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Weekend News Round-up In 5 Minutes (Video)

Michael Warbux | Posted 05.14.2013 | Weird News

At a Mother's Day Parade, there was a New Orleans Shooting that left 19 people injured. Ten Men, seven women, and two children. Reports state that thr...

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The Most Anticipated Movie Of 2013

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 05.09.2013 | Entertainment

Alfonso Cuaron's last film was the 2006 film "Children Of Men." Seven years later, the director has returned with a project even more ambitious than t...

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Hunt For Elusive 'Gravity Waves' Heats Up

Posted 05.03.2013 | Science

Read More: Einstein, Video, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Space, Physics, Gravity Waves, Black Holes, Gravity, General Relativity, Science News

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/02/2013 02:07 PM EDT on SPACE.com In the next five years or so, scientists are poised to discover proof that spa...

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Key Einstein Theory Faces Toughest Test Yet

Posted 04.26.2013 | Science

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 04/25/2013 02:02 PM EDT on SPACE.com An extreme pair of superdense stars orbiting each other has put Einstein's gen...

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Three Is a Crowd

Mario Livio | Posted 04.16.2013 | Science

Many questions related to the three-body problem, and even more questions related to the general n-body problem, remain open. In particular, we don't even know with certainty whether or not our own solar system is stable in the very long run.

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WATCH: What Happens When You Cry In Space?

The Huffington Post | Irina Dvalidze | Posted 04.11.2013 | Science

Read More: Chris Hadfield, Chris Hadfield Crying, Space Station, Space Shuttle, Crying, Canada, Crying in Space Video, Cry, Iss, Space, Tears, Hadfield, Chris Hadfield Video, Youtube, Viral, Gravity, Astronaut, Science News

In space, no one can hear you scream -- at least that's how Hollywood promoted the 1979 blockbuster "Alien." But what happens if you cry in space? In ...

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NSFW: Gravity Is No One's Friend

Posted 03.22.2013 | Los Angeles

Read More: Jiggling Bodies, Paul Young Gallery, Michael Haussman Bodies, Video, Gravity Bodies, Paul Young Michael Haussman, Michael Haussman, Gravity, Youngprojects, Los Angeles News

Gravity isn't kind to aging bodies, but the decades-long transformation makes for a gentle easing into wrinkles, cellulite and skin flaps. Not so ...

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Bizarre Gravity Waves Take Physicist By Surprise

Posted 02.23.2013 | Science

Read More: Video, Daily Discovery, Weird Science, Physics, Gravity Waves, Earth, Weather, Star Shaped Gravity Waves, Gravity, Science News

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 02/22/2013 11:11 AM EST on LiveScience Star-shaped waves can form in vibrating tanks of liq...

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Is a Hot Object Heavier Than a Cold One?

Quora | Posted 04.21.2013 | Science

Read More: Science, Objects, Mass, Weight, Gravity, Physics, Science News

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Frank Heile, Physicist, Software Engineer, Consciousness Theory Yes. If you have absolutely ...

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Is There Absolute Truth?

John Backman | Posted 03.31.2013 | Religion

Read More: Dialogue, Fundamentalism, God, Absolute Truth, Faith, Gravity, Slavery, Truth, Religion, Religion News

This attitude can have profound effects on our world and our deepest selves. By definition, if our orientation is toward pursuing truth rather than possessing it, we are admitting that we don't know, that there is a great deal left to learn and discover.

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5 Sex Stages Every Woman Goes Through

Janie Emaus | Posted 03.15.2013 | Fifty

Read More: Hot Flashes, Sexual Changes, Sexual, Aging, G-Spot, Practice, Vaginal Dryness, Sex, Gravity, Better Sex, Love Post50, 50 Sex, Fifty News

Practice hitting baseball after baseball and you're sure to raise your batting average. Play the guitar everyday for 25 years and you're destined, if nothing else, to entertain family and friends at barbeques and campfires. So, what about sex?

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Space-Time Study Tests Key Einstein Concept

Posted 01.10.2013 | Science

Read More: Video, Space-Time, Theory of Relativity, Physics, General Relativity, Quantum Foam, Gravity, Albert Einstein, Gravity Probe B, Science News

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 01/10/2013 12:38 PM EST on SPACE.com Space-time is smooth rather than foamy, a new study suggests, scoring a possib...

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WATCH: Slow-Mo Slinky Spotlights Freaky Physics Of Springs

The Huffington Post | Jacqueline Howard | Posted 12.19.2012 | Science

Read More: Slinky Drop, Video, Slinky, Physics, Slinky Science, Science, Slinkies, Slinky Slow Motion, Science News, Falling Slinky, Gravity, Science News

A falling slinky may bring back fond childhood memories. Remember watching yours flip end over end as it wobbled its way downstairs? Or letting it dan...

