Physics
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Physics of the perfect cacio e pepe sauce
Terlizzi and his fellow author are all living abroad and frequently meet for dinner. Cacio e pepe is among their…
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The physics of bowling strike after strike
More than 45 million people in the US are fans of bowling, with national competitions awarding millions of dollars. Bowlers…
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Microsoft demonstrates working qubits based on exotic physics
Microsoft’s first entry into quantum hardware comes in the form of Majorana 1, a processor with eight of these qubits.…
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Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games
For his analysis, Barthelemy chose to represent chess as a decision tree in which each “branch” leads to a win,…
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George R.R. Martin has co-authored a physics paper
They also suggest the existence of “cryptos”: Jokers and Aces with mutations that are largely unobservable, such as producing ultraviolet…
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Did Hilma af Klint draw inspiration from 19th century physics?
Making the case Young and af Klint were not contemporaries; Young died in 1829, and af Klint was born in…
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Delve into the physics of the Hula-Hoop
High-speed video of experiments on a robotic hula hooper, whose hourglass form holds the hoop up and in place. Some…
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The physics of ugly Christmas sweaters
In 2018, a team of French physicists developed a rudimentary mathematical model to describe the deformation of a common type…
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