Physics/Space

If I told you that you could be in many different places at once, you would probably laugh aloud and promptly deem me insane. As preposterous as the idea sounds, it is possible in the world of quantum...

Mother: “How many times do I have to tell you to clean your room?” Teen: “I can’t help it. It looks like this because of entropy!” Ah, entropy, the innocent scapegoat of messy rooms and so much...

Where Two Dimensions Don’t Fall Flat The intuitive classification of matter as solid, liquid, or gas, and the transition between these states, is a simple comfort of classical physics. At temperatures far...

The rise of the reusable rocket is ushering in a new era of spaceflight. In the past, rockets were typically single-use and discarded after carrying their payload into space. Rockets consisted of multiple...

It doesn’t take much to get people excited about exoplanets. The idea of a planet orbiting another star is cool enough; bonus points if said planet is inside the star’s habitable zone, where liquid water...

Now synonymous with “genius”, Albert Einstein has turned out to be the gift that keeps on giving. In the early 1900s, Einstein had the incredible intuition and scientific foresight to produce work that...

“Physics has been solved!” many scientists declared upon the announcement that gravitational waves had been detected in February of this year, confirming Einstein’s theory of relativity. However, a new...

Atoms. Tokamaks. The latest Nobel Prize in in Physics. What do all of these have in common? The answer: bagels. No, the answer to life, the universe, and everything isn’t 42 bagels, though...

Our solar system’s sun has been fusing hydrogen into helium in its core at 14 million degrees Celsius for 4.6 billion years and counting. That’s an awfully high bar for Earth-bound nuclear fusion...

The Discovery In the 1980s, the Voyager spacecraft flew past the planet Saturn, sending back images that showed something scientists never expected: a giant hexagon, centered around Saturn’s north pole....