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The Nano-Car:

When scientists forgo utility and just want to impress people.

Why don't they do things like that more often?

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The Poisson Formula

IT'S A TRAP!

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Mind-bending illusion - the magnetic slope!

Are those balls rolling uphill? No; they’re part of the impossible motion illusion, winner of the 2010 Best Illusion of the Year contest.

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The sum of all positive integers from one to infinity is... negative one-twelfth.

It's called Analytic Continuation.

Deal with it.

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We Can Stop Now - Part 2

To the dismay of elementary school teachers everywhere:

There is plenty of gravity out where the astronauts are.

The only reason they float is because they are in constant free fall (Read: orbit).

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It's as if sometimes scientists are trying to bring about our own demise.

That may or may not be a good thing.

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Green Fluorescent Protein - Looks suspiciously like a lantern.

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We Can Stop Now - Part 1

Water has an intrinsic blue color.

It is not colorless.

Blue.

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Nikola Tesla in his lab in Colorado Springs.

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Two Questions:

How exactly have viruses not taken over the world?

Does anyone else see the face of agony in the cell?

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Elements 114 and 116 have been recognized by the IUPAC as being legitimate elements and names for the two are now pending.

The proposed names for the two are "Flerovium" for element 114, after the Soviet scientist Georgy Flyorov, and "Moscovium" for element 116 after... well, Moscow.

No. Their permanent names were not "Ununquadium" and "Ununhexium."

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 This could go horribly, horribly wrong.

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Ball Lightning.

It does whatever the hell it wants.

We should strive to be ball lightning.