Chilled drinks calculator, the mathematics of cooking a steak, physics-related screensavers
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope assembled for the first time
Milestone as the two halves of NASA’s $8.8bn next-generation telescope are fitted together
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Happy 30th birthday to CERN’s Large Electron–Positron collider, a shed-load of knowledge about the composition of the universe
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Physics of that triple-double somersault, using Earth’s atmosphere as a giant telescope, reproducing DAMA’s mysterious dark matter signal
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Water bears on the Moon, tricky maths problem, and an atomic tipple
A selection of stories from the quirkier side of physics this week
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Glaciologist Princess Elsa, fluid dynamics of giant bubbles, and the physics of an ‘epic’ baseball pitch
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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The science of baking, making physics more diverse, and the invisibility of length contraction
The August 2019 issue of Physics World is now out in print, digitally and via the app
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Moon of many faces
Sarah Tesh picks out some alternative views of the Moon
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Robot tests padel racquets, mountains nearly derailed physics career, the skyscraper that did not blow down
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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Microbes and the Moon
Michael Hill-King explores why the Apollo 11 astronauts were quarantined on their return to Earth
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