Category: Physics

Death, Physics and Wishful Thinking – Scientific American

Our quirky minds thwart psychologists’ efforts to find durable theories. But terror-management theory has held up quite well since three psychologists proposed…

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How Strong Is King Kong? And Could He Even Stand Up?

In physics, big things are not like small things. Here’s what that means for a giant gorilla. It’s time for…

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Coherent nuclear excitations

From atomic clocks to secure communication to quantum computers: these developments are based on the increasingly better control of the…

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Can physics prove if God exists?

I still believed in God (I am now an atheist) when I heard the following question at a seminar, first…

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Learning physics from migrating bacteria – Physics World

Myxococcus xanthus is a rod-shaped soil bacterium with the ability to move on surfaces. Under starvation conditions, individually migrating bacteria switch…

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