Physical Science

The Switchblade, a flying motorcycle brainstormed into reality by its visionary inventor, Sam Bousfield, may soon take to the skies. Flying cars have been a mainstay of science fiction from the days of Hugo Gernsback and pulp fiction to the…
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A mixture is when there is a combination of at least two or more substances physically combined together, not chemically. This means that the atoms of each of the substance to do not chemically bind together and can therefore be…
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NASA is always working on its next technological advancement to help with the exploration of space. One of the advancements currently on their list of achievements is the Snakebot. These were created to look and move like the biological creature…
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Scientists have discovered how to decode human brainwaves and intelligence agencies are rubbing their hands. In possibly the greatest potential breakthrough for spy agencies, mind-reading machines are about to become a reality. According to research published in the online journal…
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Researchers recreated conditions after the Big Bang and found that time only travels one-way. During 2010, world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking proclaimed time travel possible. Now two electrical engineers, Igor Smolyaninov and Yu-Ju Hung, both from the University of Maryland, beg…
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In a paper that was presented to a meeting of the American Chemical Society, Harvard scientists said that they have successfully used an electric wand to put out a fire. This leads to hopes that firefighters could some day be…
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Superconductors are material with an electrical resistance of zero below a certain temperature. The electrical resistance of conductive materials tends to drop when the temperature is decreased, but even common conductors such as copper will still show some resistance even…
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Perhaps worried that international scrutiny of Colonel Gadaffi’s tottering regime in Libya was robbing Iran of their rightful place as maddest country in the Middle East, their Fars news agency have now declared that Iranians have developed and built the…
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Many materials conduct electricity while others resist its flow. Silver, copper, and aluminum are famous conductors, but in fact, all metals conduct electricity and heat to a degree and most elements are metals. If a charge goes in one end…
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Move over “Bessie the Mule,” BigDog is coming! Boston Dynamic’s creation, BigDog is barely more than a set of four legs with a brain—but what a brain! It balances on ice, catches itself when it slips, trudges up slippery, snowy…
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