No one has ever been sure of exactly how many people attended the Love Parade music festival in Duisburg, Germany on July 24, 2010. The original estimate was 800,000; police later revised that ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 stands as one of the most devastating accidents in history. This video breaks down the physics behind the catastrophic meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...

Here’s a straightforward question. Imagine you are throwing a ball into a bin. Are you better off using an overarm or an underarm throw? It turns out that this question has been surprisingly ...

Human errors caused by a lack of standardised procedures and insufficient training are the major drivers behind loss in food manufacturing, a new study has found. Researchers at Brunel University ...

Albert Einstein, in modern physics,” Robert L ... operators tend to be the inheritors of system defects,” he wrote in “Human Error” (1990). “Their part is that of adding the final ...

The romance of near-light-speed travel, so picturesquely idealized in science fiction, runs into the brutal realities of physics and human physiology. The speed of light, about 299,792,458 meters ...

Elon Musk yesterday took part in some April Fool’s Day shenanigans despite one of his companies having an absolutely awful week. Showing a brave face, the tech mogul teasingly tweeted Tesla was ...

At the end of the day, the signal probably comes down to a human error, he says. “It’s not a bad idea to look for a signal, it’s just that they didn’t do their homework,” says Plavchan.

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