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MIT and Harvard Engineers Create Collapsible Buckliball
A group of engineers at MIT and Harvard University were inspired by a collapsible, spherical toy (the Hoberman Sphere) to create the buckliball, a hollow, spherical object made of soft rubber containing no moving parts, designed with 24 carefully spaced dimples. (March 26, 2012)

Team Flies a 45 Foot, 800 Pound Paper Airplane as Part of Challenge to Encourage Kids to be Engineers
The Pima Air and Space Museum in Arizona successfully flew a 45-foot paper airplane designed by engineers. (March 23, 2012)

Researchers Capture First Images of Atoms Moving in a Molecule
Researchers have captured images of atoms moving in a molecule for the first time using a new ultrafast camera. (March 7, 2012)

New World Record for Longest Paper Airplane Throw
John Collins, a producer at KRON-TV in San Francisco, made a paper airplane that has set a new world record for distance. (March 4, 2012)

Competitors Launch Pumpkins With Catapults in Last Fling Pumpkin Sling
Robotics and engineering clubs battle it out at the annual Last Fling Pumpkin Sling. (October 24, 2011)

Slinky Physics: Slinky Drop Recorded in Ultra Slow Motion
Veritasium recorded these videos of a slinky being dropped in slow motion. (September 28, 2011)

CERN Researchers Recorded Particles Traveling Faster Than the Speed of Light
Scientists at CERN's lab near Geneva claim to have recorded subatomic particles, called neutrinos, traveling faster than the speed of light. (September 22, 2011)

Physicist Michio Kaku Explains the Concept of a Space Elevator
Physicist Michio Kaku talked to The Daily aobut the concept of a space elevator. (July 31, 2011)

U.S. Postal Service Honors Four American Scientists With Forever Stamps
Four American scientists have been honored on Forever stamps issued by the U. (June 20, 2011)

The Physics of a Wet Dog Shaking Itself Dry
Watch a video that shows the physics of a wet dog shaking itself dry. (October 27, 2010)

Dr. Michio Kaku Talks Back to the Future Science
CNN decided today was a good day to interview a theoretical physicist about the science in Back to the Future II. (July 5, 2010)

Large Hadron Collider Sets Collision Record
The BBC reports that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has produced record-breaking high-energy particle collisions. (March 30, 2010)

Electron in Motion Filmed For the First Time
Scientists have managed to capture an electron in motion on film for the first time. (February 25, 2008)

Scientists Invent Blackest Black
Researchers have made a substance that is so dark it absorbs more than 99. (January 30, 2008)

German Physicists Claim to Have Broken Speed of Light
Telegraph. (August 16, 2007)

Mather and Smoot Win Nobel Prize in Physics
John C Mather and George F Smoot have won have won the 2006 Nobel Physics Prize, for "their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB)". (October 3, 2006)

No Two Snowflakes are Alike
MSNBC. (January 16, 2006)

Stop Global Warming With Giant Fresnel Lens
Gregory Benford, a science fiction author and professor of plasma physics and astrophysics at the University of California, has introduced a plan to stop global warming. (April 12, 2005)