Web life: Gravity and Levity
Tackling the big ideas in physics in a deep but often mathematically simple way
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Tackling the big ideas in physics in a deep but often mathematically simple way
Read article: Web life: Gravity and Levity
Breakthrough could lead to measurements of quantum-state evolution due to gravity
Read article: Experiment is first to see kicking photons heat up nanoparticles
Glass nanostructures etched using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses promise to keep vast quantities of data for billions of years
Read article: Keeping our data safe: optical memory enters the 5D realm
Orbital angular-momentum states transmitted between Canary Islands
Read article: Twisted light beams sent 143 km across the sea
Nathan Myhrvold at loggerheads with astrophysicists over asteroid analysis
Read article: NASA hits back at millionaire in asteroid spat
Janna Levin’s Black Hole Blues describes the search for gravitational waves in a fun and human fashion, but Mark Hannam thinks the topic deserves more
Read article: A space–time operetta
Emitted light is exceedingly directional and could be useful for high-resolution microscopes
Read article: Lasers transform infrared into broadband white light
NASA is designing an ambitious near-infrared space observatory with a field of view up to 200 times greater than that of Hubble
Read article: Widening our view of the universe: NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope
Stephen Hawking and colleagues claim partial solution to 40-year-old puzzle
Read article: Soft hairs help resolve the black-hole information paradox
Electrosensory capability helps insects to find flowers, say researchers
Read article: Bumble-bees use their fuzz to detect electric fields