You know that feeling when everyone tells you something is impossible, so you never even try? That is what happened in chemistry for a hundred years. Students memorized a rule, one called Bredt’s rule, and then everyone obeyed it. Professors taught it. Nobody questioned it. And it was wrong. The team of chemists behind this study didn’t set out to …
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In a striking display of quantum physics, a team of researchers has recreated one of science’s most legendary experiments—with unprecedented precision. At MIT, scientists cooled thousands of atoms to nearly absolute zero, arranged them in a neat lattice using laser light, and then used those atoms to scatter individual photons of light. The experiment is a modern version of the …
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists performing what they described as an “idealized” version of the infamous double-slit experiment, showing light exists as both a particle and a wave, a core component of quantum physics, have confirmed the original test’s results and proven that a related proposal about light’s dual nature from famed scientist Albert Einstein was wrong. The MIT …
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A breakthrough by Penn State student Divya Tyagi has brought new life to a century-old mathematical problem, offering a fresh solution with major implications for wind turbine design and renewable energy. Tyagi, a graduate student in aerospace engineering, has refined an equation originally introduced by British aerodynamicist Hermann Glauert, which could reshape the future of wind energy. Revamping a 100-Year-Old …
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