A ’70s song titled “I’m Hooked on a Feeling” highlights the fixation on a feeling of love that can even be addictive. This is an example of “emotional inertia”: being susceptible to loops of emotions ...

Fusion startup Inertia Enterprises said it has found a way to cut the time it takes to make its fuel pellets from several days to just minutes. By slashing fuel filling time, Inertia says it has ...

In this video I show how to drop an egg into a glass of water without ever touching it. Using a pie pan, a cardboard tube, and a quick swipe, I demonstrate how inertia keeps the egg still for a moment ...

Most analyses of how to end the war in Ukraine focus on the intentions of one man: Russian President Vladimir Putin. This assumes that the person who single-handedly launched the invasion can also ...

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Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises said on Tuesday that it has signed three agreements with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to help bring the laser-based fusion reactor ...

Jules Verne and H.G. Wells are often credited with creating the science fiction genre, but while both authors had a massive influence on sci-fi, they were actually beaten to the punch by Mary Shelley, ...

Sleep inertia is a common symptom of idiopathic hypersomnia (IH). With sleep inertia, you feel very groggy and out of sorts when you wake up. It usually happens after you’ve been asleep for at least ...

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Science can often surprise you! Meteorologist Ray Petelin has a cool inertia experiment where the result may be the opposite of what you think! One common type of physical activity linked to higher ...