In today’s video I talk about some commonly misunderstood points in the double slit experiment. Source link
Walter, a young African penguin at the New York Aquarium, loves soap bubbles. In fairness to Walter, so do most people I’ve met. There’s just something that feels a bit magical about these ephemeral rainbow spheres that pop at a …
Growing up on a small farm in Nebraska, Megan Donahue ’85 discovered the wider world by reading her way through her local library. Today, she is learning how the wider world works by studying galaxy clusters. A professor of physics …
Mark Wise, the John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics at Caltech, passed away on July 10 at age 72. At a recent memorial service, John Preskill made these remarks. I’m John Preskill, Mark’s colleague on the Caltech physics …
A federal judge in the US has allowed a whistleblower lawsuit to go forward, in which a former official of the National Institutes of Health accuses a Harvard professor of repurposing research grants and falsely claiming he had met his …
Quiz of the week: what makes strange metals so strange? – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Source link
Life in Venice Beach lends itself to wave-watching, or so it seems for photographer Craig Hubbard. His portraits of waves and surfers are ethereal, every swell capped by a cloud-like swath of spray. Somehow, every photographer seems to capture breaking …
Some things that might be of interest: The ICM is starting next week in Philadelphia. One traditional aspect of the ICM is the announcement of the Fields Medal winners. This year there won’t be much surprise, since evidently someone found …
What is marbling? Marbled endpapers in a rare book Allison Rein Those of you who’ve been with us for a while might remember our first post on marbled paper all the way back in 2019, but for those of you …
Assistant Professor Eluned Smith describes how new LHC data confirm a previously observed tension with the Standard Model, plus what else will be needed to determine whether new physics is at play. The Standard Model of particle physics is a …