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Shutterstock/Creative Touch A century ago, it was possible for a physicist to know almost everything there is to know about physics. Now, however, that is not…

Now, two mathematicians have proven Hawking and his team wrong. This new research, contained in two recent papers by Dr. Christoph Kähle of the Massachusetts Institute…

You could say that this is exactly what Isaac Newton’s diagram of gravity does – show the relationship between the mass of an object and the…

Ryan Wills, adboestock/Getty Images As one of the founders of arguably the most successful scientific idea, quantum theory, you’d expect Niels Bohr to be interested in…

We’re getting closer to understanding how liquids behave inside planets like VenusArtsiom P/Shutterstock To understand how fluids behave under extreme conditions, such as those found inside…

Have you ever sat at the bottom of a swimming pool and thought about the ceiling covered in water? Most of the surface is light blue…

Have you ever sat at the bottom of a swimming pool and thought about the ceiling covered in water? Most of the surface is light blue…

Original version of This story Appearance Quanta Magazine.Vacuum decay is a process that could end the universe as we know it, and it could happen 10,000…

Original version of This story Appearance Quanta Magazine.Vacuum decay is a process that could end the universe as we know it, and it could happen 10,000…

After 30 days, the algae in the middle was still single-celled. But as the scientists examined algae from thicker and thicker rings under a microscope, they…