
Fun with Gravitational Waves
Even the Earth – sun system radiates gravitational waves, but just how powerful are they?...
Even the Earth – sun system radiates gravitational waves, but just how powerful are they?...
Where in the world did Fermi go?
One lab is using slow motion footage of people sneezing to study the physics of these disease-spreading expulsions. This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on May 31, 2016...
A simple proposal for a way to pursue some answers to the origins of life
Our species just stepped into a cosmic future, yet we still starve and fight each other
Nature Video finds out how to levitate objects using sound waves. Scientists can float objects in mid-air, using just the power of sound. Now, using ultrasonic speakers, they can levitate things with more control than ever before, moving small objects in three dimensions even with the whole array turned upside down...
Early magnetism could have helped create conditions to support life
Astronomers just spotted auroras on a brown dwarf for the first time, but this is just the latest case of known extraterrestrial auroras
Increasing atmospheric carbon from burned fossil fuels will make historic dating more difficult
Exotic subatomic particle confirmed at Large Hadron Collider after earlier false sightings
If we live in a multiverse, then Where Is Everybody Else?
The grandson of the great physicist Niels Bohr describes the scientist’s life and work
A tongue-in-cheek blog post on the best and worst scientific fields to write about reveals a disheartening aversion to physics.
Seventy years ago the renowned astronomer undertook a daring rescue of the renowned physicist as the Red Army swept across a defeated Germany.
It’s back, baby! The Large Hadron Collider sees its first low-energy collisions after restarting. A government laboratory found a way to listen to recordings on fragile wax cylinders inside dolls made by Thomas Edison in 1890...
In my last post Steven Weinberg, one of history’s greatest physicists, answers questions about progress—or the lack thereof—in particle physics, cosmology and politics...
This week, Quanta featured a three-part series on spacetime. Part 1 is by K.C. Cole: Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox. A bold new idea aims to link two famously discordant descriptions of nature...
Here’s a treat for fans of movies and the brain: an article called Strange Continuity. Throughout evolutionary history, we never saw anything like a montage.
In honor of Tax Day in the US, here is a piece on the IRS’s Favorite Mathematical Law: Armed with Benford’s law, “the IRS can sniff out falsified returns just by looking at the first digit of numbers on taxpayers' forms.” So, beware...
Along with black holes, neutron stars are the result of stars collapsing under gravity once their fuel burns out, until their density is about the same as that of the nucleus of an atom, at which point the protons and electrons “melt” into pure neutrons...
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