Tag: physics

Dayna Baumeister, codirector of Arizona State University’s Biomimicry Center, isn’t surprised that the paint has so many hidden functions. “It’s ...

Every year, around 1,000 Type Ia supernovas erupt in the sky. These stellar explosions brighten and then fade away in ...

There's your pi. In fact, you can measure the mass, period, and spring constant independently and use this to calculate ...

Physicists have coaxed particles of light into undergoing opposite transformations simultaneously, like a human turning into a werewolf as the ...

Streaming out of the sun at a million miles an hour, the solar wind—a blistering plasma of electrons, protons, and ...

Seth Putterman started out studying the behavior of plasma for national security reasons. Extremely fast hypersonic missiles heat and ionize the ...

Sohl-Dickstein used the principles of diffusion to develop an algorithm for generative modeling. The idea is simple: The algorithm first ...

But let’s be honest: Most people, even in the moderate damage zone, won’t survive. Hardly anyone lives or works in ...

Cosmologists have spent decades striving to understand why our universe is so stunningly vanilla. Not only is it smooth and ...

I'm a sucker for interesting online games that don't have a score or even a goal. In this case, it's ...