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The Fibonacci Numbers Hiding in Strange Spaces

[ad_1] McDuff and Schlenk had been trying to figure out when they could fit a symplectic ellipsoid—an elongated blob—inside a…

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The New Math of Wrinkling Patterns

[ad_1] A few minutes into a 2018 talk at the University of Michigan, Ian Tobasco picked up a large piece…

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Paris-based Aqemia, which aims to scale drug discovery by combining quantum physics algorithms and AI, has raised a €30M Series A (Patricia Allen/EU-Startups)

[ad_1] Patricia Allen / EU-Startups: Paris-based Aqemia, which aims to scale drug discovery by combining quantum physics algorithms and AI,…

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The Physics of Smashing a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid

[ad_1] There are a couple of things to notice. First, after the collision DART is moving backwards, because it bounced.…

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A Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill

[ad_1] In a physics lab in Amsterdam, there’s a wheel that can spontaneously roll uphill by wiggling. This “odd wheel”…

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Could Climate Change Alter the Length of the Day?

[ad_1] Let’s consider an example with an imaginary planet. In this solar system, the planet completes one orbit around its…

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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

[ad_1] Most of the quantum fields that fill our universe have one, and only one, preferred state, in which they’ll…

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Where Do High-Energy Cosmic Rays Come From? A Star’s Last Gasp

[ad_1] Gamma rays from this supernova remnant have been seen by telescopes since 2007, but exceptionally energetic light wasn’t detected…

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What If You Tried to Swallow a Whole Cloud?

[ad_1] As the soup collapsed inward toward the center of the solar system, its molecules would be squeezed closer together…

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At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable

[ad_1] In 1963, the mathematician Roy Kerr found a solution to Einstein’s equations that precisely described the spacetime outside what…

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