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Ken Jennings on His New Book of Kennections Quizzes, Jeopardy!, and His Favorite 80s Wrestler
Erin McCarthy
For more than a decade, Ken Jennings has been making even seasoned trivia lovers scratch their heads with his weekly Kennections quiz (appearing right here on Mental Floss). Heres how it works: Jenni ...[Continue Reading]
Mental Floss
2 days ago
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Google Photos perspective correction editing tool has gone missing for some users
Ben Schoon
The Google Photos editing suite is often evolving, but for many users, the perspective correction tool has recently vanished. Available for years at this point, the perspective correction tool in G ...[Continue Reading]
9to5google.com
1 day ago
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Physicists Catch Ghost Particles Bouncing Off Matter in Record-Breaking Experiment
Gayoung Lee
Neutrinos are everywhere. About 100 trillion neutrinos pass through our bodies every second, but theyre so weakly interacting we never notice them. Its this spooky feature of neutrinos that earned th ...[Continue Reading]
Gizmodo.com
1 day ago
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A Rare Flu Complication Is Killing More U.S. Children
Ed Cara
A rare, life-threatening complication caused by the flu seems to be surging among kids. Research out today finds that dozens of children developed influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalopath ...[Continue Reading]
Gizmodo.com
1 day ago
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Collaboration or collapse: Why Earth observation must be a global mission
daisy.dobrijevic@space.com (Daisy Dobrijevic) , Daisy Dobrijevic
Around the world, international borders are hardening. Nations are competing for resources, technology and even orbits. But in Vienna this June, a different vision took center stage. One where space ...[Continue Reading]
Space.com
1 day ago
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LIGO Hanford Observatory in Richland, Washington
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Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes gravitation, predicts the existence of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time triggered by moving masses. However, only under extraordinar ...[Continue Reading]
Atlas Obscura
1 day ago