In June we featured an interview with the author Olivia Campbell about her recent book Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History. In Sisters in Science, Campbell traces the lives and careers of …
Applications open Monday 8th April 2024. It’s once again time for the Cardiff University Physics Summer School ! This extremely popular 3-day non-residential programme is aimed at AS students who are considering pursuing a physics degree. This years free event …
Faculty recognized for the exceptional professional and personal guidance they provide postdocs. Shining a light on the critical role of mentors in a postdoc’s career, the MIT Postdoctoral Association presented the fourth annual Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Awards to professors John Marshall …
📖Read Time: 4 minutes 📊Readability: Fairly Difficult 📐 (Advanced) 🔖Core Topics: itex, scale, relativator, hairline, relativistic The Relativator (revisited) This is an update of my 2006 post (reconstructed in 2014) Relativator: The circular slide-rule for physicists.This is a circular slide-rule …
November 14, 2025• Physics 18, 182 Experiments reveal the surprisingly large amount of entropy—and thus heat—generated by a clock that could be part of a quantum processor. CreativeHub/stock.adobe.com Entropy generator. Any timekeeping device, such as an hourglass, generates heat and …
The 2025 Quantum Leadership Awards were announced at the Quantum World Congress on 18 September 2025. Upon receiving the Academic Pioneer in Quantum Award, John Preskill made these remarks. I’m enormously excited and honored to receive this Quantum Leadership Award, …
We don’t see the effects of quantum physics outside the submicroscopic scale. That’s why your lunchbox can’t be in two places at once and cats aren’t dead and alive at the same time. But why, exactly, is this true? According …
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Fluid dynamics often comes down to a competition between the different forces acting in a flow. Inertia, surface tension, viscosity, gravity, rotation — flows can be affected by all of these and more. In this video, researchers describe the three …
When swimming across bright surroundings, zebrafish get pale over tens of minutes. Researchers now identified which cells in the eye and brain control this background adaption. Credit: MPI for Biological Intelligence / Krasimir Slanchev The ability of some animals to …