Recently, a pair of researchers made a massive breakthrough in the foundations of physics. In their paper, they describe how gravity is an emergent property. More specifically, they say that the origin of gravity is entropy. And not just any …
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Though we rarely notice their movement in the moment, plants, and especially their flowers, are frequently on the move. Here, retired engineer Jay McClellan captures a thymeleaf speedwell flower as it opens, then pushes a stamen toward its pistil, thereby …
The big AI/math news is the release today of the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. It’s an excellent attempt to identify the new threats to the intellectual culture of the mathematics community and begin a discussion of what …
Dava Sobel (center) with AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives staff in front of the book display. [L-R: Corinne Mona, Melaine Mueller, Allison Rein, Karina Cooper] Will Thomas At the end of May, noted history of science author Dava Sobel …
Wyslouch remains the director of the Bates Research and Engineering Center and will continue research on heavy ion collisions. After more than 10 years at the helm of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS), Boleslaw “Bolek” Wyslouch will step down …
📖Read Time: 22 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: seriesfunctionsfunctionnumbersvalue Introduction Series play a decisive role in many branches of mathematics. They accompanied mathematical developments from Zeno of Elea (##5##-th century BC) and Archimedes of Syracuse (##3##-th …
A scientist in Florence can’t avoid bumping into colleagues. When visiting the Renaissance’s birthplace last summer, I ran into a fellow physicist even on a Saturday morning. I was wandering around the Uffizi Gallery, a museum blessed with some of …
Since the early days of quantum physics, some scientists have believed that there’s a link between quantum mechanics and consciousness. While most researchers don’t think this idea holds water, a few have published papers about how phosphate molecules in the …
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