When most people hear the word “physics,” they immediately think of dry equations, complex theories, or intimidating textbooks. But what if I told you that physics is actually the story of the universe — a grand narrative that explains everything from why your coffee cools down to how stars are born? In this article, we’re … Read more
Rub a balloon in your hair and balloon usually collects a negative electric load while your hair goes positively. But a new study shows that the load an object collects may depend on its story. The number of times that one object had previously affected another determined whether the object was negatively or positively charged … Read more
Scientists can be wrong about dark energy. But they are eligible for gravity, suggests a new study. Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that makes the expansion of the cosmos accelerate, is widely thought to have had a constant density throughout the history of the universe. But dark energy can be instead, researcher from the spectroscopic … Read more
Notre Dame is back. And so are its acoustics. The Paris Cathedral, which was dramatically burned in a fire in 2019, is reopening the public on December 8. After the fire, the acoustic scholar Brian Katz studied the qualities of the Cathedral’s voice, such as Echoes and Reverbeles created by space, both after restoration and … Read more
Yeardo year, scientists break new ground in their efforts to understand the lives and mysteries of the cosmos. Here are eight milestones in 2024 that attracted our attention. Reading the mind of a fruit fly The first full brain map of a fruit fly details all 139,255 nerve cells and 54.5 million links between them. … Read more
The Scottish tape is great for wrapping gifts – and even for science. With some Scottish tape and little creativity, it is possible to create diamond sheets up to five centimeters wide and as less than a thick micrometer, a team of researchers reports December 18th in Nature. Adhesive materials help release these thin diamond … Read more
A new degraded microbe can soon replace plastic exfoliants in skin cleaners. Polymer spheres effectively remove permanent marker and eyeliner into animal skin samples and divided into molecules similar to sugars and amino acids, researchers report on December 6 The chemical engineering of nature. The beads offer an environmentally friendly alternative to microplastic beads, scientists … Read more
The next time you get caught in the rain, thank your eyelashes for keeping your vision clearly. Experiments with human eyelashes and fibers imitating eyelashes show some traits that help water The advances of science. The outside of a eyelash, or cuticle, acts as a “micro-case”, the researchers report. Water can flow easily from root … Read more
Putting a telescope in space is one thing. Making two of them deep under the sea is a task in a championship of their own. On a boat that bobing in the Mediterranean Sea, physicists – not usually known for their sea feet – bold weekly trips and rough waters, working around the clock to … Read more
A good sweater is like a cozy hug made of thread. For this, you can thank the friction. A new study reveals how knitted fabrics can take versatile shapes that allow them to comply with the contours of a head or body. The effect is the result of rubbing between adjacent fiber buds that make … Read more