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A concept known as "wave-particle duality" famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.
Its implications go well beyond the Earth itself, affecting even the future of space travel.
Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
Vanadium dioxide is a strange material that "remembers" information and when it was stored. This is akin to biological memory.
There's the textbook answer, then there's the real answer.
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.
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.
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.