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In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...

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NASA’s flagship X-ray observatory is starting the calendar with a flourish, unveiling a richly detailed view of a distant ...

Just 25 light-years from Earth, astronomers have watched a planetary system tear itself apart in real time, catching the dusty aftermath of violent impacts that were once only theoretical. Instead of ...

A Little Physics Roguelike’s demo is short but promising. Here’s The Escapist’s first impressions of the A Little Physics ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development of computational models inspired by the brain's layered organization, also ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

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Ufotable digs into the technical and artistic magic that propelled the film's generational battle between Tanjiro and Akaza.

Through Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, junior physics major Joao Passos is studying brown dwarfs — objects bigger than planets but smaller than stars — ...

Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at its most fundamental level. A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very ...