Jan 2, 2025 · Low, meanwhile, was equally fallible, incorrectly suggesting that the whole world would be wearing synthetic felt onesies in 2025. He did, however, predict the invention of online banking while ...

May 24, 2023 · Curie was not only the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, but also the only woman to be awarded prizes in two different fields. In 1896, the French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium ...

Apr 7, 2023 · A seemingly simple but extremely puzzling mirror experiment has gone viral on TikTok and other video platforms. Place a sheet of paper on a mirror and place an object behind it.

Jan 9, 2025 · The laws of physics are generally time-reversal symmetric, roughly meaning that they would look the same if they were played in reverse. This is not true of the second law of thermodynamics, an ...

Nov 29, 2024 · That’s because, as far as we know, electrons are fundamental particles. In other words, they have no smaller components. That’s not something that can be absolutely proven, but it’s ...

Jan 4, 2025 · This week, we revisit some 100-year-old, but spookily accurate, predictions for 2025, the Earthshot Prize has been awarded to an ecosystem restoration project that marks one of the most ...

Nov 16, 2024 · Most of humanity’s energy needs will one day come by harnessing the power of the Sun, but whether that is by replicating it in our own machines, or catching sunlight, remains to be seen.

Dec 17, 2024 · The trip was part of a project called the Final Experiment organized by Will Duffy, a pastor from Colorado who “hopes to end the debate over the shape of the Earth.”

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Oct 30, 2024 · This is why we left the scariest branch of physics til last: thermodynamics. The laws of thermodynamics tell us how energy is transferred (never created nor destroyed) and how entropy tends to ...