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Janna Levin: Why I’m Co-Hosting the Joy of Why Podcast | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionWhat a joy — pun intended — to co-host season 3 of The Joy of Why alongside (metaphorically if not physically in space or...
Resource engines
Hanna Wojewódka-Ściążko1,2, Zbigniew Puchała2, and Kamil Korzekwa31Institute of Mathematics, University of Silesia in Katowice, Bankowa 14, 40-007 Katowice, Poland2Institute of Theoretical and Applied...
Magnetic reconnection in space and fusion plasmas: challenges at large and small scales – Physics World
Join the audience for a live webinar at 1 p.m. GMT/8 a.m. EST on 6 February 2024, sponsored by the IOP...
Quantum News Briefs: January 9, 2023: Infleqtion Adds Six Industry Experts to its Board of Directors, Advisory Board, and Leadership Team; Scientists propel “Star...
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry posted 09 Jan 2024 Quantum News Briefs: January 9, 2023:
Infleqtion Adds Six Industry Experts to...
Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionOn December 11, 2021, a beam of gamma rays — the most energetic form of light — slammed into NASA’s Swift satellite. Within 120...
Building Telescopes on the Moon Could Transform Astronomy—and It’s Becoming an Achievable Goal
Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies—and increasingly by commercial companies—are set to visit the moon by...
A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionAlbert Einstein’s general theory of relativity has been wildly successful at describing how gravity works and how it shapes the large-scale structure of the...
A flaming good feeling: why science is nothing without experiments – Physics World
As a mature student with the Open University, Dan Roach rekindles his love of practical experiment ...
Victoria Grinberg: the astrophysicist sharing her love for science – Physics World
Victoria Grinberg, who is the first “liaison scientist” at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands, talks to Hamish Johnston about...
The Quest to Quantify Quantumness | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionIt’s been more than 40 years since the physicist Richard Feynman pointed out that building computing devices based on quantum principles could unlock powers...
Abstracting complexity
Webinar Imagine living inside a celestial chess game where all the stars are pawns and the planets hide in black holes. Oh, and if...
Astrophysicist James Binney bags 2023 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize – Physics World
The astrophysicist James Binney from the University of Oxford has won the 2023 Isaac Newton...