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The Chiefs kicker who told women to be 'homemakers' rather than have careers has a physicist mother
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker faced backlash after encouraging women to embrace being "…
Caralynn Matassa
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Starship's first liftoff toward space created the equivalent of a volcanic eruption in the launchpad, physicist finds
SpaceX's Starship rocket atop its Super Heavy booster is the most powerful rocket in history, capab…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Erin Sn…
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A theoretical physicist says AI is just a ‘glorified tape recorder’ and people’s fears about it are overblown
Michio Kaku is the latest expert to shut down AI fears saying the technology is not humanlike at th…
Sawdah Bhaimiya
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A physicist says it's 'quite possible' a SpaceX launch punched a hole in parts of the Earth's atmosphere
Jeff Baumgardner, a physicist from Boston University, discussed the possibility of ionospheric hole…
Beatrice Nolan
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Did Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket make a hole in Earth's ionosphere? A US space physicist claims it did
A Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX earlier this month has made a temporary hole in Ea…
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The world's top alien hunters explain why a Harvard physicist's discovery of 'alien' tech is likely a false alarm
Scientists from top alien-hunting organizations SETI and METI don't think Harvard physicist, Avi Lo…
Adam Barnes
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Chien-Shiung Wu, a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, spent her career fighting for gender equality in science
In the 1950s, Wu devised a series of experiments that disproved the law of conservation of parity. …
Yoonji Han
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Physicist who once got caught in Titanic wreckage in a sub says its time to stop 'joyride' trips to Titanic wreck site
"This is a serious business," Michael Guillen said. "The ocean is a merciless beast, really. It's r…
Natalie Musumeci
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A nuclear physicist describes 7 things you probably didn't know about radioactive fallout from a nuclear bomb
Nuclear warheads, like the one shown here, are short- and long-term killers.gerasimov_foto_174/Shut…
Adam Barnes
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Physicists analyzed the earliest light in the universe and detected dark matter from 12 billion years ago
Researchers used radiation left over from the Big Bang to explore how dark matter is distributed ar…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist urges Italians to cook pasta with the stove off to save 8 minutes of gas and reduce soaring energy bills
Chefs reportedly said pasta "will cook really badly" and turn sticky if the heat is turned off. But…
Kate Duffy
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An interview with an inspiring particle physicist from Pune who 'happens to be a woman'
Particle physicist, Professor Rohini Godbole, who was awarded the Padma Shri in 2019 and the French…
Meet Rohini Godbole, a scientist who just happens to be a woman
On this International Day for Women and Girls in Science, Business Insider India spoke with an este…
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A French physicist posted a photo he claimed was from the James Webb Space Telescope, praising the 'level of detail' — it turned out to be a slice of chorizo
Etienne Klein posted a photo of chorizo sausage on his Twitter, joking that it was an image from th…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
We asked a physicist to break down the realism of 11 'Fast and Furious' movie stunts
Could you launch a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro onto the deck of a boat? Can you roll a 1987 Buick Grand N…
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We asked a physicist to break down the realism of 11 'Fast and Furious' movie stunts
Dr. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky takes a closer look at the physics of the "Fast and Furious" franchise.
Ju Shardlow,Brett Jordan
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Legendary mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson has died at the age of 96
Dyson worked on a diverse range of physics and mathematical problems: nuclear reactors, solid-state…
Bani Sapra
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A YouTuber bet a physicist $10,000 that a wind-powered vehicle could travel twice as fast as the wind itself - and won
A UCLA physics professor bet a popular science YouTuber $10,000 that one of his videos promoted fal…
Aylin Woodward
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Physicists made a superconductor that works at room temperature. It could one day give rise to high-speed floating trains.
The superconductor only works at pressures roughly equal to those in the Earth's core, but it shows…
Susie Neilson
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Google doodles physicist Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau — who brought cinema to life
He showed how the human mind captures and perceives a string of actions or motions over a span o…