physics
Eric Weinstein says that we need to rethink the current scientific model to allow for more dreaming.
Harvard engineers make a breakthrough polarization camera.
When it comes to theories of the universe, the Big Bang theory is almost accepted as a fact. However, it’s still uncertain, and some scientists believe that the universe didn’t began with a bang, but a bounce.
Scientists discover how to predict megaquakes earlier to improve warning systems.
The recent photo of a black hole is something extraordinary. Here’s why.
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Does God exist? The answer rests outside the “normal” boundaries of science.
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Japanese researchers carry out quantum teleportation within a diamond.
Remembering a 1972 symposium gathering of the world’s greatest physicists.
Gigantic explosions of light are reverberating across the universe.
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When you zoom far enough out, our universe has a very unusual structure.
One of Stephen Hawking’s predictions seems to have been borne out in a man-made “black hole.”
Celebrity scientists like Donna Strickland are showing that science & faith co-exist just fine.
New experiments look to the interplay between neutrons and magnetic fields to observe our universal reflection.
Some have suggested that there is no hidden giant out there.
We are hurtling through space. But where are we going?
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Rote memorization doesn’t cut it for theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. Here’s why.
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Intense lightning could have burned us out of the trees.
Black holes may give us a glimpse of the underlying nature of reality.
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The phenomenon that makes our favourite drinks bubbly is, alarmingly, the same one that causes decompression sickness in divers. Why do we still love it?
Don’t start investing in flux capacitors just yet, though.
Few could match the famous physicist in his ability to communicate difficult-to-understand concepts in a simple and warm fashion.
The answer is surprisingly simple, if cataclysmic.
What if all planets were the same distance from Earth as the Moon?
Light exists outside of time.
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Here’s why stars fade out — and so do we.
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The team caught a glimpse of a process that takes 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.
A new method promises to capture an elusive dark world particle.