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Newly discovered 'einstein' tile is a 13-sided shape that solves a decades-old math problem
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoComputer generated image of concentric rings around a central shaded hat (dark blue). Look...
Shayne Looper: Scientists long for meaning, too
Sturgis Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIf I understand him correctly, the theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind, who teaches at Stanford, contends that matter entering a black hole is...
Nobel laureates sound alarm as Argentina cuts science funding
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSixty-eight Nobel laureates in chemistry, medicine, economics, and physics sent a letter on...
Nobel Prize in Physics: 1901-Present
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn illustration of gravitational waves. According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the...
Quantum Physics Could Finally Explain Consciousness, Scientists Say
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThe nature of consciousness and the measurement problem in quantum physics remain two of the...
The most anti-science belief you can hold is that science is a religion
Salon via Yahoo News· 1 month agoEye of the universe, concept Getty Images/ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI “Fringe”, “weird” and “unthinkable” are...
Juicing power from the abyss: How black hole batteries could be the energy of the (distant) future
Salon via Yahoo News· 5 months agoBlack hole Getty Images/Petrovich9 Black holes, despite their name, are far from being an empty...
'Oppenheimer' fact v. fiction: What the movie got right and wrong according to a nuclear historian
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 months agoJ. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.Bettmann/Getty Images Warning: Minor spoilers ahead for...
Mathematicians end decades-long quest to find elusive 'vampire einstein' shape
Live Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoResearchers have discovered a new 14-sided shape called the Spectre that can be used to tile a...
An impossibly huge ring of galaxies might lead us to new physics. Here's how
Space via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA view of the sky with one dotted blue circle toward the top center and a dotted red art to the...