Science / Physics and Math
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Stephen Hawking Was Wrong—Extremal Black Holes Are Possible
Now two mathematicians have proved Hawking and his colleagues wrong. The new work—contained in a pair of recent papers by Christoph Kehle of the Massachusetts…
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Alien Spaceships Could Be Detected Using Gravitational Waves
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. How much do we really know about what…
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The Biggest Controversy in Cosmology Just Got Bigger
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Nearly a century ago, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe…
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Students Find New Evidence of the Impossibility of Complete Disorder
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In late 2017, Ashwin Sah and Mehtaab Sawhney met as…
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The Quantum Mechanics of the Greenhouse Effect
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1896, the Swedish physicist Svante Arrhenius realized that carbon…
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So You’re Underwater: Why Do You See That Circle of Light Above You?
Have you ever sat on the bottom of a swimming pool and pondered your watery ceiling? Most of the surface…
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Does Jewelry and Big Hair Slow Down Olympic Runners?
To be an Olympic champion, athletes spend years perfecting every aspect of their performance. That same attention to detail goes…
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‘Gem’ of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometimes mathematicians try to tackle a problem head on, and…
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Tuariki Delamere’s Somersault Could Have Launched a New Era in the Olympic Long Jump
Catch it live: The Men’s Long Jump Final at the Paris Olympics will be held on Tuesday, August 6, at…
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The Incredible Physics of Simone Biles’ Yurchenko Double Pike
Gymnastics is an extremely difficult sport, but some people make it look easy. Step forward Simone Biles, who hit a Yurchenko double…
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