Solve this *Captain America* physics puzzle.
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It has been a while since I wrote about quantum key distribution. Once a technology is commercially available, my interest starts to fade. But commercial availability in this case hasn't meant widespread use....
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Interactions with water dominate how drug molecules bind to targets, but it's tricky to model these interactions, limiting the accuracy of drug design. In a recent paper in The Journal of Chemical Physics, from AIP Publishing, William A. Goddard III...
Forget about dark matter and dark energy, new research suggests that the existence of 'dark fluid' may solve some of the biggest mysteries in physics.
Saturn is losing its rings – the one feature that has defined the planet ever since humans first gazed upon them in the 1600s, the journal Physics is reporting. In fact, so quickly are they disappearing that the space community is calling it a...
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Pedestrians are constantly avoiding collisions with oncoming people. Meters in advance they unconsciously change their walkway to pass each other. Physicists at Eindhoven University of Technology in collaboration with American and Italian...
MIT researchers invented a method of shrinking objects to the nanoscale. The team can generate structures one-thousandth the volume of the original using a variety of materials, including metals, quantum dots, and DNA. […]
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Another day, another Avengers: Endgame theory. One of the biggest questions surrounding the film is who is going to rescue Tony Stark from drifting in space. Other questions ponder how Scott Lang will escape the Quantum Realm, but the biggest...
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Enlarge / LIGO's February 11, 2016, press conference in Washington, DC, where they announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves. (credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
Just last month, we told you about a small group of Danish...
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Tim May, physicist, libertarian-Randian, cypherpunk revolutionary, has died. Here is his Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto first published in 1992.
A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy.
Computer technology is on the verge...
A doctoral student has recently published intriguing new research which has detailed a very simple and elegant design for a time machine. But could it work and is time travel really possible? According to physics professor Gaurav Khanna, from the...
After the Avengers: Endgame trailer debuted a week ago, it became evident that Scott Lang (Ant-Man) escapes the Quantum Realm. Fans will remember he became stranded in the realm at the end of Ant-Man and The Wasp after Hank Pym, Hope Van Dyne, and...
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Researchers have invented a new way to fabricate nanoscale 3D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials, including metals, semiconducting quantum dots, and DNA.
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A new quantum algorithm has been implemented for quantum chemical calculations such as Full-CI on quantum computers without exponential/combinatorial explosion, giving exact solutions of Schroedinger Equations for atoms and molecules, for the first...
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New detections and analysis of gravitational waves – announced Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop in College Park, Maryland – broaden scientists’ understanding of the entire population of stellar-mass...
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Magnetic field lines tangled like spaghetti in a bowl might be behind the most powerful particle accelerators in the universe. That’s the result of a new computational study by researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National...
Quantum leaps in both data and computing power have given big companies a consistent edge in raising capital more cheaply, a study finds.
Given all the bromides about small business being the engine of job creation, it may sound jarring to hear that...
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On December 10, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to scientists Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland in Stockholm.
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A group of physicists from the National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI) and the Prokhorov General Physics Institute has suggested a method to discover hidden tooth enamel microcracks and areas of pathogenic microflora accumulation using...
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MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials, including metals, quantum dots, and DNA.
Related topics: Quantum, DNA, Genetics