Tag: Physics
70 years of instant photos, thanks to inventor Edwin Land’s Polaroid...
Ann Elsner, Indiana University
It probably happens every minute of the day: A little girl demands to see the photo her parent has just taken...
The math behind the perfect free throw
Larry M. Silverberg, North Carolina State University
Some 20 years ago, my colleague Dr. Chau Tran and I developed a way to simulate the trajectories...
Black holes aren’t totally black, and other insights from Stephen Hawking’s...
Christoph Adami, Michigan State University
Mathematical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking was best known for his work exploring the relationship between black holes and quantum...
Dark matter: The mystery substance physics still can’t identify that makes...
Dan Hooper, University of Chicago
The past few decades have ushered in an amazing era in the science of cosmology. A diverse array of high-precision...
LIGO announcement vaults astronomy out of its silent movie era into...
Chad Hanna, Pennsylvania State University
When LIGO detected its first gravitational wave back in September 2015, I was pretty excited to say the least. As...
The journey to the other side of absolute zero
By Tapio Simula, Monash University
Absolute zero is the temperature (-273.15C) at which all motion in matter stops and is thought to be unreachable. But...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
