In quantum mechanics particles can behave as waves and take many paths through an experiment. It requires only combinations of pairs of paths, rather than three or more, to determine the probability for a particle to arrive ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 11, 2017
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Ever wonder what it would feel like to unplug from a hyperconnected world and hide away in a dark cave for 40 days?
Other
Apr 24, 2021
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Physicists sometimes come up with crazy stories that sound like science fiction. Some turn out to be true, like how the curvature of space and time described by Einstein was eventually borne out by astronomical measurements. ...
General Physics
May 6, 2022
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At the regional level and worldwide, the occurrence of large shallow earthquakes appears to follow a mathematical pattern called the Devil's Staircase, where clusters of earthquake events are separated by long but irregular ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 14, 2020
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Language patterns could be predicted by simple laws of physics, a new study has found.
General Physics
Jul 24, 2017
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In a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, archaeologists from Université de Montréal and the University of Genoa reveal that far from being more primitive, Neanderthals did much the same as ...
Archaeology
Apr 8, 2024
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Artificial intelligence has revealed that prehistoric footprints thought to be made by a vicious dinosaur predator were in fact from a timid herbivore.
Paleontology & Fossils
Nov 15, 2022
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501
Is honesty really the best policy? Isn't it more beneficial to cheat, if you can get away with it?
Plants & Animals
Jul 4, 2016
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1077
A new Dartmouth-Stanford study examining the economic impact of a border wall expansion between the U.S. and Mexico between 2007 to 2010 finds that the expansion minimally reduced unauthorized Mexican migration and was largely ...
Economics & Business
Nov 19, 2018
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Physicists have long struggled to explain why the universe started out with conditions suitable for life to evolve. Why do the physical laws and constants take the very specific values that allow stars, planets and ultimately ...
General Physics
Nov 22, 2022
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