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17/08/2020

The Demo-2 mission came to a successful end after Crew Dragon splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday.

The historic Demo-2 mission made a clean water landing in the Gulf of Mexico and the crew exits the capsule.

15/08/2020

Many Questions Remain and New Ones Are Revealed.

SpaceThe Scientific Question MachineBy Andrea Gawrylewski on July 30, 2020Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditShare on LinkedInShare viaPrint Credit: Scientific American Space & Physics August September 2020Advertisement The title of this issue is a bit misleading. A fully explanatory an...

13/08/2020

Physics and other core science courses form hurdles for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors early in their college careers.

In a preprint paper, researchers propose using AI algorithms to predict which college students are at risk of failing physics classes.

11/08/2020

If I do A, will B happen?

A writer and drag queen explains the connections between gender and subatomic particles.

09/08/2020

There are many ways that the universe could come to an end. Katie Mack's book exploring them is a fascinating read.

There are many ways that the universe could come to an end. Katie Mack's book exploring them is a fascinating read

07/08/2020

Magnetoionic approaches appear particularly promising,

Increasingly impressive demonstrations of voltage-controlled magnetism have been achieved recently, highlighting potential for low-power data processing and storage. Magnetoionic approaches appear particularly promising, electrolytes and ionic conductors being capable of on/off control of ferromagne...

05/08/2020

Magnetic new role possible for a maligned material.

05/08/2020

Control of the time-travel industry from the proletariat.

What if I told you all your favorite time-travel films and books were actually created by big tech in order to wrest control of the time-travel industry from the proletariat? Think about it. Back to the Future, The Terminator, The Time Machine, all of these stories share a central theme where travel...

05/08/2020

The theoretical physicist considers heat death, vacuum decay, and other potential causes of the cosmos’s demise.

In her first book, the theoretical physicist considers heat death, vacuum decay, and other potential causes of the cosmos’s demise.

05/08/2020

Does that mean quantum computing is ready for prime time?

Big tech is working hard to make quantum computing, which is exponentially faster than today’s hardware and software, a reality.

05/08/2020

Barry Simon linked a phenomenon that had shocked physicists to topology, the branch of mathematics that studies shapes.

05/08/2020

The Higgs boson decays into two muons.

At the 40th ICHEP conference, the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced new results which show that the Higgs boson decays into two muons. The muon is a heavier copy of the electron, one of the elementary particles that constitute the matter content of the Universe. While electrons are classified as a...