The electric car revolution was supposed to be inevitable. But over the past six months it’s begun to look shaky. The clearest warning sign isn’t sales figures, it’s what carmakers are doing with their own money: writing off huge losses, …
Quiz of the week: what techniques can be combined to predict the frequency of extreme weather events? – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Source …
Amphibians like toads are often indicator species for their ecosystem because they are vulnerable to changes on both land and water. In this short film, videographer Maxwel Hohn follows the migration of western toad tadpoles in British Columbia, showing their …
A few months ago I decided to try and sort out the two dimensional spacetime case of the Wick rotation issues that have been bothering me for years now. It took me a while to understand what goes on in …
July is Disability Pride Month, so for this month’s Photos of the Month, we are looking at the remarkable life of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin through images from the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. Hodgkin was a Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer, using X-ray …
Physicists have found signs of colliding black holes that are themselves products of previous black hole smash-ups. When a star dies, a black hole is born. This has been the textbook origin story for most black holes. At the end …
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 …