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Scientists Just Made the Most Accurate Clock Even Better #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #AccurateClock #Timekeeping #Innovation
Scientists Just Made the Most Accurate Clock Even Better
UCLA physicists have developed a new thin film that uses far less of the rare thorium-229 while also being significantly less radioactive, making it a safer and more practical alternative for atomic clocks....
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March 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #PhysicsExperiments #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation
AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”
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August 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Engineered Ice Disks Race Across Plates, Inspired by Death Valley’s Sliding Stones #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #SlidingStones #IceDisks #PhysicsInNature
Engineered Ice Disks Race Across Plates, Inspired by Death Valley’s Sliding Stones
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August 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Cambridge Physicists Pioneer Atomically-Thin Quantum Magnetic Sensors #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #QuantumSensors #Nanotechnology #Magnetism
Cambridge Physicists Pioneer Atomically-Thin Quantum Magnetic Sensors
Cambridge researchers created a quantum sensor using hBN, offering improved magnetic field detection over diamond-based sensors with new imaging possibilities. A team of physicists at the University of...
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June 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Magnets Could Become the Next Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #GravitationalWaves #MagnetTechnology #PhysicsResearch
Magnets Could Become the Next Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors
When Einstein's predicted ripples in spacetime pass through magnetic fields, they cause the current carrying wires to dance at the gravitational wave frequency, creating potentially detectable electrical...
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July 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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US Startup Claims It Can Make Gold Using Fusion Technology #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #FusionEnergy #GoldSynthesis #InnovativeTechnology
US Startup Claims It Can Make Gold Using Fusion Technology
Could alchemy be real?
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July 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Physicists Uncover Forgotten 1938 Fusion Breakthrough That Could Power the Future #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #FusionEnergy #SustainablePower #PhysicsBreakthrough
Physicists Uncover Forgotten 1938 Fusion Breakthrough That Could Power the Future
Physicists confirm DT fusion insights from a 1938 experiment. The findings connect past theory with current fusion efforts. A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has successfully recreated a significant...
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July 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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How a 24-Year-Old Collider Is Powering the Next Big Physics Frontier #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #ParticlePhysics #ColliderTechnology #ScientificFrontiers
How a 24-Year-Old Collider Is Powering the Next Big Physics Frontier
Physicists use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to test key accelerator strategies for the cutting-edge Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). When constructing a cutting-edge particle collider like the...
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April 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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These centuries-old equations predict flowing fluid – until they don’t #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #FluidDynamics #PhysicsResearch #MathematicsInScience
These centuries-old equations predict flowing fluid – until they don’t
We use the Navier-Stokes equations every day, for applications from building rockets to designing drugs. But sometimes they break – and we don’t know why
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August 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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The Secret Intelligence of Ink: Physicists Solve a Fluid Mechanics Mystery #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #FluidDynamics #PhysicsInInk #EngineeringMystery
The Secret Intelligence of Ink: Physicists Solve a Fluid Mechanics Mystery
Researchers discovered that ink in a soap-and-milk experiment follows the path of least resistance due to surface tension interactions. What began as a demonstration of the complexity of fluid systems...
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February 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Columbia Engineers Develop Radiation-Hardened Chips for the Large Hadron Collider #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #LargeHadronCollider #RadiationHardened #ColumbiaEngineering
Columbia Engineers Develop Radiation-Hardened Chips for the Large Hadron Collider
In one of the most extreme environments on Earth—the Large Hadron Collider—normal electronics fail almost instantly. But engineers at Columbia University have created custom microchips that not only...
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July 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Sheep, soldiers, and grains: Studying the physics of crowds #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #CrowdDynamics #PhysicsInSociety #ComplexSystems
Sheep, soldiers, and grains: Studying the physics of crowds
In Pamplona, where the bulls run, a scientist studies the physics of crowds. (Image credit: Ari Daniel)
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October 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The physicist trying to build humanity's lunar future with moon dirt #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #Moon #Regolith #LunarExploration
The physicist trying to build humanity's lunar future with moon dirt
When it comes to sending humans back to the moon, knowing how to work with the regolith that coats the ground will be make-or-break. Phil Metzger is studying how to mitigate its dangers and use it as...
