Is ‘vibe physics’ the future? – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Source link
Scientists have long hypothesized that the high electrical charge of thunderstorms could produce an opposite charge in the ground that would discharge from the forest canopy. But this phenomenon, known as a corona, had never been observed on actual trees. …
There’s a new paper out on the Formalization of QFT, purporting to formalize a QFT using Lean/Mathlib. I’ve been trying to avoid spending time on the hot topics of AI and theorem proving, but in this case there’s a lot …
This article was originally posted on August 10, 2018. Some books live their whole lives with only one owner. Many books, however, have at least two, if not many owners, and often physically bear the evidence of the hands they …
The latest crop of space-time wobbles includes a variety of heavy, fast-spinning, and lopsided colliding black holes. When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off ripples, in the form of gravitational waves, that reverberate …
📖Read Time: 15 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: gate, state, program, motors, limit Introduction This project began life in 2017 when the author had just begun experimentation with GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi 3. At that …
Recently, my coworkers and I put out a preprint “Classical solution of the FeMo-cofactor model to chemical accuracy and its implications’’ (Zhai et al. 2026). It is a bit unusual to write commentary on one’s own scientific article. However, in this …
What is space, really? That’s one of the biggest questions in science. According to a pair of researchers from the Perimeter Institute, the answer to that is: a quasicrystal. What is a quasicrystal, and how is space a quasicrystal? Let’s …
Stripes of Enceladus: a jigsaw puzzle – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Source link
When hurricanes hit coasts, they bring with them incredible storm surge, which puts buildings right in the middle of ocean waves. To understand how to better protect against those conditions, engineers use facilities like the Directional Wave Basin to create …