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What Would Earth’s Temperature Be Like Without an Atmosphere?
OK, a couple of quick points. This is just the surface temperature of the Earth. Since the light from the…
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How to Use Physics to Tell If That Steph Curry Video Is Real
A few weeks ago, Sports Illustrated tweeted this video of Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry that instantly went…
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Could Namor’s Ankle Wings From ‘Black Panther 2’ Really Work?
But you don’t have to be a superhero to experience this kind of flight. If you have a set of…
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How Far Would You Have to Tunnel Underground to Lose 20 Pounds?
Now, what if I move outside this sphere? It turns out that the gravitational field due to a spherical distribution…
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POLL: Has Liz Truss gone up in your estimation after speech?
Wednesday saw Liz Truss march out to M People’s Moving on Up to give her speech at the Conservative Party…
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Could Climate Change Alter the Length of the Day?
Let’s consider an example with an imaginary planet. In this solar system, the planet completes one orbit around its sun…
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How Many Peanut Butter Sandwiches Does It Take to Fuel a Hulk?
Superheroes do superhero things: They jump, punch stuff, run fast, and sometimes shoot beams out of their eyes. These activities…
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What an iPhone Lidar Can Show About the Speed of Light
But since this uses the total time of flight for the ball, it gives the total distance the ball traveled—to…
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How Much Power Does Batman Need for His Ascender Gun?
Everyone has the same comment about Batman: He’s cool because he’s just a normal dude, but he’s also a superhero.…
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What Is the Ideal Gas Law?
That might seem like a large volume, but it’s not. It’s almost half of a liter, so that’s half a…
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