Did you know you've been cooking your food with light? Most of us have a microwave oven in our kitchens, and that's exactly what they do. When you press start, a device called a magnetron emits a ...

Take part in the BBC Look East experiment to calculate the speed of light in your kitchen using a plate of bread and margarine and the help of Chris Smith from the Naked Scientists. BBC Look East is ...

When your Peeps have gone stale, it's time to donate their marshmallow bodies to science — specifically, for measuring the speed of light. From time to time, NPR's science desk creates videos that ...

In the week after Easter, we had a lot of old Peeps lying around. No one seemed that interested in eating them, so we used them to measure the speed of light. For centuries the speed of light was an ...

The speed of light is a fundamental constant, approximately 299,792,458 meters per second. It's the same for all observers and hasn't changed measurably over billions of years. Nothing can travel ...

If the Sun were to spontaneously cease emitting light, we wouldn't know about it for about 8 minutes and 20 seconds. The light that's arriving here on Earth, right at this very moment, was emitted ...

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Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Back in 2018, astronomers examining the ruins of two collided ...