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The Measure of All Things

Mario Livio | Posted 12.02.2012 | Science

Read More: Proton, Superclusters, Sizes, Martin Rees, Bernard Carr, Gravity, General Relativity, Albert Einstein, Science News

Sizes in our universe are primarily determined by the weakness of gravity in the atomic microworld. As a result, all the structures that are dominated by gravitational effects (such as stars, galaxies, and the cosmos as a whole) have to be extremely massive.

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'Failed Star' Study Sheds Light On Earth's Future

| Posted 06.15.2012 | Science

Read More: Star, Video, Astrophysics, Astronomy, Brown Dwarf, Space, Physics, Solar System, Sun, Planet, Gravity, Science News

By Govert Schilling ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—Brown dwarfs are a sorry lot. If it wasn't bad enough that these Jupiter-sized "failed stars" are born too...

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Tiny Cosmic Blip Sparks Big Discovery By Astronomy 'Detectives'

Posted 05.11.2012 | Science

Read More: Super Earth, Alien Planet, Video, Planets, Astronomy, New Discoveries, Computers, Solar System, Gravitational Pull, Alien, Gravity, Science News

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/10/2012 02:09 PM EDT on SPACE.com Detective astronomers have discovered at least one unseen alien planet, and po...

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Watch: China's High Flying Artist

Posted 03.29.2012 | Arts

Read More: Youtube, Chinese Government, Video, Flying Monk, Performance Art, Chinese Art, Li Wei Chinese Art, Ai Weiwei, Gravity, Li Wei, Arts News

We always thought that Ai Weiwei was the bravest artist in China. But performance artist Li Wei, here seen propelling himself high into the clouds, is...

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Practicing the Power of Presence Makes the World a Better Place

Dennis Merritt Jones | Posted 04.16.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Principles, Practicing the Presence, Infinite Power, Making-the-World-a-Better-Place, Gravity, Oneness, Inner Peace, Meditation, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News

Mindfully living in the presence in the present moment can change our experience of life in a heartbeat. Living consciously, connected to the whole of life changes how we see ourselves and our world -- it makes the planet a better place because it makes us better people.

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Gravity Surprise May Affect Search For Habitable Planets

Posted 02.12.2012 | Science

Read More: Exoplanet, Alien Planet, Video, Planet, Waterless, Dry, Gravity, Greenhouse Effect, Science News

By: Charles Q. Choi, Astrobiology Magazine Contributor Published: 02/11/2012 02:00 PM EST on SPACE.com Alien planets might experience tidal for...

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Beyond Genesis: Is Science Past the Big Bang Already?

Adam Frank | Posted 03.06.2012 | Science

Read More: Big Bang, Space-Time, Big Bang Theory, Space-Time Continuum, Quantum Mechanics, General-Relativity, Gravity, Matter and Energy, Earth's Origins, Science News

The Big Bang is, without doubt, one of the greatest achievements of human civilization. So why then are so many scientists waiting so expectantly for its immanent demise?

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You Do Not Have a Theory

Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.05.2012 | Home

Read More: What Would Happen If, Scientific Method, Talk Nerdy to Me, Hypothesis, Observation, Science, Theory, Evolution, Gravity, Home News

You do not have a theory! You have an idea. A theory is not something that one person can so arrogantly possess.

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Is There Any Escape From Black Holes?

Posted 10.11.2011 | Green

Black holes are terrifying. Perhaps the scariest thing about them is that there is no escape from a black hole. Or is there? New research suggests ...

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Jackson Pollock: Physicist?

Posted 09.07.2011 | Arts

Read More: Drip Paintings, Jackson Pollock, Physics, L. Mahadevan, Robert Motherwell, Science, Claude Cernuschi, Abstract Expressionism, Scientific Computing, Painting, Andrzej Herczy?Ski, Wired, Harvard University, Physics Today, Gravity, Pollock, Arts News

Can we learn about physics from Jackson Pollock? What about the other way around? A recent paper in the scientific journal Physics Today by Andrzej He...

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The 'Euthanasia Coaster' And The Art Of The Amusement Park

Posted 08.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Industrial Design, Julijonas Urbonas, Amusement Park, Lithuania, Conceptual Art, Royal College of Art, Sculpture, Euthanasia Coaster, Design, Roller Coaster, G-Force, Euthanasia, Gravity, Arts News

The "Euthanasia Coaster," a roller-coaster designed to be fatal, is a conceptual art piece and model for a more pleasant way to die. The sinister-...

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The Moon Is Not a Harsh Mistress

Santhosh Mathew, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Gravitational Pull, Full Moon, Moon, Moon Tides, Ocean Tides, Gravity, Supermoon, New Moon, Technology News

The speculation that the full moon and its gravitational effect on Earth could trigger earthquakes and other natural disasters is getting attention in some quarters.

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