'Check your ingredients': A new blueprint for using Fermi's 'Golden Rule'

Underpinning much of modern technology, from smartphones to scanning tunneling microscopes to particle colliders, is Fermi's ...
The Scientist

How Super-Resolution Microscopy Came into Focus

From overcoming classical optical limits to tracking single proteins in real time, super-resolution imaging continues to ...

You don’t need a Switch to play Mario Kart. This YouTube video somehow lets you join the race.

A wildly creative YouTube experiment lets you steer through Rainbow Road and swap Mario Kart characters by changing the video’s caption language.
Heavy.com

Carson Hocevar Reveals How He Would’ve Celebrated San Diego Win

Carson Hocevar opened up about the celebration he had planned if he won Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at San Diego. The driver of the No. 77 was in contention for the victory before he was spun out ...
Nature

Making samples one billion times bigger lets simple microscopes pinpoint amino acids

A technique that supersizes cells to reveal minute details has gone big — really big. Using a polymer similar to those used in nappies to make them super-absorbent, scientists have expanded the volume ...
Nevada Appeal

Carson deputies use Taser, patrol units and pepper spray to subdue Californian

A 45-year-old California man was arrested around 2 p.m. Friday following a vehicle chase with a Carson City Sheriff’s deputy. According to a sheriff’s report, Christian Chapman Hellwig, who uses an ...