Imagine a juggler tossing balls into the air. The art of juggling is a dance between motion and pause, where the ball’s speed ...
A new theory suggests that gravity could possibly be the result of entropy. If true, this would mean that everything in the ...
At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible. The ...
A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone ...
Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot principle, the second law of thermodynamics, was developed for large, ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...
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There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin gravitational wave detectors (one in Hanford, Washington, and the ...
A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...
What do large crowds of people and water have in common? They both act like fluids. A clear example of the fluid dynamics at play in crowds is the masses at the San Fermín Festival in Pamplona, Spain.