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Even Black Holes Can Get Indigestion. Unsurprisingly, Their Farts Are ‘Massive’ Expulsions of Gas (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: black holes, gas expulsion, high-res imaging

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The physics of fizz: why some bubbles are louder than others (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: physics, bubbles, internet explorer

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Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Matt Von Hippel | tags: muon g–2, brookhaven national laboratory, fermilab

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Physicists turn particles in chaotic orbits into liquid computers — but this fluid hardware still trails memristor rivals (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-26 | by Luke James | tags: liquid computers, memristor reservoirs, chaotic orbits

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What Happens if You Cut a Photon in Half? The Answer Is Trippy (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: photon, quantum physics, light

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Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: black hole, physics, room decor

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What happens when you try to chop a photon in half? (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: photon reflection, quantum physics, arxiv.org

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The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting Its Biggest Upgrade Yet. What Comes Next Could Change Physics (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: large hadron collider, particle accelerator, physics

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Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: jelly ui, web components, soft-body physics

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James Webb Space Telescope Discovers How Black Holes Feed Themselves (slashdot.org)

2026-07-19 | by Posted | tags: james webb telescope, black holes, space exploration

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Order of Magnitude Physics a Textbook with Applications to the Retinal Rod(1998) [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | tags: order of magnitude, retinal rod, physics textbook

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Astronomers Found the First Atmosphere on a Planet in Another Star’s Habitable Zone (cnet.com)

2026-07-18 | by See Full Bio | tags: exoplanet, lhs 1140b, harvard center for astrophysics

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AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: code, game, original

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Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: material, materials, models

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Counting ArXiv Delays (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: cond mat, math, physics

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Quantum mechanics once baffled scientists. Now it's changing the world (sciencedaily.com)

2026-07-05 | tags: century, mechanics, particles

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Man Vanishes After Mysterious Experiments With Quantum Physics (futurism.com)

2026-07-03 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: los alamos national laboratory, quantum physics, quantum superposition

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Can you actually do a nine-to-five PhD? <i>Nature</i> readers weigh in (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-02 | by Woodrow | tags: quantum computing, optical approaches, particle physics

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Claude’s Solution to Decades-Long Math Mystery Is ‘Essentially Correct,’ Physicists Say (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-01 | get Mathematics Puzzle Book → | tags: claude, physicists, mathematical problem

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Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-01 | get Box3D Physics Engine → | tags: box3d, box2d, unreal engine

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Announcing Box3D :: Box2D (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-01 | get Box2D Physics Engine Book → | tags: box3d, box2d, unreal engine

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Drive Slower, Save Money on Gas. Thanks, Physics! (wired.com)

2026-07-01 | by Rhett Allain | get Eco-Friendly Car Accessories → | tags: internal-combustion vehicles, gas prices, physics

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What Breaks a Cell's Ribs Can Make It Stronger (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | by Jake Buehler | tags: cell division, microtubules, spindle apparatus

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Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | by Tejasri Gururaj | get Water Molecular Structure Kit → | tags: liquid water, two-state model, xiao cheng zeng

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Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | by Piotr Migdał | tags: qwen 3.6, 27b, mixture-of-experts

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Earth Could Survive the Sun’s Bloated Death Stage, But There’s a Catch (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-29 | tags: earth, sun, planetary survival

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Why have papers by one of history's most famous physicists been retracted? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-26 | tags: physicist, paper retraction, scientific publishing

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Behold Our Best View Yet of the Milky Way’s Massive Galactic Bulge (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-24 | get Night Sky Star Projector → | tags: milky way, galactic bulge, astronomy

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Edsger Dijkstra's Library (Housed and Archived in Leuven, Belgium) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-24 | get Dijkstra's Algorithm Book → | tags: dijkstra, leuven, eric temple bell

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75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-23 | by Byron Hurd | get Heavy Duty Truck Model → | tags: suvs, pedestrian fatalities, vehicle dimensions