Deposit morphologies for a settling particle. When increasing either the injection volume or the settling height, the deposit radius increases. […]
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Did Hilma af Klint draw inspiration from 19th century physics?
Diagrams from Thomas Young’s 1807 Lectures bear striking resemblance to abstract figures in af Klint’s work. Hilma af Klint’s Group […]
Why solving crosswords is like a phase transition
There’s also the more recent concept of “explosive percolation,” whereby connectivity emerges not in a slow, continuous process but quite […]
Delve into the physics of the Hula-Hoop
High-speed video of experiments on a robotic hula hooper, whose hourglass form holds the hoop up and in place. Some […]
Ten cool science stories we almost missed
Skip to content Bronze Age combat, moral philosophy and Reddit’s AITA, Mondrian’s fractal tree, and seven other fascinating papers. There […]
The physics of ugly Christmas sweaters
In 2018, a team of French physicists developed a rudimentary mathematical model to describe the deformation of a common type […]
Could microwaved grapes be used for quantum sensing?
The microwaved grape trick also shows their promise as alternative microwave resonators for quantum sensing applications, according to the authors […]