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How To Solve Any Problem Using Enrico Fermi’s Back-Of-The-Envelope Math (And Some Common Sense)

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of ...
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A 2007 gravity glitch might have changed Earth’s behavior

In 2007, satellites detected an unusual gravity anomaly originating from deep within the Earth, suggesting rapid changes near ...

Using entanglement to test whether gravity is quantum just got more complicated

Unifying gravity and quantum theory remains a significant goal in modern physics. Despite the success in unifying all other ...

The Most Vexing Variable in the Search for E.T.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Technique allows estimation of the force acting on each grain of sand in a dune

Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images ...
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Does gravity produce quantum weirdness? Proposal divides physicists

A theoretical study suggests that gravity could have quantum effects without itself being a quantum theory. Other researchers ...