.

The kilogram, ampere, mole, and Kelvin are changing to stay the same

Not to brag, but the SI is at least one foot (see what I did there?) ahead of Imperial units.

The Earth is smack in the middle of a 'dark matter hurricane'

And this could prove the perfect opportunity to identify the elusive form of matter.

'Quantum compass' can locate objects without GPS

The device is completely self-contained, being able to determine the position of an object on the globe with no external reference required.

Scientists create a Bose-Einstein condensate in space for the first time

That's just colored water in the picture.

New study reveals why dandelions are among the best fliers -- they take to the air in a unique way

We have a lot to learn from the humble dandelion.

How supercapacitors could usher in a new age for hybrid vehicles

Supercapacitors, super cars.

World's fastest camera captures 10 trillion frames per second

The unprecedented scale of imaging can record even the slightest changes in the behavior of light.

Stephen Hawking's final paper suggests black holes store information about missing matter in 'soft hairs'

The late physicist's very last paper offers new insight into the black hole information paradox.

Planetary rings are surprisingly chemically-rich, paper reports

The findings raise some interesting questions about these beautiful structures.

Polymer paint passively cools down any surface

The paint can cool buildings by as much as 6°C compared to the surroundings.

Cheap nano-filter scrubs toxic metals from polluted water

A small device to tackle a huge problem.

Bombs dropped during the Second World War were felt to the edge of space

We've come a long way from being scared, scrawny apes in the savannah.

Meet the strongest material in the universe: nuclear pasta

It's a mind-perplexing 10 billion times stronger than steel.

Honeybee clusters act as 'super-organisms' to keep everyone safe during bad weather

Intelligent behavior emerging from a group of relatively unintelligent organisms.

She lost the Nobel Prize to her supervisor in 1974 -- now, she got a $3 million physics prize, and donated all of it

The pioneering physicist gave all the prize money away.

Jupiter's magnetic field is extremely bizarre, potentially due to unknown processes in its core

We have no idea why this happens -- but we do have hypotheses.

Physicists devise programmable optical quantum computer

A step closer to quantum computers.

Physicists may have solved 'chicken or the egg' paradox -- both can come first

Of course it had to be weird and confusing.

How to blow the perfect soap bubbles, explained by science

A favorite childhood pastime, now decoded.

At Last, Scientists Spot Higgs Boson Decaying into Fundamental Particles

The Higgs saga continue.

Slow and steady wins the race: fastest animals are actually the slowest throughout their lifetimes

This surprising observation applies to machines as well!

We're living in the Milky Way, version 2.0

Our galaxy is like a phoenix.

Earth's magnetic poles might flip a lot faster than we thought -- and we're woefully unprepared

A pole reversal could fry our electronics.

Scientists have calculated the force of a photon hitting an object

It's a tiny value, but a huge discovery.

Nanoparticle treatment developed to scrub water clean of oil pollution

Nobody likes oil in their water.

Mathematicians solve old mystery about spaghetti breaking

Here's a question you never knew you wanted to answer.

NASA achieves coldest temperature in space, probes the nature of gravity

The most sophisticated fridge in space is already delivering fantastic results.

Scientists manage to keep proteins 'alive' outside cells

The discovery paves the way for advanced materials that have the same functionality as living organisms.

A shattered tectonic plate underpins the Tibetan Plateau -- explaining the area's weird earthquakes

The frayed head of the Indian plate keeps shaking up the whole area.

NASA eavesdropped on the Sun, and they made a video so you can hear it too

With a bit of help from NASA, you can now hear the sun's roar -- and it's glorious.

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