Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Usually, when something gets warmed up, heat tends to spread outward before eventually dissipating. But things are a little different in the world of superfluid quantum gas. For the first time, MIT scientists have successfully imaged how heat actually travels in a wave, known as a “second sound,” through this exotic …
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One-in-70-Trillion: An Evolutionary Biologist Explains the Mind-Bending Probability of Our Existence – Open Culture
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Read More »I’ve played every Mario Party game in existence, but I’ll be avoiding the Switch 2 version of Jamboree this week
Just moments ago, my Nintendo Switch 2 copy of No Sleep For Kaname Date was dropped off at my front door, and even though it’s a Game Key Card, as a physical game collector, I didn’t hesitate to add it to my collection – but in the case of Super Mario Jamboree, I’d much rather save my cash. The brand-new …
Read More »What are these strange swirls around an infant star? ‘We may be watching a planet come into existence in real time’
Astronomers have seen what appears to be a forming planet carving out a complex pattern in a disk of gas and dust around a young star. The discovery of this spiral architect could help us better understand how planetary systems like the solar system came to be. The infant extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,” is creating a spiral arm pattern in …
Read More »‘Eddington’ Captures the Chaos of the COVID Era—and Modern Existence
MoviesMoviesIn Ari Aster’s most direct social commentary yet, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal go to battle over a small town while the world around it implodes A24/Ringer illustration By Adam NaymanJuly 17, 11:58 am UTC • 9 min “Your Being Manipulated!” a partisan bumper sticker reads in Eddington. The hapless misuse of a possessive adjective suggests that the candidate being …
Read More »Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of Time Reflections
“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For more than 50 years, scientists theorized that an electromagnetic wave could be reflected temporally—not just spatially. Scientists have been unable to confirm the existence of time reflection due to the amount of energy required to …
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