Tag: physics

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, ...

There are three ways that objects can have a thermal interaction with other objects. The most common method is through ...

According to assembly theory, before Darwinian evolution can proceed, something has to select for multiple copies of high-AI objects from ...

Physics questions are the most fun when people don't immediately agree on the answer. What feels intuitive or obvious—sometimes isn’t. ...

Graham tried tweaking the CNN approach so that the kernel would only be placed on 3-by-3 sections of the image ...

Since the vehicle is moving up the incline and gravity only pulls straight down, there is a component of this ...

The NANOGrav team was essentially able to turn the Milky Way into a giant gravitational wave detector by measuring the ...

If you want to be a Major League Baseball pitcher, you need to be able to throw a ball really ...