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What % Physicist Are You?
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Prove that you know the language of the physical world. Does your understanding of natural phenomena start or stop at E=MC^2? Find out what it takes to think like the physics lords who came before us!
Physicists Make a Splash With a Urinal That Doesn't
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Splish-splash is not the sound you want to hear when you're standing in front of a urinal. A new design is being touted as the answer to the splashless pee.
Time May Not Exist, Say Some Physicists and Philosophers
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The answer to the question "Does time exist?" may seem obvious, but is it? And what if time doesn't exist, but is merely a human construct?
The Enigma of 137: Science's Most Magical Number
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The number 137, which is significant in multiple applications, has long been an object of fascination for physicists, mathematicians and mystics.
Physics Displacement Formula: How to Calculate Displacement
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Physicists use the displacement formula to find an object's change in position. It sounds simple, but calculating displacement can quickly get complicated.
Does a Parallel Universe Really Exist?
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Remember that traffic accident you avoided the other day? In another universe, you died. Or at least you did according to the Many-Worlds theory.
Quantum Entanglement Is the Strangest Phenomenon in Physics, But What Is It?
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Einstein famously called the phenomenon "spooky action at a distance," and physicists just won the Nobel Prize for their work on it, but what is quantum entanglement?
Hedwig Kohn: The Physics of Determination
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Hedwig Kohn left Nazi Germany for the U.S. in 1940 and became a leading physicist. HowStuffWorks looks at her extraordinary life.
What is supersymmetry?
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Supersymmetry just might explain how the tiniest parts of the cosmos work. Learn more about what supersymmetry is at HowStuffWorks.
Scientists Prove Schrodinger's Cat Can Be in Two Places at Once
A bunch of Yale physicists decided to give Schrodinger's cat not one but two boxes. And that, strangely enough, could eventually prove handy for quantum computing.