Tag: physics

A few years ago, the researchers decided to put a superconducting metal called strontium ruthenate in their crosshairs. Its structure ...

She was also worried about the strong personalities she’d have to deal with in aerospace. “I was always scared something ...

That was a surprise—and a possible indication that something crucial was missing in those models: magnetism.Stellar SymmetryLast year, Gang Li, ...

Not only do I get the "shape" of the acceleration curve for the colliding cart, but I also get a ...

There's some cool stuff going on here. Notice that for the objects with air resistance, they all reach incredibly high ...

Naaman and his team discovered that chiral molecules filter electrons based on the direction of their spin. Electrons with one ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.To catch a glimpse of the subatomic world’s unimaginably fleet-footed particles, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 1917, the Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed what at first ...

For many of the sources you encounter in everyday life, the amount of radiation is so low that you don’t ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Of the 100 trillion neutrinos that pass through you every second, ...