Researchers balance Casimir effects, make tiny hoverboard
Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Empty space isn’t actually empty. Even if you somehow managed to suck every single atom out of it, the Universe is filled with various fields that…
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Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Empty space isn’t actually empty. Even if you somehow managed to suck every single atom out of it, the Universe is filled with various fields that…
Enlarge / Artist’s rendering of solar methanol islands. (credit: Novaton) Imagine an open ocean, Sun beating down overhead, with 70 islands of solar panels, each 100 meters (328 feet) in…
Enlarge / SAN FRANCISCO, CA – MAY 18, 2013: A sign in a Starbucks coffee shop warns customers that coffee and baked goods sold at the shop and elsewhere contain…
Enlarge / Two-state cat. (credit: RBerteig on Flickr) One thing I dislike about quantum mechanics is that it encourages journalists to overuse words like “mysterious” and “spooky.” Given that we…
Track of the 16-day Stratollite mission from mid-May to early June. When we last heard from World View, the company was performing something of an advertising stunt by launching a…