physics
31/10/2023 - 13:34
For years, physicists have been scrambling to discover their differences and similarities, to explain how the Universe arose. Discovering... →
18/12/2022 - 14:20
Physicists have since the 1950s sought to harness the fusion reaction that powers the sun, but no group had been able to produce more... →
21/07/2022 - 14:02
The Israeli national team won three gold medals this week at the International Science Olympiad. The participants, from ninth to twelfth... →
24/05/2021 - 13:25
Sakharov was born in Moscow on May 21, 1921, into a family that was firmly established as part of the city's intelligentsia. Like much of... →
17/02/2020 - 13:49
Where do you buy a computer like that? You don’t. Google’s Sycamore can’t run Word or Chrome, it can’t even run a nice friendly game of... →
06/02/2020 - 16:15
Dark matter is the elusive stuff in the Universe that interacts through gravity like ordinary matter, but doesn’t emit or absorb light.... →
15/06/2019 - 12:42
Before Hawking’s talk, all cosmological origin stories, scientific or theological, had invited the rejoinder, “What happened before that?”... →
08/12/2018 - 19:20
If we don't, the future looks decidedly bleak for millions of people on this planet: water and food shortages leading to famine and war.... →
19/11/2017 - 16:25
Curie’s accomplishments included the development of the theory of radioactivity, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the... →
24/05/2017 - 13:33
That moment was the culmination of over a decade and a half of bi-annual meetings between scientists from countries that don’t often get... →
02/10/2016 - 12:28
Time in Classical and Quantum Mechanics
In classical physics, time is absolute and invariable. All clocks tick at the same rate and... →
04/04/2016 - 13:11
Progress in the theory of computation suggests that sentience and intelligence likely require quadrillions of primitive “circuit” elements... →