Just before sodium and water react, spikes of sodium metal shoot out into the water, a team of chemists discovered.
Watch Sodium Explode In Water At 10,000 Frames Per Second
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YouTube Now Plays HTML5 Video By Default, Eschews Adobe Flash
YouTube is putting another nail in Adobe Flash's coffin as it switches to streaming HTML5 video by default in most modern browsers.
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Humans, Not Climate Change, Caused Caribbean Bat Extinctions
A new study challenges earlier theories of how some species of Caribbean bats died out.
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How To Master Your Third Arm
In the 2002 movie Minority Report, Tom Cruise plays with a futuristic computer like a maestro. With a flick of his wrist, data moves from one screen to the next, and a…
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Charles Townes, One Of The Fathers Of The Laser, Dies
Townes' science achievements are evident from how frequently he shows up Popular Science's archives.
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Bat-Like Bot Soars In The Sky And Crawls On The Ground
DALER is a flying wing that swoops like a bat in the sky, and wobbles forward like a bat on the ground. Created by Ludovic Daler, the Deployable Air-Land Exploration Robot…
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This 3D Render Of A Paris Apartment Looks Amazingly Real
One 3D artist has created an impressive photorealistic computer rendering of a surprisingly mundane subject: a Paris apartment.
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'Super Saturn' Exoplanet Has Massive Rings
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Next Generation of Chinese Space Vehicles Begins Its Long March (By Standing Up)
The CZ-7 is one of China's next big rockets, and engineers are putting it together for China's big space future.
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Modeling Suspects' Faces Using DNA From Crime Scenes
This winter, a biotechnology company began offering a whole new service to police departments.
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FAA Declares Super Bowl A 'No Drone Zone'
Every day, people find new places where they shouldn’t fly drones. Earlier this week, it was the White House grounds. Before that, a meth-smuggling remote control copter…
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Control Your Smartphone With The Wave Of A Hand
In 2010, Microsoft popularized gesture controls with the release of the Kinect. In its first 60 days on sale, the device sold 133,000 units per day, a Guinness World…
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Three Body Hacks You Shouldn't Try At Home
To improve themselves, a growing number of people are going beyond meditation or exercise. These brave pioneers are trying to hack their bodies with bacteria, special diets,…
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New Evidence That Baby Chicks Have Mental Number Lines Like Humans Do
Think about a series of numbers, 1 through 10. Chances are, you imagined the numerals in a line, in increasing order from left to right. That's the effect of your mental…
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We Computer-Simulated The Deflategate Football Scandal
Last week, after the New England Patriots destroyed the Indianapolis Colts by a whopping 38 points, the Colts accused their opponents of under-inflating footballs. Thus…
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How We Used To Talk About Measles
The happiest place on Earth isn't so cheerful these days. In December, a large number of people started coming down with measles after visiting Disneyland in California.
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Get Ready For The Next Generation Fighter Jet
Since the dawn of the jet age, military planners and industrialists have grouped the fighters borne forth from their iron loins into generations. Borrowing the term from…
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The Month In Plague: Measles In Disneyland, Guinea Worm Eradication, And More
Your monthly roundup of infestations, contagions, and controls from around the web:
In outbreak news
A measles outbreak at Disneyland has now infected a reported 100 peoplein several US states—mostly California—as well as in Mexico. Some experts say the spread is directly related to the anti-vaccine movement, although others point out that it’s a little more complicated. And Vox has a great piece explaining the nuances of recent measles outbreaks across the U.S.
Meanwhile, Ebola cases are thankfully dropping in West Africa. Earlier this month, Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers…
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Watch A Rocket Blast Off Into An Aurora [Video]
A few weeks ago, we wrote about an experiment that would launch a probe through an aurora, to try to unravel the Northern Lights' mysterious electrical structure. The…
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This Spider Weaves A Web Of Charged Silk
Spider silk is legendarily strong and light. So much so, that researchers are incorporating (or, at least, attempting to incorporate) variations of the material into…
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