Browsing: Physicists

Enlarge / Many have seen in the swirling vortex a reflection of Vincent van Gogh’s inner conflict. Starry Night.Public domain…

Total solar eclipse in August 2017 over Jefferson City, Missouri(NASA/Rami Daoud) The following is an excerpt from the monthly Launchpad…

What if there was a perfect board game? A combination of board, pieces, and rules – perhaps with some additional…

Because molecules are large and difficult to entangle, they have long resisted physicists’ attempts to coax them into states of…

original version of this story Appeared in Quanta Magazine.To glimpse the unimaginably fast particles of the subatomic world, we must…

Tracing the path of antimatter is a difficult tasksakkmesterke/iStockphoto/Getty Images The first measurements of how these strange particles are affected…

Illustration of Alice’s ring first observedHeika Valya/Aalto University Physicists look through the proverbial mirror, and opposite atoms belong to opposite…

Expanding / Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California used the world’s most powerful laser to fuse the nuclei…

Yoko’s artist impressionARSCIMED/Science Photo Library Protons are more elastic than we thought, according to new measurements. But physicists are divided…

our universe began With a bang that blew everything into existence. But what happened after that is a mystery. Scientists…