Tag: physics and math

A ‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles

The Theory Initiative decided not to include BMW’s value in their official estimate for a few reasons. The data-driven approach has a slightly smaller...

Cells Form Into Living ‘Xenobots’ on Their Own

The potential for cells to find their way to body plans was dramatically illustrated recently with a report that when some sea slugs become...

The Physics of That Spinning Hug in Dua Lipa’s Music Video

Great, now let's use these same ideas to show why you can't hug someone while leaning super far back (unless you are on an...

Ancient Rocks Reveal When Earth’s Plate Tectonics Began

Tusch and Münker developed a powerful new method for extracting tiny traces of tungsten from ancient rocks. Then they went looking for the rocks.First...

How Far Away From Perseverance Did the Descent Stage Land?

Dare Mighty Things. That was the hidden message in the parachute of the Mars Perseverance rover. It's not quite as mighty, but I...

Sleuths Read Old Booby-Trapped Letters Without Opening Them

On July 31, 1697, Jacques Sennacques sent a letter to his cousin—one Pierre Le Pers, a French merchant living in the Hague—begging him, for...

A Decades-Long Quest Reveals New Details of Antimatter

It often goes unmentioned that protons, the positively charged matter particles at the center of atoms, are part antimatter. We learn in school that...

The Mantis Shrimp Inspires a New Material—Made by Bacteria

A good kind of chaotic, as it happens. When the researchers tested the strength of each lattice, the Type IV Bouligand structure absorbed 20...

The Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Be Meaningful After All

At a sleep research symposium in January 2020, Janna Lendner presented findings that hint at a way to look at people’s brain activity for...

Can Hamburger Buns Save Your Pipes from Freezing?

So, imagine this steel container is instead the water line going into your house. (Unless you collect rainwater or make water from hydrogen and...

How to Calculate the String Angle of a Kite vs. a Balloon

What? This looks just like the forces for the balloon? OK, it does look similar—but there is a big difference. For the balloon, there...

Don’t Tell Einstein, but Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’

Identical twins have nothing on black holes. Twins may grow from the same genetic blueprints, but they can differ in a thousand ways—from temperament...

Researchers Levitated a Small Tray Using Nothing but Light

Their simulations estimated that a 6-centimeter plate could carry 10 milligrams of cargo in the mesosphere under natural sunlight. Ten milligrams may not sound...

How This Teeny-Tiny Sea Critter Punches Like Mike Tyson

At less than a quarter-inch long, the amphipod—a crustacean that looks a bit like a shrimp—lives a leisurely life, sifting through algae up and...

How Did They Find the Secret Space Lab in Captain Marvel?

OK, everything's not perfect with a state space plot. Imagine you want to plot the motion of a hidden lab orbiting around the Earth....

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