What happens to a balloon when you let go
Photo by Dennis Hallinan / Getty It slipped from her hand on a small street connecting Gordon Square…
Oscar-winning computer scientist on the physics of computer animation – Physics World
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Scientists Just Reversed Time in a Lab, and It Actually Worked
Using a custom-built metamaterial, scientists in New York managed to reverse electromagnetic waves in time, not just direction.…
Scientists Guide Zapata’s Path To Fault-Tolerant Quantum Systems
Zapata Quantum’s Scientific Advisory Board comprises leading researchers and technologists focused on advancing the development of scalable, fault-tolerant…
First-Ever Superkilonova May Have Been Spotted in Bizarre Star Explosion : ScienceAlert
A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which…
Who was Amelia Frank? The life of a forgotten physicist
In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel prize for his work on…
Astronomers may have detected a first-of-its-kind superkilonova
The three stages of a theoretical superkilonova are imagined in this artist’s concept. A rapidly spinning massive star’s…
Scientists bend magnetic fields around real-world objects to create ‘invisibility cloaks’
For nearly 20 years, physicists and engineers have chased the idea of invisibility. Early efforts focused on hiding…
Anything-goes “anyons” may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments | MIT News
In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence…
15-year-old has PhD in physics and plans to “create superhumans”
At 15 years old, Belgian researcher Laurent Simons earned a PhD in quantum physics from the University of…
Scientists Build Device That Generates Electricity From Earth’s Rotation
Physicists from Princeton University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have unveiled a tabletop experiment that appears to draw…
Our Universe Appears Lopsided, And It Could Break Cosmology Entirely : ScienceAlert
The shape of the Universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have…