physics

Did the Chicken Come First or Is It Turtles All the Way Down?

7 February 2020 0

ift.tt/2vRMIz7 When you consider the origin of life, the origin of the universe, or any other origin story, one question inevitably rears its ugly head: What caused the beginning? This apparent paradox has vexed humanity for millennia. It’s responsible for…

What’s The Hottest Hot and Coldest Cold?

13 June 2018 0

ift.tt/2HIKRgx Want more cool physics? Check out Physics Girl! youtube.com/physicsgirl Be cool and SUBSCRIBE! ►► bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ The hottest and coldest temperatures in our universe are rarely witnessed, but in these rare spots, our…

Smallest sliver of time yet measured sees electrons fleeing atom

15 November 2016 0

When light strikes electrons, they get excited and can break…

Massive Crack in Earth’s Magnetic Shield Discovered

7 November 2016 0

—- Massive Crack in Earth’s Magnetic Shield Discovered // Mysterious…

Why Does it Rain?

2 November 2016 0

ift.tt/2f7AVD3 Many people love to ask, why does it always…

A Solar Powered Socket… For The Window

1 November 2016 0

ift.tt/2fwZEkR We’re now a little closer to plugging our devices…

Physicists make it possible to 3D print your own baby universe

30 October 2016 0

Researchers have created a 3D printed cosmic microwave background —…

Tangled Up in Spacetime

26 October 2016 0

ift.tt/2ffbzUf “All the world’s a stage…,” Shakespeare wrote, and physicists…

Argonne researchers posit way to locally circumvent Second Law of Thermodynamics where entropy always increases

21 October 2016 0

ift.tt/2dEnw3T For more than a century and a half of…

Flood Death Valley

20 October 2016 0

ift.tt/2e3ef60 Flood Death Valley Since Death Valley is below sea…

My Time with Richard Feynman

13 July 2016 0

ift.tt/29xT1gt My Time with Richard Feynman “You and I are very lucky,” he said to me once. “Because whatever else is going on, we’ve always got our physics.” Richard Feynman and Stephen Wolfram Transcribed from a talk given at the…

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 9th)

9 July 2016 0

ift.tt/1Q4FkEi ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Exclusive: Why Microsoft Is Betting Its Future on AI Casey Newton | The Verge "Microsoft’s historical instincts about where technology is going have been spot-on. But the company has a record of dropping the ball when it comes to…

What is Time Dilation?

7 July 2016 0

One of the most interesting topics in the field of science is the concept of General Relativity. You know, this idea that strange things happen as you near the speed of light. There are strange changes to the length of…

Physics and caffeine

6 July 2016 0

Coffee might seem like a simple pleasure, but it’s taken centuries of scientific theory and experimentation to begin to understand the physical mysteries contained in a single cup – and scientists are still working out the details. A collaboration between…

Scientists model universe using Einstein’s full theory

28 June 2016 0

Cosmologists have begun modelling the universe for the first time using Einstein’s full general theory of relativity. via ScienceDaily: Space & Time News ift.tt/1pSTeNJ

A Gold-Leaf Brain Lights Up With the Awesome Complexity of Neurons

25 June 2016 0

Ready to get really really meta? A new installation at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, open June 25, displays what happens in your brain—while you’re looking at it. The project comes from Greg Dunn and Brian Edwards, a neuroscientist and a physicist…