Physics & Chemistry

How, When, and Why Moore’s Law Will Finally Collapse

One day, Moore’s Law will no longer hold true. This rule says computer power doubles every 18 months. But just how will it break down? And when? In the video above, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains that it will fall apart in about a decade, and tells just what might happen. He says that computer…

Physics & Chemistry Leslie Horn

This Explanation of the Multiverse Is a Heavy But Delicious Sunday Brunch

Here’s a TED talk you must watch: Brian Greene explains why there is a multiverse, the theory that we live in one of many different universes. All to answer this question: Why do we humans find ourselves existing in our universe? Watch it. It’s 21 minutes long, but the explanation is absolutely fascinating. [TED via…

Physics & Chemistry Jesus Diaz

Electrons Can Split Into Two

Until now, electrons have been regarded as elementary particles—which means that scientists thought they had no component parts or substructure. But now, electrons have been observed decaying into two separate parts—causing physicists to rethink what they know about the particles. The electrons split into two separate parts, each carrying a particular property of the electron.…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Inside the Office of Albert Einstein

Today is the anniversary of Albert Einstein’s death in 1955. His passing was a huge loss, not just to physics but the entire academy—and, in the hours following his demise, photographer Ralph Morse managed to capture Einstein’s Princeton office, just as he’d left it. It beautifully sums the man up: a remarkably untidy desk, stuffed…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Is There Really a Fourth Dimension? Yes and No

It’s time to spend another lethargic Monday morning wrapping your head around Minute Physics’ latest crash course in science. This time around they explain why trying to name or number the multiple dimensions in our universe is a pointless endeavour. For example, in the emptiness of space there is no reference point to delineate which…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski

Future Internets Will Be Powered by Quantum Particles

Like quantum physics? What about quantum computers? Or quantum computers in a diamond? Then you should know that researchers at the Max Planck Institute have appropriately devised a way to create a quantum network in which a photon is exchanged between two atoms. Future! According to Time, the two atoms transmit the photon over a…

Physics & Chemistry Adrian Covert

How Is This Water Frozen in Time?

What kind of YouTube witchery is this? Four hundred years ago, we’d all be burned for watching this video—the man’s made a stream of water stand completely still in the air. How’d he do it? The answer is timing. Perfect, electronic timing. As the water is run through the tube, it begins vibrating at the…

Physics & Chemistry Sam Biddle

Why We Often Measure Distances In Time

Distances are typically documented using specific measurement terms like inches, feet, and even miles. But when someone asks you how far it is to the mall, you’ll usually respond with a measurement of time instead of an exact number of miles. So in its latest video, Minute Physics explains why we often refer to distances…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski

The One-Minute Explanation of Einstein’s Most Famous Equation: E=mc2

Most of us don’t know much about Einstein. Minutephysics has spent the past month trying to beat a little context into our pea-sized dummy brains beyond, like, E=mc2. But it’s about time we got to learning the big one. So here it is, a quick, concise explanation of the world’s most famous equation, with a…

Physics & Chemistry Kyle Wagner

Physicists Add 11 Colors to the Rainbow By Tearing Apart Atoms

True, the pink is a lie. But a UC Santa Barbara research team has honestly just generated eleven new hues using lasers and ion cascades. https://gizmodo.com/theres-no-such-thing-as-the-color-pink-5850825 The team created the new colors by aiming a pair of lasers—one high-frequency, the other low-frequency—at a slab of semiconductor material, a gallium arsenide nanostructure. The high-frequency beam separates…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Tarantola

Meet CERN’s New Artist in Residence, Julius von Bismarck

Julius von Bismarck is only 28 years old, but his artistic resumé is already several pages long. He’s currently taking time off from school to be the new artist in residence at CERN – the world’s biggest particle physics research facility, home of the Large Hadron Collider. On Wednesday, von Bismarck will deliver a major…

Physics & Chemistry Geeta Dayal-Wired

How Einstein (Sort of) Fixed All of Physics with the Special Theory of Relativity

The Special Theory of Relativity. It’s the most famous thing the most famous physicist ever did, but what makes it so special? Turns out, it helped prove that we could, uhh, move. Seriously. Here’s the latest in MinutePhysics’ crusade to educate the stupid, stupid world about Einstein. [MinutePhysics]

