All posts tagged "Physics"
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84PhysicsHow Amateur Video Is Helping Us Understand Deadly Tsunamis
In 2004, when a tsunami devastated communities in southern Asia, videos shot by tourists and locals became a new tool for analyzing...
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85PhysicsBell’s theorem for temporal order
Abstract Time has a fundamentally different character in quantum mechanics and in general relativity. In quantum theory events unfold in a fixed...
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93Physics2019 Dirac Medal Announced
Three share prize for important contributions to modern cosmology ICTP has awarded its 2019 Dirac Medal and Prize to three physicists whose...
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132PhysicsAstronomers find evidence for ‘direct collapse’ black hole
Astronomers have discovered evidence for an unusual kind of black hole born extremely early in the universe. They showed that a recently...
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135PhysicsIt’s Official: NASA Is Opening The International Space Station to Tourists
NASA just announced that it will officially allow regular citizens – not just certified astronauts – on board the International Space Station, as well...
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125PhysicsRichter magnitude scale and energy equivalents in terms of TNT explosive force
The following table lists the approximate energy equivalents in terms of TNT explosive force – though note that the earthquake energy is...
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160PhysicsNobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann dead at 89
Murray Gell-Mann, a physicist who theorized the existence of the quark and won a Nobel Prize for his method of classifying particles,...
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159PhysicsThe Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined
The sun radiates far more high-frequency light than expected, raising questions about unknown features of the sun’s magnetic field and the possibility...
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215Physics‘We’ve now seen the unseeable’: Black hole photographed for 1st time
Black holes have been mysterious and elusive — until now. Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have, for the first time, photographed one. “We’ve now seen the...
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244PhysicsTwo unusual galaxies shake up the dark matter debate, again
WHEN IT COMES to the nature of dark matter, astronomers are still largely, well, in the dark. The existence of this mysterious substance was...