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January 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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AI is pushing the limits of the physical world #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #AI #Innovation
AI is pushing the limits of the physical world
Architecture often assumes a binary between built projects and theoretical ones. What physics allows in actual buildings, after all, is vastly different from what architects can imagine and design (often...
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April 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Chasing New Physics With A Sharper Molecular Ruler Today #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #NewPhysics #MolecularRuler #AppliedPhysics
Chasing New Physics With A Sharper Molecular Ruler Today
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September 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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From 900 miles away, the US government recorded audio of the Titan sub implosion #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #TitanSubmarine #SubmarineImplosion #AcousticAnalysis
From 900 miles away, the US government recorded audio of the Titan sub implosion
Thanks to being an incompressible medium, water transmits vibrations both farther and faster than the air. (Here's a good video explainer on the subject.) This fact helps to explain how a US government-owned
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February 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Scientists Build First-Ever 'Black Hole Bomb' Analog #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #BlackHoleBomb #Astrophysics #PhysicsResearch
Scientists Build First-Ever 'Black Hole Bomb' Analog
We can explain.
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May 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Electron Beam Turns Adamantane Into Diamonds at Room Temperature #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #Diamonds #ElectronBeam #MaterialsScience
Electron Beam Turns Adamantane Into Diamonds at Room Temperature
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September 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Scientists Found an Entirely New Way to Measure Time #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #TimeMeasurement #InnovativeScience #PhysicsResearch
Scientists Found an Entirely New Way to Measure Time
Your time starts now.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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‘Really rich physics going on’: the science behind a flat pint of lager #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #PhysicsInBeer #FluidDynamics #LagerScience
‘Really rich physics going on’: the science behind a flat pint of lager
Research reveals why single fermentation beers sometimes lack the thick, stable foam of other pub favourites A flat pint of beer with no head is a common gripe among pub-goers. And while the bar staff’s...
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August 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Water squeezed into 2D channels conducts electricity 100,000 times better #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #ElectricityConductivity #Nanotechnology #2DMaterials
Water squeezed into 2D channels conducts electricity 100,000 times better
Network of quasi-2D hydrogen bonding may be responsible for effect
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October 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Liquid or Solid? The Strange Physics of Ranch Dressing #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #PhysicsInDailyLife #FoodScience #RanchDressing
Liquid or Solid? The Strange Physics of Ranch Dressing
Is Ranch Dressing a Liquid or a Solid? Imagine you’re sitting down for dinner. You pick up a bottle of ranch dressing, flip it upside down, and expect it to pour onto your plate. But nothing happens....
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March 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Physicists using antimatter, supercomputers and giant magnets solve 20-year-old mystery #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #Antimatter #Supercomputers #Magnetism
Physicists using antimatter, supercomputers and giant magnets solve 20-year-old mystery
Physicists are always searching for new theories to improve our understanding of the universe and resolve big unanswered questions. But there’s a problem. How do you search for undiscovered forces or...
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June 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Baffling Scientists for Centuries: New Study Unravels Mystery of Static Electricity #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #StaticElectricity #PhysicsResearch #ScienceMystery
Baffling Scientists for Centuries: New Study Unravels Mystery of Static Electricity
ISTA physicists demonstrate that contact electrification depends on the contact history of materials. For centuries, static electricity has intrigued and perplexed scientists. Now, researchers from the...
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March 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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ITER Just Completed the Magnet That Could Cage the Sun #Science #Physics #AppliedPhysicsandEngineering #ITER #FusionEnergy #SustainableFuture
ITER Just Completed the Magnet That Could Cage the Sun
In a breakthrough for sustainable energy, the international ITER project has completed the components for the world’s largest superconducting magnet system, designed to confine a superheated plasma...
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May 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM