The Cosmic Microwave Background as seen by Planck. Image credit: ESA/Planck Chris North and Edward Gomez discuss the first attempt to launch a rocket from UK soil, albeit via a piggyback on (or under) a plane. There’s also an interesting …
MIT physicists say these quasiparticles may explain how superconductivity and magnetism can coexist in certain materials. In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism. Scientists had …
📖Read Time: 13 minutes 📊Readability: Easy (6th-7th grade) 🔖Core Topics: proof, theorem, case, numbers, number Abstract Fermat’s Last Theorem has long been one of the most famous mathematical problems, and is now one of the most famous theorems. It simply …
AI promises to revolutionize the way we do science, which raises a central technological question of our time: Can classical AI understand all natural phenomena, or are some fundamentally beyond its reach? Many proponents of artificial intelligence argue that any …
When electricity first emerged as a technology, Edison and Tesla clashed in the “war of currents,” arguing over whether alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC) should be the global standard of electricity. While AC won that battle, it’s become …
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There are many shapes that can be tiled to fill space, but nearly all of them have sharp corners. Last year, mathematicians identified a new class of shapes, known as “soft cells,” that feature curved edges and faces but very …
Brian Greene has a new video out today, of himself talking to Edward Witten, mainly about string theory. Pretty much the usual decades-old hype, with nothing even slightly different than what a similar conversation would have consisted of 20 years …
Physicist George Smoot told a packed press conference in 1992, “If you’re religious, it’s like seeing God.” He was referring to the cosmic microwave background, which he and colleague John Mather imaged with NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), marking the …
As announced in October’s blog post, several volumes from the Wenner Collection are now available online in our digital repository . In Part 1, we looked at texts popularizing natural philosophy to the general public. In Part 2, we are …