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Tag: Physics
Mathematicians solve old mystery about spaghetti breaking
Here's a question you never knew you wanted to answer.
Why a spinning hard-boiled egg always faces up
Try it at home.
Scientists design $100 muon detector
It's a unique chance to do some top notch science from the comfort of your own home.
Why wheelie suitcases wobble out of control and what you can do to stop them
Ah, wheeled luggage -- a necessary evil.
Why clouds don’t fall
They never fall but they pour.
World’s tiniest race will pit nanocars against each other in Toulouse this April
The stakes have never been so tiny.
NASA wants to create the coolest spot in the universe
It's cool, and it's totally out there!
Czech researchers turn graphene sheets into the first stable non-metallic magnets
Is there anything graphene can't do?
Light-bending material could bridge quantum and classical physics
We're closer than ever to a Theory of Everything.
In 1975, a physicist co-authored a paper with his cat. He did it for a very good reason
F.D.C. Willard, also known as Chester, is a cat who co-authored a high-quality physics paper in 1975
Squished-booms: looking at the behavior of underwater explosions
Explosions behave quite differently underwater than what you'd see on the surface.
The 2016 Nobel Prize in physics awarded to trio of topological experts
Bagel physics begets a prize.
Physicists think they might have found a dark boson — a dark matter particle
It could be the key to understanding dark matter.
New measurement of a proton leaves us with more questions than answers
We just can't seem to determine exactly how tiny they are.
The LHC is back – and it’s stronger than ever
After the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a 2 year hiatus to up its power, it's finally back, and it's ...
Richard Feynman’s Lectures on Physics released for free online
Feynman was at times called "The Great Explainer" because of his skill at making complex subjects accessible to students, and ...
The history of physics in a short, neat animation
Physics is a branch of science that interestingly enough developed out of philosophy, and was thus referred to as natural ...
Richard Feynman explains the scientific method in 10 miuntes
Richard Feynman is one of the most known and loved physicists to ever walk the face of the planet. He ...
New, great open-access deal for particle physics
Fantastic news for physics lovers: pretty much all particle physics articles will now be open-source, thanks to a deal between ...
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