What Would You See If You Fell Into a Black Hole?
This is all hypothetical, of course, but imagine you’re about to fall into a black hole. What would…
All Non-Avian Dinosaurs Died From the Asteroid 65 Million Years Ago. How Did Crocodiles Make It Out Alive?
Surprisingly enough, the closest living relatives to all dinosaurs—and, by extension, all living birds—are the crocodilians. Despite this,…
What Happens If We Slow Down Light?
Most of us would not know precisely how fast light is, but it is not surprising to most…
Researchers Unveil Simple Theory for “Strange Metal” Behavior
Aavishkar Patel and his team from the Flatiron Institute‘s Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) in New York…
Wormholes Can Exist—Or At Least Quantum Computers Say So
Using intricate manipulation of quantum bits known as “qubits” stored in minuscule circuits, researchers successfully sent information through…
Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis
Imagine you have a line with all the positive whole numbers on it. Can mathematics reveal any patterns…
The Theory of (Almost) Everything (For Now)
Elementary particles and fundamental forces weave together the fabric of reality in what scientists call the Standard Model…
The Four-Color Theorem
The Four-Color Theorem is an intriguing mathematical puzzle rooted in graph theory and map coloring. This timeless problem…
How Old Are Saturn’s Rings?
The Earth is roughly 4.5 billion years old, and researchers seem to agree that the planets of the…
Keeping You Up to Speed With Distance Derivatives
Most of you would be familiar with the concept of distance, and how speed is computed for given…