Physics
Here’s how ice may get so slippery
Ice’s weirdly slick exterior might originate from the boundaries between two different types of ice that form on the surface of frozen water.
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Ice’s weirdly slick exterior might originate from the boundaries between two different types of ice that form on the surface of frozen water.
Ultrathin goldene sheets could reduce the amount of gold needed for electronics and certain chemical reactions.
The newly discovered type of magnetic material could improve existing tech, including making better and faster hard drives.
Real science underpins much of the action in the show — along with a hefty dose of artistic liberty.
By tweaking the energy of a thorium nucleus with a laser, scientists demonstrated a key step to building clocks based on the physics of atomic nuclei.
As a solar eclipse approaches totality and our eyes adjust to dimming light, our color vision changes. It’s called the Purkinje effect.
No bigger than a grain of rice, the heart of the instrument is the latest entrant in the quest to build ever tinier gravity-measuring devices.
The acoustic qualities of instruments may have influenced variations in musical scales and preferred harmonies.
Superconducting temperatures have risen by about 250 degrees since the 1970s, but are still too cold to enable practical technologies.
Trees could act as antennas that pick up radio waves of ultra-high energy neutrinos interactions, one physicist proposes.
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