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SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?
Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.
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Debates about the existence of free will traditionally have been fought by two competing camps: those who believe in free will and those who don’t because they believe the Universe […]
There are at least 15 different types of solid water (ice). Now, scientists believe that there might be a second type of liquid water.
Your mentors made time for you. Now, go and make time for others.
Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.
The stars circle each other every 51 minutes, confirming a decades-old prediction.
Early relics and late-time objects give incompatible results for the expanding Universe. This independent anomaly intensifies the problem.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so... solid?
"Even with my training, I still got insights from the book’s descriptions. That’s how good Carroll is at explaining physics."
Holograms preserve all of an object's 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
Sooner or later, Earth is going to be hit by a large enough space object to cause significant damage to humanity. Stopping them isn't easy.
An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.
In our common experience, you can't get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.
The concept is so complex that scientists still argue whether it exists or if it is an illusion.
John Templeton Foundation
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
Einstein's "happiest thought" led to General Relativity's formulation. Would a different profound insight have led us forever astray?
If you want a medication to kick in faster, lean right.
At their cores, stars can reach many millions or even billions of degrees. But even that doesn't touch the hottest of all.
The key problem with the dark matter hypothesis is that nobody knows what form dark matter might take.
What we call "basic research" is actually the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.
The surface of asteroid Bennu is more like a plastic ball pit than the Moon.
Lasers are all around you. This ubiquitous technology came from our understanding of quantum physics.
Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here's why that's an extraordinary feat.
We live in a four-dimensional Universe, where matter and energy curve the fabric of spacetime. But time sure is different from space!
There's a speed limit to the Universe: the speed of light in a vacuum. Want to beat the speed of light? Try going through a medium!
The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.
Scientists have found three new examples of a very exotic form of matter made of quarks. They can yield insights into the early Universe.