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Physicists discovered new properties of the strong force by analyzing what happens when light-speed particles skim by each other. Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The high-energy …

📖Read Time: 15 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: dimension, vector, space, dimensional, dimensions Abstract It took until the last century for physicists and mathematicians in the Netherlands to question the Euclidean concept of dimension as length, …

Recently, Finnish researchers made waves by announcing progress in the field of wireless energy transfer using a combination of sound waves, laser systems, and electromagnetic radiation. While they haven’t miraculously figured out how to beam energy long distances with perfect …

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Uranus is one of our solar system’s oddest inhabitants, stuck spinning on its side with a tilted and offset magnetosphere. To better understand it, a team observed the planet for 17 hours with JWST. The near-infrared measurements gave new insight …

Chemical engineer Paula Hammond, biomedical engineer Anjelica Gonzalez, and physicist Shirley Ann Jackson, describe their best accomplishments in oral history interviews. In celebration of Women’s History Month, I wanted to highlight some of the achievements of Black women in the …

Prof. Nergis Mavalvala, dean of the MIT School of Science, and Prof. Salvatore Vitale join Edgar B. Herwick III of GBH’s Curiosity Desk to discuss the science behind the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and how close we are to unraveling the …

📖Read Time: 7 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: quantum, principle, figure, reference, qm Comment on PBS Space Time video PBS Space Time produces some very good videos on the foundations of quantum mechanics (QM), so let …

It’s happening.  Your inbox registers an email from the chair of a faculty-hiring committee. With trembling fingers, you click on the message. “We were very impressed…we’re delighted to offer…” Months of labor, soul-searching, strain, and anxiety give way to jubilation. …

Earth’s magnetic north pole is changing rapidly. First, it’s moving around quickly (for a geological feature, at least). Second, it seems to be slowly weakening over time, and also a growing number of anomalies have been detected in the Earth’s …