Could human teleportation ever become a reality, physicists explain
Researchers imagine a reconstruction station like a 3D printer with big bottles of every necessary chemical element that puts you together.
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JJ Shavit
- Mar 5, 2022
Is Usain Bolt faster than a 900-pound dinosaur?
One big issue in physics education is to generate student enthusiasm for the course material. These dinosaur problems really spark interest.
JJ Shavit
- Mar 4, 2022
Wind-powered car appears to defy physics
Intriguing thing about Blackbird is that it runs faster than wind speed when travelling downwind.
JJ Shavit
- Feb 8, 2022
Researchers demonstrate 'self-healing' ice -- Zamboni's need not apply
Scientists from the Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute in Amsterdam have shown that ice, when left alone for long enough, can heal itself.
JJ Shavit
- Jan 22, 2022
Using ice to boil water: Researcher makes heat transfer discovery
New discovery about the properties of water that could provide an exciting addendum to a phenomenon established over two centuries ago.
JJ Shavit
- Dec 15, 2021
What is quantum entanglement and why do physicists want to harness it
“Quantum entanglement” is one of several plot devices that appear in modern science fiction movies. But the term isn’t just a buzzword.
JJ Shavit
- Dec 14, 2021
16-year long experiment challenges Einstein’s theory of general relativity
Researchers have helped conduct a 16-year long experiment to challenge Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Joshua Shavit
- Oct 2, 2021
This is what it looks like when a black hole snacks on a star
While black holes and toddlers don't seem to have much in common, they are remarkably similar in one aspect: Both are messy eaters.
JJ Shavit
- Sep 16, 2021
Have we detected dark energy? Scientists say it's a possibility
Unexplained results from the XENON1T experiment may have been caused by dark energy, and not the dark matter the experiment tried to detect.
JJ Shavit
- Sep 5, 2021
Unified theory finally explains how materials transform from solids to liquids
Years of meticulous experimentation have paid off for researchers aiming to unify the physics that defines transition from solid to liquid.
Joshua Shavit
- Aug 11, 2021
Exotic matter is in our sights
Physicists have created a new way to probe exotic matter in order to form a better understanding of the material universe.
JJ Shavit
- Jul 30, 2021
A wind-powered car that appears to defy physics wins Youtuber $10K bet
The intriguing thing about Blackbird is that it runs faster than wind speed when travelling downwind.
JJ Shavit
- Jul 29, 2021
First detection of light from behind a black hole proves Einstein right
Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away
JJ Shavit
- Jul 2, 2021
Scientists detect gravitational waves for first time from black holes swallowing neutron stars
For the first time, scientists detected gravitational waves caused by mergers between black holes and neutron stars.
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