Nature
09/11/2024 - 14:13
Both Darwin and the ship’s Captain, Robert FitzRoy, were deeply concerned with which books to take on board and how to fit as many as... →
21/02/2023 - 14:58
For many of us, life seems to progress smoothly and predictably for much of the time. Indeed, it seems one of our biggest concerns appears... →
29/06/2022 - 13:21
I asked Professor Oesch if he felt personally connected to this tiny smudge on his computer screen. Does this faint blob feel like part of... →
13/01/2019 - 18:14
The plants’ “ear” is simple: the flower petals themselves, which vibrate when sound waves at the frequency produced by pollinators’ wings... →
31/10/2018 - 12:59
“We are sleepwalking towards the edge of a cliff” said Mike Barrett, executive director of science and conservation at WWF. “If there... →
22/12/2016 - 22:14
The role of shepherding this massive effort made use of Gonzalez’s multidimensional talents. Most physicists know early on whether they... →
02/10/2016 - 12:28
Time in Classical and Quantum Mechanics
In classical physics, time is absolute and invariable. All clocks tick at the same rate and... →
22/03/2016 - 16:45
When the Universe as we know it — full of matter and radiation — began, it began with a few strange properties that didn’t necessarily have... →
25/12/2015 - 18:34
•Физики полагают, что в будущем году у них есть шанс получить первые доказательства существования гравитационных волн благодаря Лазеро-... →
31/07/2014 - 22:39
In the jargon it's an "Anthropocene defaunation," or sixth mass extinction, and one caused by humans. Scientists can't be sure of the... →
21/03/2014 - 15:51
By comparison to the world of physics, the methods and theory of comparative genomics and evolutionary biology are used to investigate the... →
24/01/2014 - 17:50
Equations aren't the only hints of mathematics that are built into nature: there are also numbers. As opposed to human creations like the... →