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Microscopic Movements Force MRI Patients to Wear Earplugs!

Tiny movements, huge forces, terrible bedside acoustics. The scanner’s deafening racket comes from microscopic mechanical motion inside a powerful magnetic field. The scanner insists the banging is a normal part of spatial encoding.

Physics

Throwback Thursday

Shoe Salesmen Deploy X-Rays to Close the Deal!

Bones revealed. Shoes sold. Exposure limits remain awkwardly under discussion. Retail innovation later found to involve unnecessary ionizing radiation.

Physics

Time Runs Differently in Space! GPS Engineers Annoyed.

GPS satellites experience two opposing relativistic effects, and navigation depends on correcting both. Speed slows satellite clocks down. Weaker gravity speeds them up. Somehow your phone still finds the gas station.