Physics & Chemistry Kyle Wagner

Scientists Manipulate Electrons Into Material Never Seen on Earth

Stanford scientists have created designer electrons that behave as if they were exposed to a magnetic field of 60 Tesla—a force 30 percent stronger than anything ever sustained on Earth. The work could lead to a revolution in the materials that make everything from video displays to airplanes to mobile phones. “The behavior of electrons…

Physics & Chemistry Kristen Philipkoski

The First-Ever Images of Atoms Moving Inside a Molecule

Ohio State University researchers have captured the first-ever images of atoms moving within a molecule using a novel technique that turns one of the molecules own electrons into a kind of flash bulb. The technique has yielded a new way of imaging molecules, but could one day help scientists to intimately control chemical reactions at…

Physics & Chemistry Clay Dillow-popular science

Scientists Create 230-Percent Efficient LED Bulbs

Light bulbs have always required more electricity than they need to produce light because the energy conversion process—changing electricity to light—was inefficient. But an MIT research team has just shown that an LED can actually give off more light than what it consumes in electricity. Incandescent bulbs are the poster child of inefficient energy conversion.…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Tarantola

What Exactly Is a Year and How Is It Measured?

We all know that February 29th only exists every four years, but do you know what exactly a year is? Or how we came to that measurement? Minute Phsyics does, and they’re happy to enlighten you in their latest video. The scientific explanation of a year is how long “it takes for one physical body…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski

A Crash Course In Matter

Minute Physics has undertaken the daunting task of explaining the Theory of Everything. But not surprisingly, it’s going to take more than just a couple of minutes. So they’ve broken it down into smaller chunks, starting with an explanation of matter. In laymen’s terms, matter is “everything that takes up space”, but that explanation is…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski

Ridiculous: A Loose Cable Caused Those ‘Faster-Than-Light’ Particles

We know that Einstein always has the last laugh, but this is hilarious: the faster-than-light particles that could have wrecked his relativity theory are no more. It was a mistake in the test results caused by a loose cable. https://gizmodo.com/faster-than-light-particles-could-wreck-einsteins-relat-5843006 Didn’t anyone from the Genius Bar tell them about the first rule of tech support?…

Physics & Chemistry Jesus Diaz

Today’s Transfixing Google Doodle Celebrates the Magic of Waves

Blame Google if you find yourself staring at your screen, unable to remember what you were about to search for on the Internet. Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 155th birthday of German physicist Heinrich Hertz whose experiments with electromagnetic waves paved the way for the radio—and everything wireless you’ve ever used. Now that’s a Google…

Physics & Chemistry Mario Aguilar

Real Scientifical Gangstas Build Their Own Atomic Clocks

Seriously? You care enough about temporal accuracy buy an atomic clock but you don’t know how to build one? We won’t tell.Thankfully DIY Physics has a great tutorial on how to build your own with parts from eBay. The core of the makeshift atomic clock is an Efratom Model M-100 Rubidium Frequency Standard oscillator originally…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski

How, When, and Why Moore’s Law Will Finally Collapse

This Explanation of the Multiverse Is a Heavy But Delicious Sunday Brunch

Electrons Can Split Into Two

Inside the Office of Albert Einstein

Is There Really a Fourth Dimension? Yes and No

Future Internets Will Be Powered by Quantum Particles

How Is This Water Frozen in Time?

Why We Often Measure Distances In Time

The One-Minute Explanation of Einstein’s Most Famous Equation: E=mc2

Physicists Add 11 Colors to the Rainbow By Tearing Apart Atoms

Meet CERN’s New Artist in Residence, Julius von Bismarck

How Einstein (Sort of) Fixed All of Physics with the Special Theory of Relativity

Scientists Manipulate Electrons Into Material Never Seen on Earth

The First-Ever Images of Atoms Moving Inside a Molecule

Scientists Create 230-Percent Efficient LED Bulbs

What Exactly Is a Year and How Is It Measured?

A Crash Course In Matter

Ridiculous: A Loose Cable Caused Those ‘Faster-Than-Light’ Particles

Today’s Transfixing Google Doodle Celebrates the Magic of Waves

Real Scientifical Gangstas Build Their Own Atomic Clocks

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