Augmented reality has become much better in recent years and has found its way into the mainstream market with popular games like Pokémon Go. We love AR because it blends …
Physics
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Augmented reality has become much better in recent years and has found its way into the mainstream market with popular games like Pokémon Go. We love AR because it blends …
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Two years ago, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made headlines with its announcement of the first direct image of a black hole. Science magazine named the image its Breakthrough of …
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Great, now let’s use these same ideas to show why you can’t hug someone while leaning super far back (unless you are on an awesome rotating platform). Actually, just to …
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When most of us picture an atom, we think about a small nucleus made of protons and neutrons orbited … [+] by one or more electrons. We view these electrons …
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Once, holograms were just a scientific curiosity. But thanks to the rapid development of lasers, they have gradually moved center stage, appearing on the security imagery for credit cards and …
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Chien-Shiung Wu, one of the greatest experimental physicists in history, is honored on February 11, … [+] 2021 with the debut of a new forever stamp that bears her likeness. …
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Cosmic rays, which are ultra-high energy particles originating from all over the Universe, strike … [+] protons in the upper atmosphere and produce showers of new particles. The fast-moving charged …
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At the center of the Milky Way lies the biggest object we can be sure exists: a supermassive black hole (SMBH) four million times more massive than the sun. Physicists …
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This data looks nice and linear. That means that the inner and outer planets orbit at a constant rotational rate (which is expected). The angular velocity is defined as the …