Enlarge / Large flock of jackdaws in silhouette flying in the evening sky over the trees. (credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus) There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science […]
There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2020, each day from December 25 through January 5. Today: experiments in synchronization in a […]
Enlarge / A housewife proudly presents her indispensable Pyrex kitchenware (1955). Ainissa Ramirez tells the story of its invention, and how it molded human behavior in turn, in her book, The Alchemy of Us. (credit: Chaloner Woods/Getty Images) There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, […]
Enlarge / A reconstruction of the cosmic web— a vast network of filamentary structures of matter spanning the universe—modeled on the growth patterns of slime mold. (credit: Joseph N. Burchett et al./AJL) There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re once again running a special […]
Enlarge / In 1953, the eminent physicist and H-bomb advocate took an ill-fated overnight train from Philadelphia to Washington, DC, that would indirectly lead to the Robert Oppenheimer security hearing. (credit: Michail_Petrov-96/iStock/Getty Images) In the popular science world, physicist John Wheeler is probably best known for popularizing the term “black hole,” although his research spanned […]
Enlarge / Danish explorer Jørgen Brønlund’s petroleum burner was found in 1973. Brønlund and two compatriots died in 1907 during an expedition to Greenland. (credit: Jørn Ladegaard) Over 100 years ago, a Danish explorer named Jørgen Brønlund perished during an expedition to northeast Greenland, along with two members of his expedition. He left behind a […]
Expand / A participant from Amazon, Aleksander Kubica, won the world’s first quantum boxing tournament, throughout a week’s virtual Q2B seminar on quantum computing. (charge: lucadp/Getty Images) We wish to see Beth choose challengers at a quantum boxing tournament. The world’s very first such tournament has been held December 9 within this digital Q2B convention […]
A little U.K. startup has created an algorithm which greatly lowers the degree of calculating power required to run a metric which may pave the way for creation of new materials. Researchers from the business, Phasecraft, together with researchers in the University of Bristol, revealed {} issue from quantum physics– even just one that’s too […]
Expand / / The key to a secure sandcastle chiefly lies in the perfect ratio of water. The forces in play are explained by the”Kelvin equation,” initially declared in 1871. (charge: ac productions/Getty Pictures ) Building sandcastles in the beach is really a time-honored convention across the globe, raised into a art kind in recent […]
Expand / / One approach to gauge the cost radius of a proton would be to bounce it off (proton-sized clamp is just accessible via apology ). (charge: Jefferson Lab) How large is that a proton? This does not sound like an extremely complex issue, but it is one which turned out to possess the […]