physics
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Hedy LaMarr: The Movie Star Who Invented Bluetooth… in 1942.
A movie star. An avant-garde composer. A radio-controlled torpedo. Wi-Fi. One of the unfortunate truths about our web of modern…
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Parity Girl: The Experimental Physics of Chien-Shiung Wu
How does a neutrino sign its name? Sometimes it’s only the truly absurd questions that can break physics from its…
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Emmy Noether Solves the Universe.
“Momentum is always conserved, except when it isn’t.” In high school physics, we learn all manner of conservation laws, one…
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A toast to sparkling wine!
New Year’s Eve is upon us, which means it’s time to break open the bubbly! Want to drop a little…
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Sex, Cards, and Calculus: The Life of Émilie du Châtelet
In popular mythology, the 1687 publication of Newton’s Principia was the culminating moment when one human told the world how…
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Hot Cocoa to help Light the Night
Congratulations to the Skepchick teams for raising over $2,500 for Light the Night and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society! I…
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Man of Steel a Superman Science Review
Man of Steel was released a couple of weeks ago and I had the chance to see it. I liked…
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Does the Size of Your Skull Affect Your Taste in Music?
A few weeks ago, a group of scientists from William Paterson University came together to ask an incredibly novel, yet…
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